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Bernard Carlon | Opening address
Divisional Director | Sustainability Programs
NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change

For 25 years Bernard has led sustainability policy and programs in community and Government organisations, including Health, Community Safety and the Environment. In his role as Divisional Director, Bernard is responsible for the NSW Environmental Trust, the NSW Climate Change Fund and the delivery of sustainability programs for State and local Government, community organisations, business, and households.

www.environment.nsw.gov.au

July 06, 2009, 7:17am

Alan Saunders | ABC Radio ‘By Design’
MC and panel chair

Alan Saunders was born and educated in London. He studied philosophy at the University of Leicester, where he was also president of the students’ union, and Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He came to Australia in 1981 to pursue research in the History of Ideas Unit at the Australian National University and was subsequently awarded a PhD.

Having joined the Science Unit of ABC Radio National in 1987, Alan Saunders founded The Food Program. From 1997 to 2004, he was the presenter of Radio National’s The Comfort Zone, a weekly review of architecture and design, landscape and food and in 2005 he was co-presenter of Saturday Breakfast. He now presents By Design and The Philosopher’s Zone for the station.

Alan has written about food and other topics for various publications. He is the author of A is for Apple (Random House) and his first novel, Alanna, was published by Penguin in 2002. He is in demand as a public speaker and has been a judge for many food, architectural and design awards.

In 1992 Alan Saunders was awarded the Pascall Prize for critical writing and broadcasting.

www.abc.net.au/rn/bydesign/about/

July 06, 2009, 7:15am

Described as the “David Suzuki of of design”, David’s 25 years of experience and technique have helped hundreds of organizations get great things done. The combination of his inspiration and techniques motivate people to create unique and ecologically-responsible strategy, events, branding, design, ethics, and communications solutions.

His career as an expert speaker, facilitator, communications strategist, judge, and graphic and environmental designer has involved him in developing dozens of events in over 18 countries: Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hong Kong, Hungary, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Slovenia, UK, and USA. His clients include IBM, International Space Station, World Bank, Norwegian Design Council, the Aga Khan Foundation, Environment Canada, Health Canada, Parks Canada, Statistics Canada, and Treasury Board.

In 1999, the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada named him a Fellow for his  eco-friendly Code of Ethics. David was elected V.P. Ethics of the Society in 2000, and since has served as Ethics Chair. In 2005, he became a Vice-President of Icograda, the World body for graphic design, which organizes global conferences. His opinions have been featured on CBC, in Financial Post and Marketing. David is a National Professional Member of CAPS and the International Federation for Professional Speakers.

www.davidberman.com

July 06, 2009, 7:12am

Rick Poynor is a writer on design, media and visual culture. He was the founding editor of Eye magazine, and is a contributing editor and columnist of Print magazine in New York. In 2003 he co-founded Design Observer, which rapidly became a leading design weblog. He lectures internationally on design matters and has been a Visiting Professor and a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2002 he researched and edited a special issue of Eye about Australian graphic design. Poynor’s books include Typographica (2001), Obey the Giant (2001), an essay collection, No More Rules (2003), a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism, and Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties (2004) to accompany the “Communicate” exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, which he curated. His most recent book is Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice (2008), a study of the radical Dutch designer.

July 06, 2009, 7:11am

TBC.

www.researchstudios.com

July 06, 2009, 7:10am

David’s standing in the design community is reflected in his membership of Alliance Graphique Internationale. His work has been recognised with many awards and has appeared in numerous Australian and international graphic design publications. Originally from the United Kingdom, David studied fine arts there before settling in Australia.

After working in advertising and design he set up his own practice in 1976. He is still a practicing fine artist. With more than 25 years in the design industry, David’s experience encompasses a wide range of design disciplines including corporate identity programs, packaging, publication design, exhibition and environmental design. His clients have included Air New Zealand, Berri Estates, Kraft, Sportsgirl, Oberoi Hotels, Mitre 10, Parks Victoria, the Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Melbourne Museum, the Koorie Heritage Trust, APPM, Safeway and SOCOG. His ability to lift design solutions beyond the ordinary has produced many exciting and innovative projects. A former Victorian President of the Australian Graphic Design Association and President of the Melbourne Art Directors Club, David has served as a judge on many Award Committees and has also been a member of many Advisory Committees.

