Andrew Simpson talking at Purpose 2016 on environmental sustainability in large scale production & consumerism.
Fascinating forms; giant pollen structures carved from stone. Vert's work with Sydney artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso are now on display around the new Darling Harbour Development.
New batch of handmade Stilla Carafes coming soon complete with new & improved packaging; an environmentally optimised protective keep-box.
Celebrating in style... Bollinger Champagne; Life Can Be Perfect 2016 event at Shelly Beach Boat House featuring Vert's Balmain Boat ice buckets. Check out the project here.
Vert Design have been working together with NRMA Insurance & M&C Saatchi's innovation partner Tricky Jigsaw to create The NRMA Fireblanket; an early bushfire detection & monitoring network. Check out the full project here.
Vert Design & Depot Creative pick up Silver at the 2016 Pentawards for their collaborative work on new product & brand; Baré Cosmetics. Check out the full project here.
Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital explores the increasingly important role of digital manufacture in contemporary art, science, fashion, design and architecture. The exhibition features Vert Design project transforming the iconic 2D artworks of Lucien Henry into physical 3D pieces. The exhibition is on now until 25 June 2017.
Catch Andrew Simpson speaking about the future of Australian manufacturing on the opening night of Sydney Design Festival 2016, for event information click here.
Andrew Simpson is heading over to France for a week of live judging at the Cannes Lions
International Festival of Creativity.
Andrew Simpson is speaking at Vivid Sydney 2016 about the benefits of using 3D printing & rapid prototyping technologies in industrial design, and the future of design, manufacturing and construction evolving with the rapid pace of technology.
We're very pleased The Dieline Award 2016 have given second place to the Vert Design & Depot Creative collaborative project; Baré Cosmetics. Check out the full project here.
Vert Design worked on a project to make the perfect glass for creating, serving & drinking the ultimate Old Fashioned, a hand-crafted batch run of individually unique glasses were produced for the Maker’s Mark Old Fashioned Week event that runs from 12th - 20th May 2016. This is the 'making of' video and you can find out more about the project here.
Vert Design & Depot Creative pick up a Gold award at the 2016 A' Design Awards for their collaborative work on new product & brand; Baré Cosmetics. Check out the full project here.
Baré Cosmetics launch in Australia with an elegant & unique glass bottle & stunning brand identity, designed by Vert Design & Depot Creative. Check out the full project here.
The Vert design team took a field trip to get their hands dirty & make a series of custom folding knives - 2.5 days of absorbing knowledge from Australia's leading bladesmiths at Tharwa Valley Forge & excising some good old fashioned craftsmanship.
O Six Hundred Kayak features in this months Smith Journal.
Vert worked with the team at THERE to create a sculptural art wall installation for global property expert's Knight Frank.
Vert designed & developed the GEOHEX Erosion Control System, click here for project details.
Today is the launch of the One Education Infinity, a modular tablet computer for kids. Click here to find out more & to back the project.
O Six Hundred kayak features in two independent digital magazines this month; Uncrate and GearHungry.
O Six Hundred Kayak features in this months issue of Ben&Co. and is now featuring in a year long exhibition at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.
Ben Cooper and Andrew Simpson collect Product Design - Sport and Lifestyle 'Best In Category' from the Good Design Award® with their O Six Hundred skin on frame kayak.
The work-in-progress Vert project XO-Infinity, modular hybrid laptop featured in WIRED.
Deus Australia calls on Andrew to help sand cast new aluminium badges for a custom build; the BMW x Deus R-Nine T.
The O Six Hundred Kayak exhibits in the Good Design Awards 2015.
Sydney Morning Herald's Digital Life takes a sneak peak at Vert Design's 'work in progress' prototype for One Education, the XO Infinity is low-cost modular laptop with parts that can be updated as a child gets older & technology changes, aiming to give the device a lifespan of ten years, instead of obsolete in two.
JamFactory: Gallery One
GLASS: art design architecture showcases 23 outstanding projects by contemporary Australian artists, designers and architects. It represents a cross-section of current creative practices and relationships to this versatile material.
This exhibition will then tour to 14 venues nationally.
Exhibitors: Andrew Simpson (Vert Design)
Feature article in this month's Belle magazine on the Nest at DesignEX with Andrew and his hand blown glass pendants.
