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Saunders, Ethel Grace, b. 1913
Commercial artist and painter who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts.
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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 ...
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 ...
Owen, Evelyn, b. 1915
Evelyn Owen was a self-taught designer who developed and made a unique rapid-firing weapon (Owen Gun) described in the official Commonwealth history Australia in the ...
Furey, Charles, b. 1917
Furey was a Society of Designers for Industry foundation member, an International Design Institute of Australia Vice President, a Society of Industrial Designers President amongst ...
Coffey, Selwyn, b. 1918
Designer and co-founder, Kempthorne Lighting, a company that began in 1931 as Kempthorne Lighting Works.
Coffey, Joyce, b. 1918
Designer for Kempthorne Lighting along with her husband Selwyn Coffee. Kempthorne began in 1931 as Kempthorne Lighting Works. Coffey also worked as a mechanical and ...
Culbert, Bill, b. 1918
Culbert studied at the Free School of Mechanical Trades, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed and manufactured cases for radios in St Peters, a Sydney manufacturing suburb, later ...
Lakides, Amy, b. 1919
Well known and influential china painter, painter on silk and interior designer. Her first lessons in porcelain painting were under Flora Landells.
Forbes-Smith, Ira Eleanor Elizabeth, b. 1920
Designer of textiles, painter, china painter, leatherworker and art teacher. Forbes-Smith showed regularly with the Western Australian Women Painters and Applied Arts Society. In the ...
Lindesay, James Vane Crawford, b. 1920
Late 20th century Melbourne cartoonist, illustrator, writer and book designer. A prolific Australian cartoon historian.
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.
Robinson, Arthur J., b. 1921
Robinson trained as a graphic designer at East Sydney Technical College and from his studio in Sydney, later in Canberra, he worked for a diverse ...
Voudouris, George, b. 1921
He taught commercial illustration to the evening part-time classes at Perth Technical College from 1969-1981 and was a highly respected freelance commercial artist.
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Byrne, Arthur, b. 1923
Byrne was a steel fabricator, later designing and manufacturing the B & D Roll-a-Door in partnership with Paul Davidson. The Roll-a-Door was originally designed by ...
Robison, Oenwen Joan, b. 1924
Artist who was a student of Flora Landells and graduate and teacher at the Perth Technical School.
Brim, Zaphne M., b. 1925
Exhibited with the Western Australian Women's Society of Fine Arts and Crafts in 1960.