Designers:
Nexus Designs + Design Futures Lab
Nexus Designs delivers distinctive, enduring and personal outcomes at the forefront of Australian design. The studio offers a truly integrated service of interior design, product development, colour and trend analysis, graphic design and communications, working within the residential, commercial, government, education and building product manufacturing sectors. Multi-disciplinary to the core, Nexus Designs transcends categories and convention to elevate interiors, product design and visual communications and influence the lives and homes of contemporary Australia. Design Futures Lab is a forward-thinking collaborative space led by Danielle Storm that unites students and industry professionals in ambitious, long-term projects with a sustainability focus.
Project: Grounded 02
Grounded 02 by Nexus Designs and Design Futures Lab for Material Matters 02 investigates the potential of spent coffee grounds as a bio-based material using only natural binding agents. This collaboration focuses on the bringing together of youthful insight, scientific interrogation and design innovation to investigate the development of sustainable materials. Nexus Designs and Design Futures Lab, a secondary school makers laboratory, partnered with young minds from Sacred Heart College, Geelong, to focus on using the waste resource of spent coffee grounds to create innovative biomaterials that are both circular and regenerative.
Category: Use
Designers and Project Team:
DesiNexus Designs
Sally Evans MDIA, Director | Graphic Design and Product Development
Sonia Simpfendorfer MDIA, Director | Interior Design
+ Myra Murtagh MDIA, Sidney Ford, Robyn Cooper, Michael Malignaggi & Dianne Roderick
Design Futures Lab
Danielle Storm, Founder | Industrial Designer
30+ Students (Years 7-12) Sacred Heart College Geelong