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This is the public profile of Anne Gordon, Additional information and high-resolution images are available for accredited press members, to access additional information about Anne Gordon please login as a press member.About Anne Gordon : Always told she was a problem solver. Trained as an industrial designer, Anne found mass production less interesting than the opportunities that arose in her career to apply the same skills and materials understanding to solving wayfinding problems. She was able to design more one off solutions that would lead to a different and original outcome every time. Her design history was very broad. She had the good fortune to collaborate and work with industrial designers who taught her how to design with a sense of humour and know how to use a drawing board, and architects who taught her the understanding of scale and the importance of detail in large and intimate spaces, and with landscape architects who are also festidious about materials relationships and and placement in a public domain or precious open spaces. These things formed a particular style which may draw upon simple shapes but with finnesse and confidence to leave a mark on the world. Out and about in Sydney, her work can pop up on the TV, seen behind a news presenter as a place making element, or in a large stadium to be used by big rock stars, or just next to a main road for everyone to use and enjoy - no wonder she drives her children mad regularly pointing and saying wherever they go ...."I designed that!"
STATEMENT OF ART:I believe that its not worth designing anything unless the details are really considered, totally fit for purpose and followed through with gusto, and no matter how hard you have to fight for what you want, never let cost compromise your design. There is always an alternative - it sometimes takes a while to solve but you have to. The thing, the final thing that everyone sees and uses is ultimately a part of you, and you will be proud.
ORGANIZATION:
Anne Gordon Design
EDUCATION:
1978 - 1981 Canberra University, Bachelor of Applied Science, Industrial Design
EXPERIENCE:
Design Field, Sydney, Australia
Devine Erby Mazlin, Sydney, Australia
AWARDS:
1981 Poster design 'Sunday in the Park' selected for publication and statewide display
1998 Signs of the Times First Place Electric Signs USA
1990 Employee Study Scholarship
2014 Sydney Design Award First Place 'Wayfinding and Signage' Australia
PRESS APPEARANCES:
1981 Modern Publicity
1991 Financial Review, Australia
BOOKS:
Modern Publicity around 1981 for a poster Design 'Sunday in the Park'.
ACCOLADES:
1995, ‘DEM Employee Learning scholarship’ to travel the world researching my chosen topic which was ‘The Integration of Industrial Design and the Architectural Disciplines’. I went to USA, England, Germany, France, Italy and Hong Kong. Fascinated then by the innovation coming from the offices of Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano and Santiago Calatrava. Huge influence on my understanding of structural expression and detailing that Australian architects had never seen before, and I was able to inspire team the back home and broaden my design skills and confidence to push boundaries.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
English
COMPUTER LITERACY:
Freehand Old school, Illustrator CC 2017, InDesign CC 2017
COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS::
1998 Lecture at Parsons School of Design New York, USA
SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES::
2014 SEGD New York
2017 SEGD New Zealand
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:
1993 - 2017 Society of Experiential Graphic Design
COLLECTIONS:
1992 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Australia
HOBBIES:
Swim, surf, garden ... grow veggies and roses, renovate my home
CLIENTELE:
Too many to list!
WEB SITE:
www.annegordondesign.com
REGISTRATION DATE:
2017-02-28 01:21:00
COUNTRY/REGION:
Australia
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional
Awards received by Anne Gordon
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Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney Wayfinding Environmental Graphics Silver A' Design Award Winner for Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Category in 2016 AGD - Anne Gordon and Tim Walker for Health Infrastructure With Thiess Australia |
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