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Guest Speaker Series > Previous Speakers The following speakers have taken part in the Academy Guest Speaker Series. The Academy thanks all the speakers for their time and contribution to this program.
Elli Ioannou, Photographer and Academy tutor During her 12 year career, Elli has worked extensively in Australian and most recently in New York and Milan. Specialising in fashion photography, Elli’s unique vision for portraying style and cosmopolitan culture have earned her high profile commissions for clients including BMW, Peugeot, Chanel, Oyster and Marie Claire.
Michael Peck, Artist Michael Peck is a Melbourne based artist whose artistic practice is concerned with the sensation of disorientation and dislocation that is often felt within the post modern world. Exploring issues regarding the loss of cultural identity, his work particularly focuses on the effects within minority groups and individuals existing on the fringe who are challenged to assimilate within the larger community.
Josh Hayes, Award winning logo designer Since graduating from the Australian Academy of Design with a major in Graphic Design, Josh has been working in a range of design commissions for both domestic and international clients, with a focus on logo design Josh was recently announced as the winner of the Oceania Division of the 2010 WOLDA logo design Awards. Wolda is the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world.
Bill Sampson, Artist Dr. Bill Sampson is a Melbourne based visual artist with a rigorous contemporary practice. He attained a Bachelor of Art degree with Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts (Drawing Department) before attaining his Doctor of Philosophy at Melbourne University (VCA), the title of which was Prettybad: towards an aesthetics of the expressionless.
Harriet Oxley, Costume & Set Designer Harriet is a Melbourne-based theatre designer working mainly with costume design for theatre, opera, dance and circus. She has design qualifications from VCA (grad dip theatre design) and RMIT (BA fashion design) and has a background in film and television. Her work has a graphic sensibility and a painterly approach to colour.
Eirian Chapman, Graphic Designer Eirian is a freelance illustrator & graphic designer based in Melbourne. She works in a variety of mediums including traditional and digital and is influenced by folk art, fashion, geometric patterns, the internet and by her cat.
Ben McNamara – Designer, Filmmaker & Creative
Gwendolynne Burkin – Founder Gwendolynne Designs
Jason Cavanagh – Curator, The Owl and the Pussycat Jason is an actor, writer, painter, director, and manager/owner of the Owl and the Pussycat. Involved in the arts industry in one form or another for over a decade, Jason originally predominantly focused his career around acting, graduating from The National Theatre Drama school in 2002 and subsequently performing in many of the theatres in and around Melbourne. In 2008 he started The Owl and the Pussycat gallery, inspired by his travels around Europe and with a passion for supporting fringe art. The multidisciplinary nature of his own arts practices and a belief that there should be more cross pollination in the arts led him to opening The Runcible Spoon Theatre upstairs at the Owl and the Pussycat. Since then both the gallery and the theater have quickly grown in popularity and are becoming well known and respected fixtures in the Melbourne fringe arts scene.
Gavin Blue – Photographer
Paddy Reardon - Film and TV Production designer/Art Director Paddy’s credits include:
Alisdair McKinnon - Founder of Orangechairs and former director of Idea Nation and former Marketing Manager for Calvin Klein Jeans Australia / New Zealand)
Richard Henderson – CEO & Founder of R-Co
Adam Elliot – Award-winning Animated Filmmaker and Illustrator
Kate Vandermeer– Fashion Designer & Style Consultant Kate has worked in the fashion industry for 15 years as an accessory designer, visual merchandiser, stylist and brand manager for Mimco, Decjuba, French Connection and stylehunter.com. Kate is currently a lecturer in Fashion
Ted Powell – Art Director Ted Powell has over thirty years of international experience as an advertising art director and creative director. For twenty years he worked on the Ford Motor Company account at J Walter Thompson. As part of the FMC Global Business Unit (based in Melbourne, Auckland, Taipei, Detroit, London and Bangkok) he had various regional creative responsibilities (Ford Asia/Pacific and Jaguar UK/Europe). In 1999, he was appointed as International Creative Director/ senior partner at JWT Detroit and was creatively responsible for all Ford Motor Company advertising outside North America. He was considered by JWT/Ford Motor company to be the ‘elder’ statesman of Asian automotive advertising’ because of his experience and strategic knowledge in the region..
Megan Boonstra – Fashion Illustrator Since completing her Communication design (Graphic Design) and honours year, Megan is currently working as a fashion illustrator. Originally interviewed for a graphic design position, Megan’s love of fashion opened the doorway to a fashion illustrator position at “Cotton On”, based in Geelong. Her current position involves her understanding fashion trends and working closely with buyers and product developers in producing a range of clothing lines.
Fergus Watts – Managing Director, Bastion Brands Ex AFL footballer, Fergus Watts is the founder of Bastion, an innovative company with a focus on branding, advertising and design. Who are you and what do you want to BE? are the central questions asked, answered and executed with all Bastion clients, including Callaway Golf, GSK, Westpac, Medibank, Boost, T2 and many more.
