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"My career in design was somewhat an accident," reveals Tom Fereday, in this insightful Q&A ā€“ the first conversation in a series highlighting the talented shortlist in Zenith's Emerging Designer category at IDEA 2016.
Chris has a reputation for elegantly shaping residential and hospitality interiors, while designing and manufacturing objects and furniture. Here, on winning the IDEA 2014 Gold Medal, he reflects on his more than 30 years of experience within the architecture, interior design and furniture industry.
When it comes to Australians doing well overseas, mainstream thinking seems to stop at the mega-stardom of Marc Newson. The global product design sector is, however, alive with a swathe of Australian designers ā€“ as Gillian Serisier writes for inside.
New York-based Filipino industrial designer Stanley Ruiz has an affinity for combining traditional craft techniques with contemporary design aesthetics, producing cleverly reinterpreted objects which display both foreign and familiar qualities.
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