Talking Design is a fortnightly podcast review of design in all its facets - from architecture to industrial design, from fashion to automotive design. It features interviews with prominent designers and expert analysis from RMIT University academics. Talking Design is produced by experienced journalist Stephen Crafti and sponsored by RMIT.
Gordon and Susan Tait head up Tait, one of Australia's leading producers of outdoor furniture. Working with leading Australian designers, such as Trent Jansen creating designs, Tait established their…
Gregory Bonasera and Anthony Ramon are the names behind Porcelain Bear. Bonasera studied ceramics at Monash University and Anthony Ramond Industrial Design, also at Monash. The duo now specialise in …
Architect Jarrod Haberfield, director of Molecule brings art and architecture to the fore in this program. Haberfield shows how the two come together in an apartment his practice he reconfigured for …
Artist Natasha Johns-Messenger started her career studying painting at RMIT University before focusing on installation-based work, also completing her Masters Degree at University. Now based in New Y…
Jeff Provan studied engineering and later architecture at RMIT before venturing into his first developments in the mid-1980s. with then business partner Barry Ludlow, the duo rediscovered Melbourne's…
Nancy Bugeja, Managing Director of the HM Group and her business partner Miguel Valenzuela, Creative Director of HM first met while studying design at the Barton Institute. Graduating during the rece…
Siblings Alex and Georgie Cleary, creative directors of fashion label Alpha 60, started their fashion business by producing a range of shirts for family and friends. Now with 10 shops in Melbourne, S…
Architect Stephen Javens started his career studying Arts at the University of Queensland. However, seeing the demise of many heritage building in Brisbane during the late 1970s and 80s, changed his …
Tracey Atkins, former television presenter and journalist joined forces with marketing whiz Janette Kendall a few years ago to create Golden Eye Media. When Atkins was asked to interview a 'speaking'…
Stephen Ryan trained in Garden & Turf Management at Oakleigh Technical College. Rather than focusing on design, Ryan was more fascinated by plants. A former presenter of Gardening Australia and with …
Wendy Lasica started her career as a dancer/choreographer, working in New York in the early 1980s. By the late 1980s, she was ready to return to Melbourne. A rich number of decades followed producing…
Melissa Jackson started her career studying textiles at RMIT University, graduating in the late 1980s. With a downturn in manufacturing at that time, Jackson headed to London, enrolling in the presti…
Interior Designer Caecilia Potter started her career studying chemical engineering before changing to arts law. But travels to places such as South Africa, in particular the wilderness areas made her…
Christopher Boots is one of Australia's leading lighting designers. Initially working for Mance Design, Boots now produces exquisite lighting working directly with architects and designers both here …
Architect Bruce Trethowan has been instrumental in rejuvenating many of Melbourne's landmarks, including the recently opened Chanel flagship store on the corner of Russell Street and Flinders Lane. W…
Photographer Nicole England studied photography at Elam, the fine arts school at Auckland University before pursuing photography in the fashion and advertising industry. And in the early 2000s, joine…
Geri Williams has had a diverse career, initially studying Arts at Queensland University. But she was drawn to television and became a reporter for a number of media outlets in Cairns. While working …
Interior designer Lucy Marczyk is an Associate Senior Designer with interior design practice Nexus Designs. She talks about her recent visit to the Milan furniture fair, as well as discussing a few k…
Architect Mark O'Dwyer, co-director of H2O Architects has established a reputation for bringing considerably more to even the most utilitarian building. H20's recent Genebank for grain storage, locat…
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