Skeehan

Skeehan

SKEEHAN studio specialises in commercial furniture, lighting and product design. Directed by Industrial designer Tom Skeehan, the studio takes a material driven approach resulting in an informed design process that considers the long term lived experience of the product and its environment.


SKEEHAN studio specialises in commercial furniture, lighting and product design. Directed by Industrial designer Tom Skeehan, the studio takes a material driven approach resulting in an informed design process that considers the long term lived experience of the product and its environment.

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Introducing your 2022 Saturday Indesign speakers

Catch up with some of our industry’s top talents at this year’s Saturday Indesign speaker series.

Australian multidisciplinary studio, SKEEHAN unveils an exciting new identity

Established nearly a decade ago, Tom Skeehan brings purpose and an intuitive personality with the new soul of the SKEEHAN brand.

Launch Pad 2018 live judging: Finalists and entrants (Back row L-R): Max Leishman, Mac Nordman, Jeanie Mulligan. (Front row L-R): Isaac Francis, Dan Layden, Roberto Vessella, Tom Hewitt.

Mentoring the future faces of industrial design: Launch Pad 2018 live judging

Six finalists, together with an esteemed jury, all came together in Schiavello’s Sydney showroom for a morning of mentoring, followed by the live judging for Launch Pad 2018.

INDE.Awards 2017

A look back: INDE.Awards 2017 winners and themes

Your INDE.Awards Official Shortlist for 2018 is about to be announced. We cast our eyes back to the successful entries of 2017. What new directions will 2018 bring?

From the Publisher’s Desk

Another month has whisked by with plenty of action from all corners. Raj Nandan, Indesign Media Asia Pacific’s Publisher, recaps on the highlights throughout the month and what we’re looking ahead to in April.

Pulling The Rug Out

Having just launched their inaugural rug collection, Stylecraft reminds us that Australians continue to reimagine the design rulebook.

From the Publisher

Every month Raj Nandan, Indesign’s Founder and Publisher, will be wrapping up the various happenings and big news items that have hit the industry. It’s a curation of things from both us, and our industry friends, so you’ll never miss a beat again…

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Homegrown Heroes: Australian designers to keep your eye on

Practical, stylish, and transitioning easily between spaces, Australian furniture design is imbued with healthy doses of all the things that make our nation distinct: playfulness, a hardworking attitude, a diverse range of international influences, and a comfortable humility.

(L-R) International jurors Benjamin Hubert and Michael Young.

The jury is out for Launch Pad 2018 – the ultimate mentoring program!

Launch Pad has launched the careers of many local industrial designers. As a program focused on mentoring and manufacturing, it gives an incomparable chance to put your designs in front of local and international heavyweights.

2017 was the Year of the INDE.Awards – A new voice for APAC

The inaugural year of the INDE.Awards did what no other design awards program has done: unite our APAC region. We recap the winners as we anticipate what 2018’s cycle will bring.

Design Canberra is Back!

Canberra’s annual celebration of all things design, DESIGN Canberra, is back for 2017, and this year is inspired by the spirit of modernism, and is celebrating creativity, experimentation, and optimism.

You Won’t Believe What The Queen Of Green Design Has Created! – IDL

Sarah King continues her crusade towards a more sustainable world with two new exciting projects.

INDE.Awards 2017 | IndesignLive

Who Won At The Inaugural INDE.Awards?

On Friday 30th June, we announced winners of the very first INDE.Awards program. Couldn’t make it? Don’t stress! Here are your offIcial 2017 winners…

Tom Skeehan | IndesignLive

The Real vs Fake Debate

With the Productivity Commission’s final report on Intellectual Property Arrangements due to be handed to Government later this month, the discussion on copyright protection for designers has reached a crescendo.

Design Take Over Collingwood | IndesignLive

Design Take Over: Collingwood

The hottest style child to hit the Melbourne street scene is Collingwood. So what happened when MID took over?

Tom Skeehan | IndesignLive

In Profile: Tom Skeehan

Ashley Tucker speaks to Australian furniture designer Tom Skeehan about his design process, working with Australian manufacturers, and what it means to have a strong material narrative in your work.

Wes Collection by Tom Fereday for Zenith Interiors.

Top three things you need to know about Zenith Interiors

For an Australian company that has been around since the early 1950s, you’d think you’d know all there is to know about them. But here’s three things you might be surprised to learn what the Zenith brand is all about…

Local Design | IndesignLive

Local Design: Keeping it Local

What does Australian design look like? An exhibition of local talent at Salone del Mobile this year hoped to reveal just that.

Settled, but still setting standards: How one company is building the next design generation

We all must lead by example, but how can you lead an industry and, thereby, lead the future? We look at how Schiavello is nurturing tomorrow’s design greats.


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