International School of Colour + Design

A seminar evening to scratch beneath the surface of the world of design.

Now on Wednesday September 22 AND Thursday September 23, 2010 the International School of Colour and Design will present ‘behind DESIGN'; an evening at their North Sydney School intended to scratch beneath the surface of the world of colour and design.

It will be an opportunity for the luminaries of the design world to share their stories with aspiring designers.

Those who will speak are people that create great design, from behind the pages of magazines we read, behind the fabrics we buy and behind the stylish homes we covet.

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Guest speakers on the night included:

Judith Briggs - Colour Consultants Australia

Judith is the Principal Colour Designer of Colour Consultants Australia and consults on residential and commercial colours and finishes. Judith commenced her studies with iscd in 2000 and thereafter formed her own company. She has consulted on a wide range of properties including heritage buildings, churches, high rise buildings, as well as various residential and commercial spaces and hospitality venues. Using a variety of colours and finishes, Judith enjoys creating a WOW factor for her clients. Judith has been the NSW Chairperson for The Colour Society of Australia since 2009 and organizes monthly events for people with an interest in learning more about colour.

Sarah Estens - Frost* Design

Sarah joined Frost in early 2007 after graduating from COFA, University of NSW, where she majored in graphic and spatial design and gained experience working in architectural practices.

In her role as Senior Designer in the Frost Environments team, Sarah plays a key part in developing creative concepts and manages projects through to completion. During her time at Frost Sarah has developed environmental graphics, branding, signage and wayfinding systems for a range of clients across Australia and overseas.
Sarah brings to the team a passion for interior design as well as experience in environmental design and visual identity systems. Her strong interest in the built environment and passion for merging 2D graphics with interior design has seen her explore how graphics can be expressed in the built form, for example, the SA Water Head office in Adelaide that features a 25m mesh installation hanging in the atrium.

Recently Sarah has developed signage and environmental graphics for the Prince Alfred Park Pool, alphabet signage for the All Accessibility Playground at Sydney Park and was instrumental in the creative development of Frost's Sculpture by the Sea artwork featured in October-November 2009. She is currently collaborating with a Canberra-based artist to create site-specific artwork for a corporate foyer, commissioned as a gift to the community of Canberra.

Shannon Fricke - Shannon Fricke Design

Shannon is an award-winning television presenter, author, interior designer and journalist. She is a well-known face on The Lifestyle Channel - presenting over 60 episodes of their award winning program, HOME - winning an Astra Award for Favourite Subscription Television Presenter.
She has authored three successful interior decorating books published by Murdoch Books. The books have received international acclaim and have been translated into Dutch, Danish, Spanish and Chinese!
Shannon regularly contributes to Inside Out magazine. Her trademark style can also be seen on the pages of Country Style magazine and the Australian Women's Weekly - reaching over 1 million readers per month. Internationally, her interior decorating work is showcased in Elle Decoration UK, Bolig Liv, Elle Décor Denmark, MarieClaire Netherlands.
Shannon is well known in the blogging community and her rapidly growing decorating/garden/lifestyle blog (shannonfricke.blogspot.com) attracts up to 100,000 hits per month from a local and international audience - and is supported by sponsors such as Murobond and Fiona Kate Storage.
However, Shannon's greatest love is for her ‘How To Decorate' Workshops that have been designed to mentor budding home decorators. Her fan base, made up of dedicated decorating enthusiasts, fly in from all over Australia to spend the day at her studio workshop in Bangalow, where they can learn the secret to creating a beautiful home.

Jason Grant - Real Living Magazine

Jason is a freelance interiors, lifestyle and props stylist bases in Sydney. He is also author to blog to www.mrjasongrant.com

Having worked in magazines for a number of years his work has appeared in Austalian and International magazines including Inside Out, Real Living, Australian Country Style, Notebook ,The Myer Emporium Magazine, Elle Decoration UK and Living etc.
He has also worked with some great brands including Wattyl, David Jones, Sunny Life, Mor Cosmetics, Jeans West, Sportsgirl and Myer.

His signature style is ecclectic a mixture of cute, colourful and quirky and always fun.

Beth Linz - Mokum Textiles

Born in Newcastle in 1984, at age five Beth attended Newcastle Steiner School where she spent the next thirteen years being surrounded by art, this is where Beth decided art and design was to be her future.
In 2002 she enrolled in an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art at Newcastle Tafe, majoring in Painting and Printmaking. After graduating in 2005 Beth moved to Brisbane with her family. While she was there she studied Interior Design but deep down always knew that what she wanted was to design textiles. 
In 2006 Beth managed to get a job in the beautiful Mokum showroom in Brisbane, that's where she met her present boss Stephanie Moffitt who was up from Sydney presenting her latest collection.

Three weeks after talking to Stephanie Beth was moving to Sydney and designing in the studio which is whereshe finds herself today.

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