Andrew is now a mentor at Incubate - the award winning startup accelerator and entrepreneur events to foster a proactive community and help launch successful startup ventures at Sydney University.
Compassionate Voices is a unique exhibition celebrating animals, art and creativity. The exhibition is a collaboration between Voiceless, the animal protection institute; Koskela, and a collection of 31 innovative Australian artists and designers.
Andrew has designed the Whittier Whittier birdhouse specifically to protect and feed wrens (including the Superb Fairy Wren) which are in decline in Sydney. The birdhouse consists of two timber pieces and two glass parts designed specifically to provide food and water to the birds.
Andrew has been invited to The Other Hemisphere exhibition, first exhibiting at
Ventura Lambrate in Milan then designEX in Sydney.
Andrew was featured on ABC's 'The Business' giving a response to what the new budget means for innovation business.
Design for Change has written a feature article on Andrew discussing design and sustainability.
Andrew has been invited to talk on Creative Ways to Change the World. The talk is on May 24 from 6:30pm at Vivid Ideas Exchange, Museum of Contemporary Art.
Impressed by the Junk Press, Maud collaborated with us to utilise this technique for coasters for the worlds biggest advertising conference. Looking at the function of a coaster and using design thinking to take this further than just print design, we hand made these coasters with raised details to stop the glass from sticking.
A project with Supercyclers, that considers waste as a resource that we have not worked out what to do with. The Junk Press challenges the perception of junk mail being rubbish, and instead utilises trash as a raw material that is delivered daily for free. The press is sand cast in aluminium and has interchangeable moulds to make a range of bowls, plates, lunchboxes light shades and cups.
Now partnering with Sneaking Duck, we're really excited to introduce 3D selective laser sintered glasses to a larger audience.
Career Tracker awards designed for branding agency There. The awards are turned Australian hardwoods and laser etched matte black aluminium.
Balmain Boat Company featured in Incu's Edition magazine.
We're now able to show a project we completed last year with The Monkeys to launch the Intel 2 in 1 Ultrabook. More info here.
Latest issue of Belle magazine which features our Incalmo vase.
A project we worked on with Benjamin Shine called 'Re-Kindle' as the candle burns the wax is collected, ready to be re-used in another candle!
Some new glass casting we've been doing for Adam Goodrum.
Exciting times ahead in 2014 we'll be working with Sneaking Duck on a project!
News came this week that we had been highly commended in the Australian Packaging Design Awards 2013, which is always good news especially considering we didn't enter!
Andrew's contribution to the 'Here and Now: Lucky' exhibit at Carriageworks. Lucky has been curated by Liane Rossler to feature works by Australian and New Zealand creatives. The concept is to explore the idea of luck and interpret their findings through design and art.
&company turns 4 so to celebrate they're having a party! We're joining the party with our ow pressure injection moulding machine for people to have a go with.
Monday 9 Dec, 6-9pm. RSVP here.
Pier 8 Cafe, 23 Hickson Road Walsh Bay
Some wooden moulds we've been making for Adam Goodrum.
Wax grenades for Collective Co.
Danny's Pocket Gym!
First renderings for a new coconut cruncher.
Testing prototypes for Purina!
Spinning and shaping glass
Experimenting with moulds for coils
Gladys McKenzie's tongue scraper samples.
Andrew's limited edition cast bronze Water Charms
Some quick experimentations with polypropylene folding to create interlocking opening and closing forms.
Pecha Kucha Vol. 23 at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. Andrew spoke alongside Alexia Estrellado, Adam Simpson, Mark Vaarwerk, Anthony Matthews, James Nathan and Robert Beson who all shared their inspiring stories on the theme of the cultural impact of innovation and technology.
We've been experimenting with scanning and re-producing ourselves.
Sneak peek of a new project with our friends at MoffittMoffitt.
Presents! Thanks Intel!
More experimentation with 3D printed CO2 rockets today.
We're very pleased to announce the lovely people from D&AD have awarded Alaskan Rock with a packaging design award.
Wallpaper* Magazine, curator of all things cool in terms of design, interiors, fashion, art, and lifestyle have included our incalmo vases in their latest print editorial.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso has transforms the MCA for her exhibition of the Museum of Copulatory Organs (MoCO) or "Sex Everywhere*". The installation celebrates the diversity and complexity in genitalic structures across the animal kingdom, first shown at the 18th Biennale of Sydney in 2012.
