License A Design
Home décor, interior design, and luxury textiles, license designs from the Australian Museum of Design (AMoD) library. By incorporating these rich, culturally significant designs, they have created unique and highly desirable products that resonate with consumers, due to the powerful narrative behind them of preserving Australian design history.
Wallpaper Production
If you have a stunning design on wallpaper or fabric, our expert partner team can assist in bringing it to life once again. Whether it’s reproducing or expanding your design, our team have the expertise to help you create more, ensuring your design continues to shine in any setting.
Design Restoration
Design Restoration of wallpaper or fabric, by our expert partner team helps you to bring it back to life. Whether you need to reproduce an existing design or expand it for new applications, we have the resources and expertise to help you create more, ensuring your design continues to make an impact in any space.
Darren Taylor – Founding Member
Darren is that rare entrepreneur who listens as well as he speaks, whose facilitation workshops and brand vision models are exercises in creativity that elicit laughter as well as insight. Educated at Swinburne University of Technology and RMIT in Engineering, Marketing and International Trade and The National Theatre in Music Theatre, he worked at a number of creative agencies before starting Taylor & Grace in 2006.
Nicole Smith – Founding Member
Nicole Smith is considered one of the most experienced and creative marketers in the Australian architecture, property and construction industries. Her research-driven approach, combined with an entrepreneurial nature and creative eye, make her unique among her peers. Nicole also serves as a non-executive director on the board of Siren Design, one of Australasia’s leading interior design firms, where she helps to drive the long-term strategy, branding and marketing of the firm.
Dominic Emmett – Founding Member
Dominic Emmett is recognised by his peers and clients as a preeminent Restructuring Lawyer in the Australian legal market. Dominic specialises in non-contentious restructuring and insolvency work for banks and financial institutions as well as special situations groups and credit funds.
His 30 year experience includes having taken lead roles on situations such as Ansett, Alinta Energy, Centro, Allco Finance …
Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil – Founding Member
Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil is an award-winning design historian who works at University of Technology Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
He began his career researching Australian design. His first thesis, ‘Designing Women’ (1920-1940) discovered a lost of world of Sydney interior design by women and gay men, and he stitched their contributions as …
Claudia Chan Shaw – Founding Member
With a BA in Visual Communication Design from Sydney College of the Arts, she is co-designer and director for the internationally acclaimed Australian fashion label, Vivian Chan Shaw. The label is renowned for its exquisite handmade knitwear and jewellery. The designs are represented in the permanent collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Claudia has curated a number of fashion exhibitions including Vivian Chan Shaw – 40 Years, A Retrospective and Alfredo Bouret Retrospective, a tribute to the great fashion artist.
Finding David Miles
7 boxes from our design library to re-discover designs from the original David Miles collection that had not been seen by the public for more than 30 years.
ABC News Sydney
Thank you to the ABC News Sydney for covering the Australian Museum of Design and highlighting the importance of protecting our design library of 7,500, original hand drawn designs from Australian artists.