Ken Cato – Executive Creative Director, Cato Partners
Tony Palmer– Senior Designer at Penguin Books Tony has been working as a book designer for varios publishers since 1986 and is a Senior Designer at Penguin Books. He has won numerous design awards for his work and is regularly acknowledged in the Australian Publishers Association Annual Book Design Awards.
Leigh Hobbs – Illustrator & Children's Book Author Illustrator and writer of children’s books for Penguin, Leigh Hobbs' work includes “Fiona the Pig” and 'The Old Tom' series.
Elli Ioannou – Photographer Coordinator of Photo Media at the Academy, Elli spoke about her recent experience exhibiting in Milan.
Katrina Jojkity – Style Director As the ‘Style Director’ at Tiszai | Bureau de Style Katrina had the opportunity to work in China, New York, Paris, Hong Kong and London. For two years while living in Shanghai Katrina taught Fashion Marketing and Design at Raffles Design Institute. Katrina has also published a book for Chinese men on 'How to Dress for Success’!
David Simmonds – Award Winning Photographer
Paola Di Trocchio, Assistant Curator NGV
Richard Henderson – Brand Identity Specialist
Richard was Brand Identity Director for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and was the Visual Identity Consultant for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. In 2007 he was recipient of the Monash Distinguished Alumni Award and in 2009 was inducted into the Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame. Richard is owner/director of three other businesses in the creative sector- GeekIT- web technology; GeekIT group- IT accessories and fashion and Yo-Co- a product invention company.
David Parker – Award Winning Melbourne Filmmaker
David Parker is a filmmaker with an outstanding pedigree. After a 10 year career as a stills photographer ("A Town Like Alice", "The Man From Snowy River", "Phar Lap", "Burke and Wills", "High Tide" and "Kangaroo"), Parker was asked to shoot the low budget feature "Mr B Says No", which won a Golden Camera Award at the Chicago Film Festival. "Malcolm" was the first feature film, which he wrote, shot and produced with director Nadia Tass. The film won eight Australian Film Institute awards and numerous international honours. Following the success of "Malcolm", Parker wrote and filmed "Rikky and Pete" with Tass in 1987. In 1989 he shot "The Outsiders" for Francis Ford Coppola, the pilot for the television series on the Fox Network. Parker then wrote, produced and shot "The Big Steal" which won local audiences and nine Australian Film Institute nominations, winning Parker the award for Best Screenplay. More recently Parker produced “Irresistible” (2005), starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill and Emily Blunt; “The Gates of Hell” (2007); and produced, co-wrote, and shot “Matching Jack” (2009) starring James Nesbitt. David is also an accomplished director of commercials, notably the Vodafone campaign with Michael Richards (Kramer) and the AFL "I’d like to see that" campaign with Ray Charles, Shaquille O’Neill, Elton John & Christy Turlington.
Danny Stefanic – Virtual Reality Specialist Danny is the founder and CEO of ExitReality. His company has pioneered a new technology that has the potential to make the entire Internet 3D. ExitReality provides a free Internet plug-in that allows anyone to view every web page in 3D. Over 40 billion websites are now instantly available as one massive virtual ecosystem, allowing users to convert their 2D web pages into a 3D customizable space; meet and chat with people at any website; or search and explore thousands of online 3D communities. ExitReality also boasts the world’s largest index of Web3D content. Its international success extends to companies such as Warner Brothers in the US who utililse the technology to engage viewers with a virtual 3-D experience via their website. However it is within the realm of social networking that ExitReality promises to transform the social networking experience by offering virtual versions of every social network site profile. After completing a double major in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Swinburne University, Danny founded the Virtual Reality Association in 1994, which has since grown into an international non-profit organisation.
Paris Kyne – Iconic Melbourne Master Milliner
Paris Kyne took a job in millinery working at Melbourne Hats in 1988, then a year later started attending Broadmeadows College of TAFE studying millinery and a few units of fashion. Back then, the only course available in millinery was in “Broadie”, so that's where he went! He was then was fortunate to get a job working for the late internationally beloved celebrity milliner William Beale, where he and the team were supplying David Jones and Myer with one off work, no mass production back then! A few years later he opened his own business in Malvern, which later moved to Toorak. During this time he also studied at the London Collage of Fashion. His work has adorned countless celebrities over the years, including Paris and Nicky Hilton, Tara Moss, Melissa George, Marcia Hines and Kate Ceberano. Clients have won mountains of fashions on the fields competitions and he has staged solo exhibitions of his work both in Australia and also in the U.S.A. "People have described me as an art piece, which I guess is a compliment." He is now teaching at Kangan Institute what he learnt in “Broadie” years ago, along with the techniques William Beale taught him, the skills he has learnt whilst working at Fredrick Fox, milliner to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second in London, and all the amazing skills learnt working for years for himself. "I believe in hand made, and I am so fortunate to be able to teach the tradition millinery techniques that have spent my lifetime learning and perfecting."
For all enquiries please contact the Academy on (03) 9676 9000 or email info@designacademy.edu.au
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