Talking Design

Talking Design

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Talking Design episodes

  • Tracey Atkins, Goldeneye Media - Talking Design 2016, Ep6
    Tracey Atkins, former television presenter and journalist joined forces with marketing whiz Janette Kendall a few years ago to create Golden Eye Media. When Atkins was asked to interview a 'speaking' furry toy in the late 1990s, she knew it was time to start her own venture. Golden Eye Media now roams the world filming luxurious homes. Part of their success has been in telling a great story about each property and the history uncovered with each gem.

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    25 min
  • Stephen Ryan, Gardener And Horticulturalist - Talking Design 2016, Ep5
    Stephen Ryan trained in Garden & Turf Management at Oakleigh Technical College. Rather than focusing on design, Ryan was more fascinated by plants. A former presenter of Gardening Australia and with his own nursery Dicksonia Rare Plants at Mt. Macedon where he was raised. Ryan has a great deal to pass on to garden enthusiasts.

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    39 min
  • Urban Planner Wendy Lasica - Talking Design 2016, Ep4
    Wendy Lasica started her career as a dancer/choreographer, working in New York in the early 1980s. By the late 1980s, she was ready to return to Melbourne. A rich number of decades followed producing both work for dance and for theatre. More recently Lasica graduated with a Masters Degree in Urban Planning. Lasica brings to planning a sense of 'production', and a fresh perspective on what makes cities work.

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    29 min
  • Melissa Jackson, Milliner - Talking Design 2016 Ep3
    Melissa Jackson started her career studying textiles at RMIT University, graduating in the late 1980s. With a downturn in manufacturing at that time, Jackson headed to London, enrolling in the prestigious Central St. Martins School of Fashion. Returning to Melbourne, Jackson got her break at Christines in Flinders Lane, when a number of imported hats were held up on the wharf in peak cup season. Years later, Melissa Jackson is still creating unique and sculptural hats for some of Melbourne's best dressed.

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    28 min
  • Interior Designer Caecilia Potter - Talking Design 2016, Ep1
    Interior Designer Caecilia Potter started her career studying chemical engineering before changing to arts law. But travels to places such as South Africa, in particular the wilderness areas made her reassess her future path. Potter, now director of Atticus & Milo, studied Interior Design at RMIT University and now designs everything from residential to commercial fit-outs.

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    23 min
  • Christopher Boots, Lighting Designer - Talking Design, Ep16
    Christopher Boots is one of Australia's leading lighting designers. Initially working for Mance Design, Boots now produces exquisite lighting working directly with architects and designers both here and abroad. While his designs vary in scale and detail, his hallmark pieces often include hundreds of crystals.

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    28 min
  • Architect Bruce Trethowan - Talking Design 2015, Ep.15
    Architect Bruce Trethowan has been instrumental in rejuvenating many of Melbourne's landmarks, including the recently opened Chanel flagship store on the corner of Russell Street and Flinders Lane. While Trethowan Architects takes such buildings forward, he also responds to its past. Corlyule, a historic homestead in Victoria, a collaboration with heritage architect Bryce Raworth, which received an Architecture Award (AIA Victorian Chapter) is indicative of the high calibre of work from this practice.

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    34 min
  • Photographer Nicole England - Talking Design 2015, Ep. 14
    Photographer Nicole England studied photography at Elam, the fine arts school at Auckland University before pursuing photography in the fashion and advertising industry. And in the early 2000s, joined the POL Oxygen team, a prestigious Australian design publication. But in 2008, England was ready to start working on her own, capturing extraordinary homes in Australia and abroad.

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    26 min
  • Director And Curator Of Sagra Gallery, Geri Williams - Talking Design 2015 Ep.13
    Geri Williams has had a diverse career, initially studying Arts at Queensland University. But she was drawn to television and became a reporter for a number of media outlets in Cairns. While working as a television producer for SBS and ABC television, she produced a design series Nest based on the home. Williams most recent position is with Sagra Gallery in Malvern, working as both a director and curator.

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    18 min

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Talking Design is a fortnightly podcast review of design in all its facets - from architecture to industrial design, from fashion to automotive design. It features interviews with prominent designers…