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Brown, Donald C., b. 1909
Donald C. Brown was a lighting designer with Brooks Robinson Pty Ltd after 1933. In 1947, he registered Brown Evans and Co, in equal partnership ...
Fabian, Erwin, b. 1915
Industrial designer, graphic artist, sculptor and one of the "Dunera Boys" interned in Hay, NSW, during World War II. In 1950 Fabian moved to London ...
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Andrews, Gordon Arthur, b. 1914
Gordon Andrews was one of Australia's prominent mid-20th century multi-disciplinary designers. While best known for designing Australia's first decimal currency notes (1966), his international career ...
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Featherston, Grant, b. 1922
Featherston was an Industrial design and design industry leader. Recognised for his furniture and exhibition work in partnership with Mary Featherston, he helped to form ...
Hilder, Bim, b. 1909
Bim Hilder was a Sydney based sculptor, printmaker and painter active during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Foundation member of the Sculpture Society, ...
Johnson, John Godschall, b. 1912
An artist of diverse media, a world known violin maker and a committed socialist, Johnson was awarded an OAM in 1991 for services to the ...
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Meadmore, Clement, b. 1929
Well known as a sculptor, Meadmore began his career as a designer. His furniture was sold at Marion Hall Best’s showrooms and his lighting design ...
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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 ...
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Onus, Bill, b. 1906
William Townsend (Bill) Onus 1906-68. As an artist, entrepeneur, actor and activist Bill Onus made an significant contribution to Art and Aboriginality in postwar Melbourne. ...
Beck, Richard, b. 1912
Beck practised as an industrial designer and graphic artist in the UK and Australia. He designed travel posters for the Orient Line, London Transport, stamps ...
Hillier, Rob, b. 1913
Mid 20th century cartoonist, caricaturist, writer, photographer, car driver and designer. Hillier was also a journalist/writer, author of 'Let's buy a terrace house'.
McLay, Roger, b. 1922
Roger McLay began working in industrial design after 1947. McLay's most celebrated work, the "Kone" chair, was developed and sold from 1948. From the mid-1950s ...
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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 ...
Snook, Athol, b. 1920
Athol Snook was born in 1920. He was commercial artist, magazine and advertisement illustrator who studied under George Bell in Melbourne.
Surtees, George, b. 1922
Surtees trained in Budapest and worked in Sydney in interior design, commercial display, furniture and other design-related work for commercial clients.
Foulkes-Taylor, David, b. 1929
David Phillips Foulkes-Taylor was born in 1929. He was designer, art connoisseur and entrepreneur, working from a studio (after 1957) in Crawley, WA. He was ...
Thompson, Robert McKay, b. 1910
Painter, illustrator, designer and art teacher. He was a very gentle man remembered with affection by past students.
Lindesay, James Vane Crawford, b. 1920
Late 20th century Melbourne cartoonist, illustrator, writer and book designer. A prolific Australian cartoon historian.
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 ...