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RiteLite
RiteLite was the trade name for a Melbourne-based lighting design and manufacturing firm specialising in modernist aluminium-shaded tripod lights, the OSCAR table lamp, wall sconces, ...
ZAB Design
ZAB Design was a firm established by Helen Abson and Ken Abson in 1972. They were fabric designers working from South Yarra, Melbourne and in ...
Bancroft, Bronwyn, b. 1958
Known for her colourful paintings, prints and textile designs, Bronwyn Bancroft is also an advocate of arts and education for Indigenous Australians.
Bolot, Aaron, b. 1900
Aaron Bolot was a Crimea-born, Brisbane-educated architect who created many notable residential and commercial buildings in Sydney from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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Crooke, Ray, b. 1922
Crooke began his career as an artist at a Melbourne advertising agency while taking courses as Swinburne Technical College. After 1939-45 war service, he taught, ...
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Dawson, Janet, b. 1935
Painter, printmaker and designer working in the mid twentieth century. She studied at the National Gallery School in the 1950s and joined the stable of ...
Dickenson, John, b. 1934
Dickenson was one of the early designers of the hang-glider. He filed for a preliminary patent for an "improved gliding apparatus" but did not proceed ...
Ewing, Andrew Hau, b. 1964
Ewing is an artist and designer working in illustration, painting, graphic design and printmaker.
Goatcher, James, b. 1879
Artist and theatre scene painter and designer who was a member of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales and of the West Australian ...
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Muncaster, Ron, b. 1936
Muncaster was a designer working in costume design, notably costume developed for the Sydney Mardi Gras parade. He began designing costume for the parade in ...
Sumner, Alan, b. 1911
Sumner was a painter, printmaker and stained glass designer. He was well known for his silkscreen prints which exhibited first in Melbourne and sold in ...
Webb, Michaela
Webb trained in graphic design in New Zealand, first working in advertising internationally, then moving to Australia in 2002 where she founded Studio Round, Melbourne.
Webb, Barry, b. 1940
Webb was a lighting engineer and designer combining the science of lighting with aesthetic goals. Among his projects are the lighting programme for the 2000 ...
Breotex Furniture
Breotex is a furniture designer and homewares maker, specialising in outdoor furniture. Their work is advertised in the late 1960s. Breotex Plastics, registered in Adelaide, ...
Society of Interior Designers of Australia
The Society of Interior Designers of Australia began ca. 1950 in Sydney and incorporated in 1964. Some of the goals of the organisation included ethical ...
Industrial Styling Company, Australasia
Company established in Sydney by industrial designer Charles Frederick Beauvais. Industrial design work included exhibition displays, food mixers, oil stoves, lights, and two arches placed ...
Society for Responsible Design
Formed by designers, practioners and educators in 1989. SRD shows that historically Design makes great Value. However, to achieve sustainable futures, this must be upgraded ...
Lyon, Cottier & Co.
Lyon, Cottier & Co. began in Sydney in 1873 with premises in Pitt Street. The company specialized in painted schemes & glass, but dealt in ...
Paterson Brothers
Paterson Brothers, Melbourne completed one of their first interior decoration commissions at Villa Alba, Kew in 1884. This commission included fabrics, valances, tiles, Japanese “leather” ...
Rosando Bros.
Melbourne-based furniture designers and makers, Paul and Michael Rosta, active in the last half of the 20th century. Their work is commonly in timber, featuring ...