Assessment Panel

Currently Chief Experience Officer with Westpac Banking Corporation, Ian Muir is responsible for Service Design and design strategy, with a focus on digital initiatives to shape the future of financial services.

His track record of delivery has led to customer voted awards and recognition of industry innovations across consumer, business and corporate environments. Ian’s 18 years in financial services was preceded by 10 years in industrial automation where his creative problem solving was applied to manufacturing and process industries in a variety of sales, marketing, product management and software development roles.

Ian also does freelance work with local and international organisations consulting on service design and design strategy, is a design mentor to startups and entrepreneurs and a regular presenter and panelist at conferences and forums.

Tony is Professor of Industrial Design and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor of the College of Creative Arts at Massey University Wellington. He has made an outstanding contribution to New Zealand Industrial Design research and leadership over the past three decades.

A graduate of the prestigious Royal College of Art (London), he is one of New Zealand’s most awarded industrial designers. Awards include eleven Best Design Awards from the Designers Institute of New Zealand; Plastics Institute of New Zealand awards, a European Equitana innovation award; a French Innov’ Space award; a Royal Society of Artists bursary study award and a New Zealand State Services Commission Study Award.

His design approach is exemplified by his award-winning designs for Gallagher Industries (agricultural, security and fuel equipment) and the Hulme F1 and Can Am supercars. He is a Fellow and Immediate Past President of the Designers Institute of New Zealand and has wide experience of several national university scholarship award committees including the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders' Fellowships.

Daneta Crump is a patent attorney who has been working in the field of mechanical and manufacturing engineering patents and industrial design protection for over 12 years. Daneta has a Bachelor of Engineering in Product Design Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology and is current Chair of the External Advisory Committee for this course. She also regularly lectures in IP to design undergraduates.

Daneta works closely with some of Australia’s best known design companies throughout the design process, assisting them to gauge and mitigate infringement risk and develop customised protection strategies. Her industrial design background provides her with the ability to pre-empt alternative design solutions to maximise protection.

She regularly works with design teams on redesigning products to avoid infringement. She is a specialist in registered designs, creating tailored filing strategies taking into consideration the commercial realities of product development and her client’s business as well as the unique legal requirements in their key markets.

Daneta also prepares and prosecutes patent applications in Australia and overseas, working in numerous technology areas, including medical devices and instrumentation, hand tools, consumer products, manufacturing processes, and the building industry, including building products, methods and safety equipment.

Daneta is an Associate Member of the Design Institute of Australia, a Member of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand and a Fellow of the Institute of Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys of Australia.

Neil has over 40 years' experience in the design industry having founded the practice now known as BKH in the late 1960s. Today, BKH is regarded as one of the country's foremost interior consultancies and has provided complete architectural services to several landmark projects such as Republic in Darlinghurst and Post in Potts Point, Sydney.

Neil founded the furniture distributor, Anibou in the late 1980s and left BKH in 1995 to concentrate on this and other property interests. Anibou distributes quality products that are well designed and made. Its range includes the work of some of Australia's best designers such as Tomek Archer, Frank Bauer, Caroline Casey, Gary Galego, Jon Goulder, Johan Larsson, Henry Pilcher and Paul Morris. Its classic modern products come from Finland, Germany, Switzerland and Italy and include designs by Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Eileen Grey, Konstantin Grcic, Sauerbruch Hutton, Glen Oliver Loew, Mies Van der Rohe, Mart Stam and Hanspeter Steiger.

David Bull has more than 20 years' experience in the electronics industry and has worked for State Rail, Wormald Data Systems, Macquarie University and Polartechnics as Engineering Manager.

In the mid 1990s, he started an electronic design consultancy, today BCS Electronic Design. In addition to developing award winning telecommunications products, BCS won the 2003 Australian Design Award of the Year for the development of the Betachek G5 Blood Glucose Meter.

David has a Bachelor of Science in Computing and Electronics, as well as Master of Science (Research) in adaptive speech coding for telephony systems. He is a signatory for seven patents in the area of medical electronics and is frequently asked to lecture in specialty areas of technology development.

David's past clients include Cochlear, Energy Australia, Medtronic, Polartechnics, Tyco and American Express.

Alex holds a Masters of Design degree from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and a dual degree (magna cum laude) in Anthropology and Spanish from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to his client engagements, Alex also co-leads Second Road's Social Design Initiative, working on a development project with leaders in West Papua.

An avid photographer, sailor and Ultimate Frisbee competitor - he plays just as hard as he works.

As Principal of Design Momentum, a Sydney based Product Design firm, Craig has been responsible for a diverse range of products and programs for more than 25 years in the consumer, sporting, industrial and medical industries, both nationally and internationally.

Prior to establishing Design Momentum in 2001, Craig spent twelve years as senior designer and manager of Product Development, with an international design consultancy in the USA.

Craig was involved with the design and development of ‘Abiocore’ - the world’s first totally artificial heart as well as multiple other medical products. He was also a driver of new product lines for Zodiac’s global Water Care market and Design Momentum have developed new technologies for a number of Australian companies.

Craig holds a Masters in Design and firmly believes that accomplishments only come from the combined efforts of a gifted team and client involvement. Craig still attempts surfing and skateboarding, but is told he suffers badly from ‘old man’ syndrome.

Glen has worked across a broad range of industries initially working as a professional musician and instrument repair technician. During this time he began to see the injuries that musicians suffered and design aspects of instruments that could be improved.

He then worked as an occupational therapist in both hospital and private setting. This was followed by employment as a senior ergonomist and inspector working in the hazard management branch of WorkSafe Victoria, focusing on industries including public sector, manufacturing, logistics and agriculture.

Glen now works as a consultant and has provided ergonomic design and health and safety advice for many of the public transportation providers and construction works currently in progress in Victoria. He has also provided expert witness evidence on a number workplace and civil liability legal matters in a number of states across Australia.

He is currently the Victorian Chair and Victorian representative on the National Board of The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia. He is a Certified Professional Ergonomist, a Member of The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia and a Registered Occupational Therapist.

Glen is a member of the La Trobe University Health, Safety and Ergonomics and Victoria University's Sports Engineering Faculty Advisory Committees.

Madeline co-founded design firm Interni in 1988 and Madeline Lester + Associates (MLA) in 2005. She has more than 35 years' experience as an interior designer and a design management consultant working on residential, retail, hospitality and commercial projects.

Madeline is Past President of the International Federation of Interior Architects and Designers (IFI). She is also a Past National President of the Design Institute of Australia and the current Adjunct Associate Professor of Interior Architecture at the University of New South Wales. Madeline is well known as a keynote speaker at international conferences as a design professional. She remains on the Course Advisory Panels of Raffles University of Design in Singapore, the Interior Architecture Program at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and The Designed Environments degree programs at Think Education, Billy Blue.

Ross qualified as a Production Engineer working with British Leyland as a jig and tool designer. He then became Global Equipment Development Manger with SC Johnson (USA), sourcing and developing new equipment which could be integrated with SCJ’s Commercial chemical range allowing them to promote unique cleaning systems.

Ross also held the position of Managing Director of Dyson Appliances, responsible for all business functions in ANZ and Singapore. Ross started the business in 1996 with James Dyson and grew it to become the market leader all categories. This role also required on-going input on new product design to ensure product met local requirements. In association with the original Australian Design Awards, Ross played a key part in sponsoring and developing the highly successful Student Design Awards program which ran for more than 10 years in Australia.