Casting Call for Designers, Innovators and Inventors

A Cast of Thousands are hoping to uncover Australia’s leading inventors, innovators and designers! They’re looking for product designers, engineers, industrial designers, inventors – anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit, who’s designed or invented items that solve real problems. You need to be a broad, lateral and practical thinker and able to work through different challenges […]

BY jesse

September 21st, 2011

A Cast of Thousands are hoping to uncover Australia’s leading inventors, innovators and designers!

They’re looking for product designers, engineers, industrial designers, inventors – anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit, who’s designed or invented items that solve real problems.

You need to be a broad, lateral and practical thinker and able to work through different challenges that will test the absolute limits of your abilities.

This is a show that anyone can apply for – anyone with that Aussie ingenuity, entrepreneurial spirit and ability to solve problems is encouraged to email them with your name, age, number and any examples of what you’ve designed and/or built.

Applications close Friday 23rd September.

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