Ian Wong

  • Designer ,
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Curator (Industrial / Product Designer)
Wong is an industrial designer, collector, curator and senior lecturer at Monash University. He currently Director of the Monash Art Design and Architecture Industrial Design Centre (Kunshan) and Program Director – Master of Industrial Design at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Monash University.

Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame 2023 citation:

Ian Wong
Industrial Design

Ian Wong is an award-winning industrial designer, collector, curator and senior lecturer at Monash University.

Ian has been invited to curate exhibitions about his research on Australian Design in; Milan, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tianjin, Suzhou, Sydney, Adelaide, Launceston, Melbourne and his hometown of Shepparton. Exhibitions have included EVERYDAY Australian Design, 100 Objects | Australian Design in the home, I-CONIC Australian Design, 60 Years of Good Design, BlackBOX – Design and Innovation | Melbourne Australia, Innovators – Australian Design and Innovation, Zmood – Designing Holdens, and 150 Years of Design in Victoria.

The Ian Wong Collection has been a work in progress associated with his research and currently has over 2100 objects designed by Australian designers.

Products designed by Ian as a director of EJO Design have ranged from one-off objects like the RMIT University Ceremonial Mace to brain-scanning equipment, Antarctic sleds, and million-dollar high-speed agricultural sorting equipment. Ranges like the pak range for Silvan Australia have recently been reported as the ‘hills hoist’ of rural Australian farm life. This range continues to create significant commercial success for Silvan. Ian’s first product for Silvan, the trukpak, was designed in 1989 and is still very successful, and most farms in Australia would have an effect designed by Ian.

Ian is currently Director of the Monash Art Design and Architecture Industrial Design Centre (Kunshan) and Program Director – Master of Industrial Design at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Monash University. This double Master’s degree is delivered at the Southeast University-Monash University Joint Graduate School Suzhou in China.

In 2021 Ian was awarded a Good Design Australia’s Gold Design for Design Research. Ian is the President of the Melbourne Movement and the China representative and Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia.

Writers:

Michael Bogle
Date written:
2023
Last updated:
2023