Talking Design

Monty Coles is a leading fashion photographer who was regularly travelling the globe in the 1980s with magazines such as British & Australian Vogue. Initially working on Wall Street, in the finance industry, Coles made the transition to photography after being asked to assist a New York photographer with his business. Travelling to Tokyo with model Twiggy in the mid-60s certainly helped his career. Among his current gigs are teaching photographic students at RMIT University. Read Monty's blog at: www.theloupe.org

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Stephen Crafti speaks with Industrial Designer Simon Lloyd. Simon regularly collaborates with architects as well as producing his own range of products focusing on smaller items such as vases, bowls and kitchen appliances. While he is known for his ceramics, he is as comfortable working with materials such as felt. Simon has recently had an exhibition at the Anita Traverso gallery in Richmond, Melbourne.

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In this week's episode of Talking Design, Stephen Crafti speaks with Robyn Healy, Associate Professor and Program Director for RMIT School of Fashion. Robyn has a Fine Arts Degree from ANU and started her career as the Inaugural Curator of Fashion and Theatre arts at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Robyn shares her experience of working with Australian public collections of fashion and textiles for over 20 years.

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Stephen Crafti talks to Ian Wong, Communications Coordinator in Industrial Design at RMIT. Ian talks about the role of industrial design and the importance that practicality and durability play in the design aesthetic. Ian maintains a blog of his research at http://ianwongresearch.blogspot.com

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In this weeks Talking Design, Stephen Crafti talks to award winning architect Robert Simeoni about the evolving relationship between designers and builders being redefined by manufacturing technology, which now gives architects more shapes and installation methods to consider when designing.

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Stephen Crafti talks to Melbourne-based architects Brett Nixon and George Fortey from Nixon Tulloch and Fortey about some of issues that dominate the domestic end of architecture. From renovations, to new housing, knockdowns, client expectations, client relationships and realistic costing, Brett and George offer some valuable observations.

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Jarrod Haberfield is one of three directors at Molecule, a design practice based in Melbourne that works across the disciplines of architecture, interiors and art direction. Jarrod studied architecture in Auckland, New Zealand at the Unitec Institute of Technology where he met his two partners and the Molecule story began. Stephen Crafti talks to Jarrod about what it takes to be a successful architect in today's world of merging styles and discusses what clients are looking for in their homes, work environments and community spaces.

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Michael Howard is a landscape architect and lecturer in landscape architecture in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University. Michael started as a horticulturist, studying at Burnley and buying for nurseries with people like Paul Bangay and Jenny Walker who were accommodating for the upper-end of the domestic market. He then returned to study Landscape architecture and design at RMIT University as a mature aged student and went on to work with John Patrick of Gardening Australia and worked for a company called Out of the Blue that do contemporary swimming pools.
Stephen Crafti speaks to Michael Howard about the history of Landscape Gardening and the relationship between Architecture design and the landscape.

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Melanie Katsalidis is the director of Pieces of Eight, a contemporary jewellery and small object gallery in Melbourne showing the work of over thirty local and international artists. Melanie was originally trained in Art at the University of Melbourne and went on to do a gold and silversmiths course at RMIT University.
In this week's Talking Design with Stephen Crafti, Melanie speaks about why she choose to pursue contemporary jewellery.

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Chris Rack has an enviable reputation as a sculptor of steel and his artworks can be found in both public and private venues. Popular with architects, he is frequently commissioned to contribute sculptures, both internally and externally, as part of the overall architectural design. Here he talks to Stephen Crafti about the increasing popularity of sculpture, the importance of detail in his work and the joys of working with steel.

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