Tim Rundle
Tim Rundle is a London based Industrial Designer with experience in furniture, lighting, transport, interior and product design.
With experience across furniture, lighting, home ware, technology and transport, the studio's work is driven by context and has grown to focus on the design of products and systems that exist at the intersection between architecture and its inhabitants.
A preoccupation with simplicity, improvement and the pragmatic application of creativity; combined with a rigorous and knowledgable approach to the technical aspects of materials and manufacturing leads to results that are, at the same time, useful, engaging and relevant.
Metrica
Metrica is a design studio based in Milan with an international reputation for the unique approach to contemporary furniture design, which consists of a strong mix of design management and technical advisory.
Metrica places design in a new value context resulting in a recognized global vision in creating and managing projects. The Studio offers the opportunity to acquire turnkey projects, from design to production.
Tom Fereday
Tom Fereday believes honest design is true to materials and it’s process. Tom develops products based on the principle of honest design, conveying a design process which celebrate the materials and manufacture behind furniture and products.
By using the materials and environment as a positive design constraint we guide intelligent and thoughtful design outcomes which connect with people through natural materials, tactile forms and unique design. Tom Fereday strives to create enduring designs which are meaningful to people and their environment.
Nikolai Kotlarczyk
Hailing from the rainforest hinterland behind Byron Bay, in NSW designer Nikolai Kotlarczyk has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark for the last six years. The studio of Nikolai Kotlarczyk extends across interior product design – from decorative pieces to more industrial focused work. What unites his work is a geometric sensibility based around the design elements of symmetry and balance, along with references to historical and geographical ingredients – most predominantly architectural.
His body of work aims to simplify the act of storytelling through an honest palette of materials, and expression in bold forms. Aiming to simplify and present these references in a contemporary way, Kotlarczyk’s work often contains a sense of nostalgia within a style that is refined yet, decorative. His studio approaches the importance of sustainability in contemporary design through a combination of quality craftsmanship, durable natural materials, and a unique design language to create work that does not contribute to a throw-away culture.
Matt Lorrain
Matt Lorrain is a furniture specialist who takes an end-to-end approach working across design, product development, industrial & bespoke production as well as creative direction.
Having studied furniture design at RMIT Melbourne, Matt has since worked and collaborated on a spectrum of projects with a focus on interior architecture and furniture design, most recently being a Co-founder and creative director of Australian design brand SP01. With a naturally curious nature, Matt seeks out emerging trends and interprets them with references respecting both the historic and the abstract.
Jean-Christophe Clair
After studying art history at the Universities of Toulouse and Bordeaux and courses in applied art in tempera painting with the Greek iconographer Eva Vlavianos, he realized that he wasn’t interested in just one artistic field, but wanted to explore the link between the arts, their meeting points and the uniqueness of their relationship.
Jean Christophe Clair eagerly devoured every book and score, searched for interesting stimuli and themes and built new creative bridges. Rejecting the role of the designer as a creator of serial production, he became passionate about ceramics and Rometti's extraordinary objects, pouring into this new field the different cultural influences accumulated over the years, learning new techniques and opening new paths for the historic Umbertide company. The fantasies and motifs from his imagination find expressive form in the clay, in the colours and shapes of objects that don’t simply follow trends but dreams and visions inspired by the great classics or stolen from everyday life. As in a fairy tale, he inaugurated a new, extraordinary creative path as Artistic Director of Rometti.
Hayden Cox
Hayden Cox is a multi disciplinary Australian designer best known for Haydenshapes, his eponymous performance surfboard company he founded at age 15. In August 2022, Haydenshapes launched their debut contemporary mens ready-to-wear collection exclusively available with fashion luxury retailer Mr Porter and via haydenshapes.com. Haydenshapes award winning brand is sold all over the world in more than 70 countries and has offices in both Sydney and California. His patented parabolic carbon fiber frame technology FutureFlex revolutionized surfboard design and influenced innovation globally in a way that has not been seen since the 1970s. His Hypto Krypto surfboard model is said to be the highest selling performance surfboard in surf history and is a multiple recipient of ‘Surfboard of The Year’ across Australia and the USA where it continues to be a number one seller.
Synonymous with multi-faceted collaboration and a high-quality approach to product design, through his brand Haydenshapes Hayden has worked on global projects with prolific New York based artist Daniel Arsham, Alexander Wang, KITH, along with a recent announcement of a global partnership with The Woolmark Company.
Through his design ethos led by innovation, materiality exploration and contemporary construction, beyond surfboards, Hayden has been sought out and commissioned for leading projects across Interior Design (Blainey North for Crown Residences 2021), technical consumer wearables (Westpac 2018), high end sculpture art and fashion. In 2020 Hayden was engaged by Akin Atelier to collaborate on realising their resin concept for the Gallery Shop, as part of the high profile architectural development for the Art Gallery of NSW ‘Sydney Modern’ project. The new wing of the gallery opened to the public December 3, 2022.
In August 2021, Hayden featured on the cover of Australian Financial Review Magazine prestigious annual ‘Design Issue’ (print), is a ‘Man of Innovation’ award recipient (GQ ‘Men of The Year’) and GOLD award winner (GOOD DESIGN Awards) for his patented FutureFlex carbon fibre frame surfboard construction. Hayden was recently selected by Apple to feature in the brands first Australian campaign for ‘Behind the Mac’, alongside the countries 24 top creatives, musicians, artists and designers. Hayden is an ambassador for IWC Schaffhausen along with Audi, in which he featured in the global 2023 campaign for the Audi Active Sphere concept shot in the Canadian Alps.