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Molloy, Georgiana, b. 1805
Georgiana Molloy was born in 1805. She thought herself the first person to make a flower garden in the Western Australia. Molloy also designed patterns ...
Willson, John Henry, b. 1822
Architect, decorator and scene painter. As city architect he designed the present facade and vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall as well as the Woolloomooloo ...
Dean, Edward Charles, b. 1832
Edward Charles Dean was born in 1832. He was designer and draughtsman who won an award at the Inter-Colonial Exhibition in Victoria 1866-67 and one ...
Gibbney, A. James, b. 1859
Gibbney started Gibbney's firm of art-engravers which was a major deliverer of graphic design for advertisements and other projects for the printing industry in Perth.
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Benham, Loui, b. 1868
Loui Benham was born in 1868. She was embroiderer, designer, teacher, woodcarver, pyrographer and painter. Benham exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts. She ...
Ford, William Henry, b. 1868
Architect and designer who was educated at Scotch College and University of Victoria.
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Harcourt, Clewin, b. 1870
Clewin Harcourt had a successful early career as an artist, both in Australia and in Europe. In his later years he lived a life of ...
Vanzetti, Francesco, b. 1878
Artist, designer, metalsmith, architect, farmer, research officer and lecturer. He designed the "Certificate of Award" for the Coolgardie exhibition of 1899. Vanzetti also designed a ...
Cohen, Eustace Gresley, b. 1882
Architect and designer who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1920 and 1922. Cohen's architecture was distinctive and he designed furniture in ...
Allan, Gordon, b. 1885
A songwriter and ship's officer living at Bondi in 1930 who designed a string instrument dubbed the 'Australele'.
Shorter, Lucie Emilie, b. 1887
Shorter was a designer, was born on 31 July 1887. The National Gallery of Australia holds several works by her. She is the signed author ...
Harkness, Don , b. 1890
Harkness was an automotive designer, driver and engineer responsible for the 1932 land speed record challenger "Enterprise" and other transport-based internal combustion engines and motor ...
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Geddes, Norman Bel, b. 1893
Norman Bel Geddes, b.1893, was an industrial designer who designed automobiles and other products. Notably, Bel Geddes designed a corporate emblem for General Motors Holden ...
Cavanagh, Lily Gladys, b. 1894
Embroiderer, designer and woodcarver who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1911.
Stobie, James Cyril, b. 1895
Stobie was the designer of "Stobie poles" 1924, steel and concrete power poles used in South Australia and Northern Territory.
Anderson, Alice, b. 1897
Anderson was a Victorian motor mechanic, opening perhaps the nation's first female motor garage in Kew, Victoria. She designed an "up and under" (known widely ...
Burtenshaw, Rowland, b. 1899
Designer who also taught silver-smithing and metalwork in the new post-war courses at Fremantle Technical School.
Ward, Fred (Frederick C.), b. 1900
Ward was a designer who studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne and began a design career in the 1920s, later working for Myer Emporium. ...
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Sellheim, Gert Hugo Emmanuel, b. 1901
Sellheim was a graphic artist and industrial designer. He won the Sulman Prize in 1939 and was one of the first poster artists to work ...