Melbourne Design Week: Making Marks
- Where
Queen & Collins
376–390 Collins Street
Melbourne - When
25 May 2023
4–5:30pm - PublishedApril 21, 2023
“What does it take to go beyond being a creative with a good idea, to being a creative that makes an impact, and how hard is it really to build something that isn’t damaging the communities around us?”
This is the hefty prompt for Marking Marks: The Valuable Components of a Brand, a panel hosted by IP property specialists Griffith Hack as part of Melbourne Design Week. Our very own Barrie Barton will be speaking alongside fashion designer Gary Bigeni, environmental scientist (and Right Angle alumni) Evan Kerivan and Griffith Hack Principal Edith Hamilton. These four creative minds will discuss the evolving nature of design, ideas that leave the world in a better place, branding practices and intellectual property in both the on and offline worlds.
Making Marks is a free event, but bookings are essential.
Event Speakers
Gary Bigeni pushes the limits of fashion as individual expression through his custom made-to-order fine art collections. Original designs are hand painted by Gary directly onto ethically sourced eco-cotton, then made in very limited production runs using sustainable manufacturing practices. Intended to last a life-time, all pieces are gender neutral and designed to reflect the distinctive personality of the wearer.
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Barrie Barton is co-founder and Group CEO of Right Angle, Golden Age and Paramount Recreation Club. A lawyer by qualification, an entrepreneur by nature and an urbanist by profession, he has spent most of his adult life thinking about the relationship between the places where we live and the sorts of people we become as a result. In late 2019 he was named one of Harper’s Bazaar’s Visionary Men for his contribution to city life.
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Evan Kerivan is an environmental scientist and the Program Manager at Sustainable Oil Recovery. Sustainable Oil Recovery develop innovative solutions for the capture of hydrocarbon and petrochemical pollutants that lie upon the surface of our waterways. Evan has a masters degree from the University of Sydney, specialising in estuary science. Prior to joining SOR, he worked for NASA as a dropsonde scientist. He also has extensive project management experience, consulting on projects across major state government infrastructure and large retail developments.
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Edith Hamilton is a patent and trade marks attorney at Griffith Hack based in Melbourne, known in IP circles for her keen interest in sustainability and supporting innovative design. She is committed to spending time with clients to understand their objectives and works with them to develop pragmatic and creative approaches to IP matters in order to identify and reach strategic goals.
Whilst her technical expertise embraces mechanical engineering, materials science and chemistry, her experience extends into in the areas of fast moving consumer goods, including packaging; advanced materials production and processing; fibre and textile technology; process engineering; and clean technology.
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