Australian Design Radio

In this episode, we spoke with Amy Sheppard the Digital Creative Director of Australia Post. Amy has had a long history of working both in and out of client-side so she’s the perfect person to give both sides of the story. As you’ll guess from her accent, Amy has only been in Australia for about two years. Previously working for Deloitte in both Sydney and Melbourne she hails from New York where she worked for corporate giants such as Johnson & Johnson and Weight Watchers when they were just a

In this episode, we spoke with Chris Billing Founder and Director of the Foundry. The Foundry, a start-up collective devoted to bringing a larger spotlight to the creative communities of Tasmania. In this discussion, we spend some time looking at the Tasmanian design scene and the good and bad of being an island. We talk about the ‘main-brain-drain’ where creative talent feels the need to move to the mainland and we touch upon David Walsh and Mona’s ever-present influence on Tasmanian

In this episode, we spoke with Tim Buesing, Executive Creative Director at Reactive. Tim has over 20 years experience in digital design and has worked for agencies such as BBDO, Publicis, Razorfish and MetaDesign. For the last three years, he’s been known as a Creative Director of Reactive, editor of Adverblog contributor to Australian in Front and speaker at numerous events around the World. Tim talks through his approach to design, why he’s excited by digital experiments and the importance of

In this episode, we spoke with Jason Little, Co-Founder of For the People. Jason is known for a lot of things but mostly branding, in fact he’s been featured by D&AD multiple times for his branding and even been picked to be in the Graphis Branding annual. He’s been the Creative Director of Landor, not just here but also in Paris, still is AGDA NSW Chairman and up until recently was heading up Re: in Sydney. We spoke about his new agency which he founded recently with Andy Wright and Damian

In this episode, we spoke with Mark Stott of Common Creative. Stott started Common in 2005 as a boutique design agency concentrating on brand and visual solutions. Mark originally started out in London working for the Designer’s Republic – the poster studio for a whole generation of designers. In ’97 Mark moved to the Attik before immigrating to Australia to set it up over here. 11 years ago though he decided to go out on his own and he’s been running his own studio ever since. In this

In this episode, we spoke with Kevin Finn Founder of TheSumOf, DesignNerd, and Editor and Founder of Open Manifesto. For fans of lateral thinking and The Six Thinking Hats, Kevin talks about what it was like to have de Bono Global as a client and how, Collaborating with Amanda Mobbs (CEO of de Bono Global) he developed a brand and visual language around Edward de Bono's life's work. If you haven’t already seen it check out Kevin’s work for the de Bono 56 book collection. --- Send in a voice

In this episode, we spoke with Chris Doyle of Christopher Doyle and Co. In 2009 Christopher was named one of InDesign Magazine’s Top Ten Faces before going on to set up his own studio: Christopher Doyle & Co. His work has won numerous awards both in and out of Australia and he regularly speaks on the design industry. Among the many topics covered Christopher talks about seeing Sons & Co. as part of the AGDA National tour and what comfort he found in famous web designers admitting they didn’t know

In this, the very first episode of Australian Design Radio, we talk with Frankie Ratford Founder of The Design Kids. Frankie is one of the most active people in the design industry, having founded TDK in 2009 she's worked all over Australia including traveling tours in the TDK bus and more recently jumping from city to city for the TDK Fourplay exhibitions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/australian-design-radio/message