David has built an enviable reputation designing everything from a postage stamp to three dimensional exhibition spaces, but it is the more recent work in the area of interpretive design that has been awarded and praised by his peers. His vast experience in the interpretation of environmental, cultural and natural values and especially his collaboration with Indigenous cultures, has resulted in world class visitor centres in remote parts of Australia, including Bowali Visitor Centre and National Park Headquarters in Kakadu (N.T.), Warradjan Cultural Centre in Kakadu and the Karijini Visitor Centre in the Pilbara (W.A.).  He is also responsible for the Bunjilaka Visitor Centre at Melbourne Museum (Vic).

His experience in this area derives from his own extraordinary interest in forms of cultural diversity and capacity for understanding the natural environment.
Most recently, David was asked to join the board of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations).

David has had two sell out painting exhibitions prior to this show and his work is in private collections in France, UK, USA and Australia. He also has limited edition posters in the collections of V&A Museum in London, the Olympic Museum in Switzerland, and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

www.davidlancashiredesign.com.au

July 06, 2009, 7:09am

In 1994, Andy Polaine co-founded the award-winning new-media collective Antirom in London and worked with clients such as the BBC, The Science Museum and Levis Strauss and Co. (for which they won a D&AD Silver Pencil) as well exhibiting several interactive installations and performances around the world.

Andy was also a producer at dotcom giant Razorfish in the UK before moving to Australia where he started the interactive department of visual effects company, Animal Logic. He was a Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at the College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Head of the School of Media Arts.

Now living in Germany, Andy has been a Guest Professor at the Bauhaus University and continues to work as a lecturer (both online and face-to-face), interaction designer and writer and is completing a PhD examining interactivity and play. He is the founder and Editor of The Designer’s Review of Books: http://www.designersreviewofbooks.com and has published over 160 articles and papers as well as his own blog, Playpen: http://www.polaine.com/playpen. A regular speaker at a range of conferences and institutions he was recently a jury member for the Art Directors Club Interactive Awards in New York.

Thanks to all of that he no longer has any time to play anything other than the fool and the saxophone, sometimes simultaneously.

www.polaine.com

July 06, 2009, 7:07am

Voted one of the most influential designers of his time, Vince Frost has designed anything from postage stamps to the built environment. His body of works continue to receive hundreds of awards and accolades from around the globe.

Born in the UK and raised in Canada, Vince’s nomadic lifestyle has seen him live in 44 houses in 40 years. In 1989 he joined Pentagram in London and just three years later was their youngest Associate at 27. Two years later he had started his own London studio, Frost*Design, creating award-winning work for clients from The Independent newspaper to Nike.

Central to Frost’s philosophy is the value and power of the “Big Idea” – and the difference it can make to a business when correctly executed.

In 2003 Frost moved to Sydney Australia, heading up what is now a 40+ studio that works internationally across all areas of design – from logos to magazines, books, broadcast, advertising, packaging, digital and environments. Frost*Design continues to grow in scale and influence, and opened in Dubai in 2009.

Always looking for new ways of expressing his creativity, Frost has recently diversified into fashion design – creating t-shirt ranges that embody the studio’s unique talent for strong simple ideas that touch both the heart and mind.

www.frostdesign.com.au

July 06, 2009, 7:05am

Rick is a Senior Lecturer from the School of Design Studies at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales. He is also a visiting professor at De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts in Manilla and the founder and Director of The Omnium Research Group.

Raised in South London, and following ten years as a special effects designer in the UK film and TV industry, Rick Bennett joined the College of Fine Arts (COFA) at the University of New South Wales in 1993 as a member of academic staff based within the School of Design Studies.

In 1998, Rick founded Omnium, an ongoing research initiative that explores online collaborative creativity (OCC) in the visual arts. Five years later he was also appointed head of COFA Online: a newly formed academic unit established to design, produce and host fully-online education courses across a range of art and design disciplines. He is currently completing his PhD thesis at the University of Sydney, titled ‘Drawing on The Virtual Collective.’

Over the last decade Rick’s work through Omnium has evolved from directing numerous global online creative projects, (including some in collaboration with ICOGRADA) to a recent series of community outreach projects to help artisans and craftworkers in less fortunate parts of the world.

Such projects have included designing visual public awareness campaigns of critical health issues for villagers in Kenya and Uganda, as well as producing contemporary designs for urban installations and home-ware products made by embroiderers and woodworkers in remote, rural regions of the Philippines.

www.omnium.net.au

July 06, 2009, 7:04am