We're really excited to join in on at the Art Bar where Andrew will be there with our 3D printer, making models of reproductive morphologies. But if watching is more your thing, you’ll enjoy X-rated screenings of snails mating, penis fencing and shark threesomes on Friday 26 July at the MCA and tickets can be purchased here.
*sex is prohibited in the Museum
He Made She Made gallery on Oxford Street, invited 21 artists and designers (including ourselves) to create and display a bespoke mask as part of their Masked Intentions exhibition and publication release. No conceptual or material boundaries to the masks have been adhered to other than that they must be wearable and fit a human sized head. The finished masks take on various forms, presenting unique stories of their genuine/fictional significance to the world and their creators. The exhibition is on until June 9 2013.
Our contribution to the show, entitled 'A Glimpse of Another' conceals facial emotion and allows the wearer to hear and react privately to dialogue and/or their environment. The mask highlights the importance of neutrality and respect through its maze of intricate cuts and precision detailing. The mask was a billet of aluminium which we CNC Machined in our Redfern Studio. We were really pleased with the results and delighted to be included in such a great exhibition with 20 other Australian artists and designers we admire. There are also 20 signed and numbered editions of the print available for purchase through He Made She Made's online store.
Monument magazine has featured Andrew in their May issue. The spread titled "Inside The Mind Of" is a collection of what drives and inspires Andrew in his everyday practice. These range from carved stone neolithic balls, the yachting industry, scientific methodology and the speed with which life passes us by are all motivators and influence for Andrew. It's always nice to be included with such a high standard that Monument is known for. The rest of the issue includes features on some innovative products, features on other designers and architectural wonders.
United Nationals' Regional Seas Program estimates more than 6 million tonnes of debris enter the world's oceans each year. This debris never biodegrades, instead it breaks into smaller and smaller pieces of the original item, forever remaining in the environment. We've been working with Luke McConell from Revolve Your World who collects this debris and plastic litter from the beaches of far North Queensland. We've put this collection of debris through a small extruder and broken this down into small pellets. We're now working on developing a large scale industrial system to break down this debris and recycle it and use it for easy integration into new products.
Viajiyu was founded by Nicole Still, co-founder of The Balmain Boat Company, storyteller and entrepreneur. Nicole started wondering about the great shoemakers and what their business would be like if they started in the Digital Age. She wanted to create the perfect pair of ballet flats for the modern woman. The woman who travels for work and play. Conceives businesses, as well as, children.
Viajiyu allows the user to become the designer and choose from a range of customisations of colours and styles to develop the perfect pair of ballet flats hand made in Tuscany, Italy. We developed the renderings for the website that allow the user to pick and choose the different elements for their flats.
Interpretations is an ongoing exhibition Andrew curates biennially (every two years) which challenges the participating designers to embrace a new process or material and produce something, the brief is very open. Different local Sydney designers get together and share ideas in regards to a theme or particular manufacturing process that has to be adopted in order to exhibit.
This year the chosen theme is Stone. Also, this is the first year Interpretations IIII will be held at Object Gallery on Bourke St, Surry Hills. The exhibition will be on display from 26 February - 21 March and exhibits work from Michael Alvisse, Tasman Munro, Andrew Simpson, Guy Keulemans, Henry Wilson, Oliver Smith, Charles Wilson and Liane Rossler.
For more information on the exhibition please refer to the interpretations website.
There have been some lovely reviews of the exhibition featured online:
HabitusLiving.com
These are gold and white gold wedding bands were developed and made for Mark Nichols which have his fiance's fingerprint etched onto the inside of the wedding band.
We are blessed with having the opportunity to teach and learn from work experience and internship students coming to the studio. This also means we get to see what talent is coming up. Brandon Wong is no exception. Brandon is a 15 year old grade 10 student who learned to use solidworks from scratch, and designed his own glasses which he now prints and sells in just one week with us.
With summer quickly approaching, Mitch and Andrew have been working away at the new 16ft Balmain Boat Company prototypes. Pretty soon we'll be off getting the timber cut and building the tests in the coming weeks.
We love it when good materials age well, instead of deteriorating, time and exposure have enhanced these glasses. On the left 3D printed glasses Andrew has worn everyday for the past year, and on the right are a new pair.