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Founder / Director since 2005.
Vert Design is a Sydney-based studio and design house consisted of a dynamic team of designers who combine the experience of a commercial design practice with the innovation of a small production house. The studio operates as a testing ground for new concepts and self-initiated experimentation, as well as offering design concepts, modelling, prototyping and manufacturing to clients from niche boutique brands, to multinational organisations.
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Director since 2010.
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Director since 2014.
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Director since 2010.
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Member since 2012.
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Director since 2014
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Co-founder and Director since 2023
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Vert Design – Founder/ Director, 2005 - present.
Best Practice Plastics – Director, 2010 - present.
Bestaxx – Director, 2010 - present.
Balmain Boat Company- Director, 2010 - present.
Supercyclers – Member, 2012 - present.
Cyclonas – Director, 2014 - present.
Sesura - Director, 2023.
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Back-Up - Co-founder and Director, 2023.
Accelerating Commercialisation Grant Aus industry - $357,330. 2017.
UNSW AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects Analysis and improved design of the fluid dynamics in a scroll compressor, 2016.
Transport for NSW - Sydney Metro Project - Designing the Meeting points and Help points, 2017/18.
Industrial design lead on Australia’s largest ever infrastructure project - Western Sydney Airport and Metro line, 2022.
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Honours and Awards
Australian Design Honours Recipient - Australian design Centre
2018
Churchill Fellowship - To investigate and gain knowledge of glass mould making and it’s application for art, craft and industrial application.
Good Design Award - Huskee Cup - Best is Class for Homeware and Object design
2016
Good Design Award - One Education Laptop - Finalist
2015
Good Design Award - O Six hundred Kayak: Best in Category For Sports and Recreation
2014
TecVoucher: ARC Linkage grant - $400k commercialization grant.
2013
D&AD Award - Alaskan Rock Vodka Packaging - Winner
2012
Good Design Awards - Bestaxx Bum Dum Plug: Best in Category For Medical and Scientific
2011
Designer in Residence Refraction Gaffa Gallery
2010
Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award - Stilla Carafe - Finalist
2005
UTS Union Creative Grant for 2005 to produce glass designs
Advisory & Mentorship
Course Development Advisory: ‘Theory and Method of Adaptive Reuse’ at UNSW Art and Design
Mentor at University of Sydney INCUBATE Programme
Advisory board: zaffyre international
Director on the board of the Australian Design Centre
Member of Leadership ThinkTank - CEO Peer Advisory Board
2017
Course Advisory Committee (IAC) - UTS: Integrated Product Design Course
2016
Course Advisory Committee - TAFE NSW: Bachelor of Design
2013
Course Advisory Committee - UNSW: Industrial design
Exhibitions
2019
Wasteland by Friends and Associate - Melbourne Design Week 2019 - Melbourne
2018
Plasticity - The alt. Material collective - Melbourne
Interpretations V : Paper - Australian design centre - Sydney
Sagitine Range - Local Milan No. 3 - Milan Design Week 2018 - Milan
2017
Interpretations V : Paper - As part of DESIGN-MADE Event - Sydney
26 Original Fakes by Friends and Associate - National Gallery of Victoria- Melbourne
2016
At Home: Modern Australian Design - The Old Government House - Sydney
Out of Hand - MAAS Museum of Arts and Science - Sydney
Local Design: Salone Del Mobile - Milan
2015
Local Design - Chippendale - Sydney
GLASS: Art, Design - He Made She Made Gallery - Sydney
For School - Tokyo Design Week - Tokyo
London Design Festival - London
2014
The Other Hemisphere: Salone Del Mobile - Milan
London Design Festival - London
2013
Masked Intentions - He Made She Made Gallery - Sydney
Interpretations IV: Stone - Sydney
2012
MAAS Museum’s annual selection from the Good Design Awards Bestaxx BumDum.
Supercyclers : Salone Del Mobile - Milan
2011
The Abandoned Boudoir: Beijing Design Week - Beijing
The Abandoned Boudoir: Taipei Design Festival - Taipei
In Good Company - Object Gallery - Sydney
Prototyping: Making Ideas - Jam Factory - Sydney
Interpretations III - Sand Casting - Sydney
2010
Re-Loved: Sydney Design Festival - Powerhouse Museum - Sydney
The Abandoned Boudoir: Bangkok design Festival - Bangkok
2009
‘no. 42’ Chair - Workshopped, - Sydney
Launch Pad - Melbourne Museum - Melbourne
Interpretations II: Sheet Metal - Sydney
So Buono! : A cultural design feast - Salone Del Mobile 2009 - Milan
So Buono! : A cultural design feast - State of Design 2009 - Melbourne
2008
Sydney Design - Powerhouse Museum - Sydney
2007
Interpretations I: Glass - Sydney
2005
Smart Arts Festival - Glass design - Sydney
2008
Sydney Design - Powerhouse Museum - Sydney
2007
Interpretations Sydney: Glass - Sydney
2005
Smart Arts Festival - Glass design - Sydney
Talks
2019
Designer Forum Series - University of Tasmania
Opening of UTS Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2018 - University of Technology Sydney
Shape Seminars at MAAS - Department of Education and Community
Opening of STEEL exhibition, On behalf of the board at Australian Design Centre - Sydney
2017
VIVID Ideas - ‘HAMDMADE - Back to Where We Started’ at Australian Design Centre
VIVID Ideas - ‘3D printing and Future Technologies Shaping Design’ Organised by DIA at Museum of Contemporary Art
DIA NSW Branch - Biomimicry in design
Shape Seminars at MAAS - Department of Education and Community
2016
PURPOSE Conference - Exploring the next wave of corporate culture.
‘Innovation 101’ - Series of talks organised by Michael Crouch Innovation centre at UNSW.
DIA NSW Design Mentor: Portfolio review night
Sydney Design Festival Launch Night
Shape Seminars at MAAS - Department of Education and Community
Vivid Ideas - ‘3D Printing & Future Technologies Shaping Design’ organised by Design Institution of Australia (DIA)
Vivid Ideas - ‘Factory design district’ curated by Kobe Johns
2015
Shape Seminars at MAAS - Department of Education and Community
2014
Vivid Ideas -‘Creative Ways to Change the World’- Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
3D Printing and possibilities Seminar - Department of Education and Community
2013
Vivid Ideas - ‘Design Emergency’ at the Australian design centre
2011
Idea Melbourne - Talking about design process at Melbourne Design festival
Vivid Ideas - ways of making: 3d printing – Sydney Opera House
Designer in Residence Refraction Gaffa Gallery, 2011
See Saw: Design Mentor Gaffa Gallery
Lectures
2019
Tutor - Final Year Design Studio- UNSW Industrial Design
2018
Tutor - Final Year Design Studio- UNSW Industrial Design
Tutor - ‘Distributed Manufacturing, Design and Sustainability’ Master of Design UTS -
Industrial Design
2017
Tutor - Design process - Final year studio - UNSW - Industrial design
Tutor - ‘Hybrid Crafting :Future Making’ Masters of Design – UNSW Art and Design
2016
Guest Lecturer - Industrial Design Practice - University Of Sydney
2015
Guest Lecturer - Integrated Product Design Thinking - UTS
2014
Guest Lecturer - EcoDesign Practice - UTS
2013
Professional Practice Lecturer - University of Technology Sydney
2012
Guest Lecturer - TAFE Lidcombe
2005
Sessional Lecturer - Glass Blowing - UTS