Exasperation with design as an industry drove the context for Kylie’s final year industrial design project at University, causing her to generate a body of work addressing the potential positive effect of consumerist culture through industrial design. This project produced a conceptual transport system for children; combining the benefits of a bus service with a system of products in an attempt to form new patterns of behaviour that were hoped to bring about a fresh culture of public transport use.

Kylie’s favoured approach to design looks at researching the context of a project in order to draw from that new ideas and opportunities for development. More than two years spent undertaking analytical research and product development at Locus Research Ltd has allowed her to exercise this approach and provided a broad understanding of many different industries and fields of interest. An advocate for sustainable design thinking, she has also learnt tools and approaches that enable her to apply this as a fundamental philosophy in all the work she undertakes.

Harbouring a love for all things textile related; Kylie will be pursuing a short course of study in pattern drafting and garment construction in the latter part of 2009. With the addition of this new craft, she hopes to apply the knowledge as a different facet to her current design skills.

Areas of Specialty

• Textile Based Design
• Holistic Product Development
• Product Service Systems