It is impossible to ignore how material and consumer frenzied
the modern existence has become. Design can be sensitive
to the ecological effects of these patterns and it has the
potential to harness technology in a humanistic and environmentally
sensitive way; these concepts inspire Justin’s work
in industrial, object, and furniture design.
As the design and marketing person at Tait, a progressive
furniture company based in Melbourne, Justin has examined
human-scale manufacturing and ways of bridging emotion and
technology. For his latest design for the City of Milan
Award, the Helix di Milano, Justin created an interactive
sculpture that unified culture and form, art and science,
and futurism and humanism.
In the future Justin hopes to continue to develop culturally-conscious
designs, with a focus on the people who use them.
Kate Hannaford
kate@mothdesign.com.au
Since Graduating from Industrial Design with 1st Class honours
in 2000 Kate has worked for the promotion of ideas based
design in Australia. Forming Moth Design in 2001 she has
continued to round up designers and encourage them to collaborate/argue/inspire
and lead.
- Curated and participated in Adjust for the State of Design
Festival 2004
- Curated and mentored 4 pairs of designers for 'Convex
Mirrors' for the Next Wave Festival 2004
- Participated in 'Continuum Sombourous' curated by Pandarosa
for the Fashion Festival 2004.
- Curated designers and for the Moth Design 2003 Series:
Suggest, Salvage, Skip and Bind .
- Toured the Series to London Designers Block by invitation
in September 2003.
- Participated in Compost(ion) at Platform 2, Melbourne,
Curated by Pandarosa - May 2003
- Exhibited at the Sustainable Living Festival - Federation
Square Melbourne Feburary 2003
- Designed and manufactured foyer area at Shed 4 Docklands
for 'Soft' and 'Play Dirty' for Arena Theatre/Back to Back
Theatre in the 2002 Melbourne Festival
- Curated and participated in the successful Moth Design
debut show - Afterglow, produced by the Next Wave Festival
2002. Afterglow toured to regional Victoria in September
2002
Anton Ward
anton@mothdesign.com.au
As city dwellers we inhabit an almost entirely designed
environment. The language of objects becomes familiar and
un-noticed; our relationship to objects is accepted as natural
and often left unquestioned. Anton’s interest lies
in investigating this relationship through design.
The familiar and unfamiliar, the expected and unexpected,
intended use and actual use are all underlying concepts
in Anton’s work, which spans object, graphic and digital
design fields.
Through the creation of interruptions in the accepted designed
environment Anton endeavors to draw attention to, and to
question our relationship with objects; how we use them
and how they use us.
Most of all, however, he just wants to make you smile :-)
