Interview – Daniel Mapp

Article by Martin Gibson – @embody3d @martingibson – Tuesday – 10/05/11
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Australian designers must get to know their neighbours – DIA MEDIA RELEASE

20 December 2010 Australian designers must get to know their neighbours In today’s global design studio few can afford to design in a vacuum. “Our clients are international and they expect us to be informed and aware,” says Geoff Fitzpatrick FDIA, Design Institute Australia’s (DIA) Director of National Strategy. “We have a number of DIA [...]

Interview – Barton Smith

We had the great pleasure of talking to Barton Smith an industrial/user-interface designer at QPC which are developing the Ouidoo platform, an exciting new mobile platform which utilises technologies like augmented reality among others. Barton explains his journey from humble Monash University in Melbourne Australia to one of the most innovative open platforms in the mobile market [...]

Interview Cambridge Industrial Design

This week we had the pleasure of talking to Alex Jones, Managing Director of Cambridge Industrial Design. Cambridge Industrial Design is one of the leading design consultancies in the UK offering personal and flexible design solutions to its clients utilising the latest in rapid design, concepting and prototyping.  In this interview Alex outlines some of [...]

Why Freelancer, Service Seeking and Elance are Destroying the Freelance Design Industry

Article by Martin Gibson – Twitter: @martingibson @embody3d - 31.08.2010 In the last few years we have seen an emergence of global project centres for freelancers of any occupation, particularly design-based industries because of the computer related savviness of the designers themselves. These project centres include growing websites like Elance, Freelancer and the Australian based ServiceSeeking which offer [...]

TWIID #8

Article by Martin Gibson – @embody3d @martingibson - 23.08.2010 This week in Industrial Design features the hottest links to other cool Industrial Design resources from around the web. For your weekly dose of Industrial Design news, events and products check out TWIID! If you have or know of a good resource for TWIID please get in [...]

The Colours of Product Design

For many product designers the consideration of product colour is often an oversight. It is quite often the very last aspect considered in the design process, but in many regards it is one of the more important decisions that must be made. I believe many industrial designers have a self-serving perspective of colour selection, picking more [...]

Interview – Martin Gibson

In this interview we spoke to Martin Gibson a recent graduate from UTS Industrial Design, and founder of Embody 3D. Martin explains some of the reasons for a poor job climate for designers and some of the positives and negatives of the industrial design profession. Martin also explains why on earth he started this silly [...]

Interview – Richard Liddle – Cohda Design

Embody 3D had the great opportunity to talk to Richard Liddle, industrial designer from Cohda Design which has been branded as a ‘punk rock eco design firm’, I guess not everyone can say that. Cohda seems to blur the line between fine art and industrial design to deliver some truly creative and beautiful products to [...]

Interview – Stephen Mayall – Tiller Design

In this extended interview Stephen Mayall, Business Development Manager of Tiller Design, based in Australia and the UK, will outline some of the feature projects of Tiller as well as give an insight into the current state and future of the Australian Design Industry. Tiller is both a design and manufacturing business with a wide [...]