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LOOK HEAR DESIGN PANEL

Looking for some intellectual design discussion? Searching for some meaning in design? Wanting to find answers to issues in design? Well the Look Hear Design Panel at the Newcastle Art Gallery is the ticket for you. Some of the brightest thinkers in graphic design will be discussing their role in a creative industry and a creative society. The topic for the night is Traditional Design in Contemporary Culture and our five designers won’t be leaving any metaphorical stone unturned. Come along, join in on the discussion and be stimulated by great minds in design.

Speakers include:

Mark Gowing  has been designing identities, books and posters for 25 years. His work has been published, exhibited and awarded around the world and in 2008 became the first Australian to win the Gold Medal at the 21st International Poster Biennale in Warsaw. Mark is driven by the belief that design is as much about feeling as it is understanding. This commitment is exhibited in the studio’s output where Mark seeks to engage audiences with emotional communications for leading arts businesses such as, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, UNSW Press and Hopscotch Films.

www.markgowing.com

 

Suzanne Boccalatte

Suzanne Boccalatte is a serial creative. A designer, communicator, artist, thinker, writer and social innovator, Suzanne has run communications studio, Boccalatte, since 1990. Focusing on visual communications, publishing and new media, she has attracted clients from some of the leading cultural and social institutions across Australia. She is interested in the future of design and how it can challenge expectations, create impact and contribute to society as a whole.

Her passion for art, design and writing has lead to her producing a series of distinctive books and events in collaboration with artists and galleries—including Trunk, an award-winning, cultural compendium with contributions from a global community of writers, artists and designers. As an artist, her work sits in The National Gallery of Australia and Powerhouse Museum. She appeared on TV and radio and has lectured at universities and has sat on many judging and advisory panels. Most recently she has been appointed to the NSW Government Creative Industries Taskforce, set up to develop strategies to drive growth, innovation and productivity in the creative industries sector.

 

Christopher Doyle is an Australian graphic designer living and working in Sydney. With over ten years experience in brand and design, his work has been featured on numerous blogs, used as the basis for education material in Europe and the United States and appeared in feature articles for Creative Review and Grafik Magazine. In 2009 he was named one of Indesign Magazine’s Top Ten Faces and Forces of Design and in 2011 his work was selected to be part of Graphic Design: Now in Production (GD:NIP) – a joint exhibition with Cooper-Hewitt and the National Design Museum in America. He has lectured at Canberra University, Billy Blue School of Design (Sydney), Griffith University (Brisbane) Enmore Tafe (Sydney) AGIdeas (Melbourne) and Wollongong University (NSW) and has sat on the NSW council for the Australian Graphic Design Association. He has also made written contributions to Desktop Magazine, Design Assembly, Australian Creative and Process Journal. He has also served as a judge at D&AD, AWARD and AADC.He also happens to be that guy who found a piece of Nutri-Grain that looked like E.T. then sold it on eBay for a thousand dollars. True story. He currently works with the wonderful and curious folk at Interbrand, Sydney.

 

Heath Killen is a designer, art director and the editor of Desktop magazine.

Heath has worked extensively over the years for arts and culture organisations, such as Tantrum Theatre, PACT Sydney, Sydney Festival and the Sydney Powerhouse Museum. Additionally, Heath is represented by the Jacky Winter agency, where he has created large and small scale illustrations for the likes of Tooheys, Smirnoff, GQ and Sony Playstation. He has also developed a number of self-directed projects, such as the Dreamtime 79 poster series which was featured on blogs such as The Fox Is Black and Australian Infront, and Lost Films, which is available to purchase exclusively through the curated, on demand UK print shop Print Process. 2011 saw Heath work as senior digital designer at The Nest in Sydney, and in 2012 he took over the role of editor at Desktop, Australia’s premier design magazine.

 

 

Chaired by: 

Damien Aistrope is an Australian based digital designer and developer. His site credits range from underground labels to corporate behemoths. A shortlist of Damien’s clients includes: SonyBMG, Last.fm, AIAIAI, Fox Sports, General Pants, Carhartt, Process Journal, Insight, EMI, Monster Children and One Teaspoon.

The scope of Damien’s portfolio has gained the attention of publications such as Australian Creative, Desktop, Dazed and Confused, Good and Yen, and he has been profiled by a wide variety of online magazines such as Design is Kinky, Josh Spears, Slam X Hype, Hypebeast and Sneaker Freaker. No stranger to publishing himself, Damien has acted as an editor to Australian Infront since 2003. Other projects include working with Zann St Pierre under the name Addition, opening a boutique called We’re, starting an artist colab t-shirt label named 2×4, developing the Infront Insight series along with a multitude of art and design events such as the Field Trip creative conference.

 

Time:Friday 2nd Nov / 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:Newcastle Art Gallery

Cost:Free

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