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POSITIVE IMPACT, powered by Pecha Kucha at Sydney Design Festival 2018. What role do designers play in creating a more meaningful future? As design and technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives and culture, there’s an important role for designers, strategists and creatives to play to ensur…
Andy Sargent is the creative director and co-founder at SouthSouthWest, with 15 years of branding, creative direction and design for major local, national and international projects and campaigns for clients including Nike global, Google, Kathmandu, MTV, Macquarie Bank, Toyota, Architecture Media an…
Anthony Dever spent the first 8 years of his career as an independent blogger and content creator on the internet starting projects like Bookshelf Porn (one of TIME's 25 best blogs of 2012) and the satirical TV Fugly Awards. The next 7 years were spent in advertising agencies like R/GA and TBWA.Anth…
Michelle is a strategy director by trade and a professional mentor through choice. She believes wholeheartedly in the power of bold, brilliantly simple, infectious ideas and the significance of nurturing great talent.Michelle has helped mastermind the rebrand of many familiar brands in Australia, in…
Kieren is CEO of Interbrand Australia, working alongside many of the region’s most iconic organisations including The Sydney Opera House, Telstra, IGA, Foxtel, World Vision, Bailey Nelson, Australian Design Centre, AGL and SKY NZ. Kieren previously held senior executive roles in a variety of indust…
Ken Done’s work is widely recognised as holding a unique position in Australia’s cultural heritage. In 1992, he received the Order of Australia (A.M.), for services to Art, Design and Tourism. In many parts of the world, Ken Done has come to symbolise Australia and Australians: creative, optimistic …
Joel Brydon, has been Head of Studio of ustwo for 18 months, working across clients including Qantas, the Digital Transformation Office, Westpac, amaysim, Network Ten, American Express, Google and Breville.While working at ustwo’s London studio, Joel identified a gap market in the Australian market …
Jess Scully is a curator who uses creativity and the arts to engage communities in our future economy, and with the public realm. She is the founding director of Vivid Ideas, and has curated events including Junket and TEDxSydney. As a public art curator, projects include Green Square Library and Pl…
Stuart O’Brien has led some of the country’s leading brand and creative businesses, running Moon for 12 years and then as CEO of Ogilvy Sydney for 4 years. Throughout those roles, clients have looked to Stuart for brand and design leadership, strategy and execution.
Ross RaeburnMD of Soap CreativeRoss studied Fine Art where he Majored in sculpture and spent five blissful years building things with absolutely no practical value. Eventually, he reinvented himself in the world of digital advertising.Since then, he’s gathered 15 years experience in the communicatio…
Sacha Coles is Director of ASPECT Studios, one of Australia’s preeminent landscape architecture and urban design practices. He leads the award-winning Sydney studio in the design and delivery of significant public realm projects to create enduring places where people want to be. With a prominent por…
Georgia Booth, BroadsheetGeorgia Booth is a Sydney-based writer. She is currently the acting editor of Broadsheet in Sydney, an online culture guide and quarterly print issue which spans food, fashion, nightlife, entertainment, art and design.Established in 2009, Broadsheet has become the go to sour…
NumskullElliott “Numskull” Routledge is an Australian based contemporary artist, working out of Sydney in a variety of fields and mediums including painting, sculpture, and large scale public murals.Over the past 15 years, Elliott has shown work and installed major public murals all around the world…
Founder of creative/digital agency ‘CAKE’ and typography artist of ‘THEWRITING’, Tania’s media background ranges from TV News reporting, radio production, Journalism, PR, design and advertising.In 2012 with a clear vision to break the formula of traditional media Tania created ‘CAKE’, since then her…
Lukasz Karluk is a digital artist working in the fields of interactive video installation and generative computer art. His work aims to bridge the gap between the real and the digital by creating immersive digital environments that lead participants on a path of playful discovery. Generative systems…
Daye is a Strategy Director who’s worked in the industry for over 11 years. Since she started out, she’s helped reshape the fortunes of brands across a broad range of sectors – through retail, the arts, mining and finance. Daye is an avid believer of beautiful simplicity and a fervid rejecter of ove…
Our work is never done. For our event at VIVID 2015, we have invited distinguished thinkers, makers, innovators and disrupters across art, design and digital to share their personal ideas and experiences on the what, how, why and when of always-on projects. We’ll use their mantra to test, trial a…
Creativity - it’s a peculiar one. We all live and work under the umbrella of creativity, and yet the circumstances which resulted in our current situations varies dramatically. Seven speakers will cover off the very broad topic of ‘how creativity saved my life’ – Figuratively, metaphorically or …
Creativity - it’s a peculiar one. We all live and work under the umbrella of creativity, and yet the circumstances which resulted in our current situations varies dramatically. Seven speakers will cover off the very broad topic of ‘how creativity saved my life’ – Figuratively, metaphorically or …
Creativity - it’s a peculiar one. We all live and work under the umbrella of creativity, and yet the circumstances which resulted in our current situations varies dramatically. Seven speakers will cover off the very broad topic of ‘how creativity saved my life’ – Figuratively, metaphorically or …
Creativity - it’s a peculiar one. We all live and work under the umbrella of creativity, and yet the circumstances which resulted in our current situations varies dramatically. Seven speakers will cover off the very broad topic of ‘how creativity saved my life’ – Figuratively, metaphorically or …
Creativity - it’s a peculiar one. We all live and work under the umbrella of creativity, and yet the circumstances which resulted in our current situations varies dramatically. Seven speakers will cover off the very broad topic of ‘how creativity saved my life’ – Figuratively, metaphorically or …
Creativity - it’s a peculiar one. We all live and work under the umbrella of creativity, and yet the circumstances which resulted in our current situations varies dramatically. Seven speakers will cover off the very broad topic of ‘how creativity saved my life’ – Figuratively, metaphorically or …
Creativity - it’s a peculiar one. We all live and work under the umbrella of creativity, and yet the circumstances which resulted in our current situations varies dramatically. Seven speakers will cover off the very broad topic of ‘how creativity saved my life’ – Figuratively, metaphorically or …
