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Rothauser, Charles, b.

Rothauser, an architecture-trained designer, working in injection-moulded plastics developed a range of toys, a disposable syringe c.1948. In 1956, he renamed his Adelaide factory Caroma ...

Burtenshaw, Rowland, b. 1899

Designer who also taught silver-smithing and metalwork in the new post-war courses at Fremantle Technical School.

Rudd, Iris Lorna, b. 1893

Early 20th century Regional Queensland painter, photographer and craftworker. As well as inheriting a strong Protestant work ethic and sense of duty, Iris had initiative ...

Rushby, Charlotte, b. 1833

Charlotte Rushby was about nineteen when she made the model cottage, now in the Powerhouse Museum. She also made a model of an Aboriginal camp ...

McDermott, Ruth, b.

Sydney-based lighting designer who originally trained and worked as an industrial designer. McDermott's practice has spanned architectural, residential, corporate and site-specific art projects.

Ryan, Mamie

Mamie Ryan was Art Director of Allworths Industries, industrial designers and manufacturers of shop fittings for department stores.

Crow, John F. S., b. 1925

Crow was a designer for Stuart's furniture, South Yarra, Victoria. He trained in the Melbourne Technical College industrial and interior design programme. In 1949, he ...

Sandford, Barbara

Sandford was a designer for General Motors Holden (GMH) Woodville, South Australia developing colour ways and interiors ("colour and trim"). According to Judith Glover and ...

Nowina-Sapinski is an industrial designer, USA citizen, resident in Australia in the 1960s [dates uncertain], industrial designer Consolidated Electrodynamics Corp., Pasadena, Latham Tyler, Jensen, Product ...

Gibson, Sarah

Gibson studied industrial design at the University of Technology Sydney and the Fachhochschule, Hannover, Germany. She has also worked as a journalist and photographer for ...

Midgley, Sarah, b. 1864

Doll maker and businesswoman, worked in Queensland and Sydney NSW, produced ceramic-faced dolls that were sold nationally and internationally.

Saunders, Ethel Grace, b. 1913

Commercial artist and painter who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts.

Sayer, Bryan

Bryan Sayer is a designer working from a gallery C20 Decorative Arts, Paddington in the late 1980s.. His G'Day chair (1988) was designed in partnership ...

Schremmer, Paul, b. 1929

Schremmer began his career designing white goods. In 1965, he was the President of the Society of Industrial Designers of Australia (SIDA). He established his ...

Sear, Brian, b. 1932

Sear is an industrial designer with studies at the Royal College of Art, later, Konstfackskolan Stockholm, returning to Australia in 1963, working as a Senior ...