The Big Design Market has helped boost the businesses of thousands of Australian designers by introducing them to passionate new audiences at their impressive events across Melbourne and Sydney. And this year, they’ve upped the ante again!
Thanks to The Big Design Market’s support of emerging designers, five talented Sydney market participants were lucky to share lunch and take a studio tour with Australian art legend Ken Done. Ken’s combination of business savvy and commitment to his creative practice make him the perfect candidate to share words of wisdom with these promising illustration-based designers.
We chat with the participants – Cassie Byrnes of Variety Hour, Maylin Evanochko of Mazdevallia, Penny Ferguson of Min Pin, Esther Sandler of Togetherness Design, and jewellery + accessories designer Emily Green – about what they learned from Ken to help foster a thriving independent design business. It would be hard not to be star-struck in the presence of Ken Done, but these illustrators were not afraid to pepper the art legend with plenty of questions to further their own careers!