Ideas are easy,” says industrial designer Nick Rennie. “It’s the manufacturing that’s difficult.” Fortunately for Nick, his refined approach to design is underpinned by a love of problem solving, an intuitive feel for materiality and an appreciation for commercial viability. “It’s been the focus of my practice over the last decade or so,” he explains.
As a student at Melbourne’s RMIT University, Nick received some shrewd advice from one of his mentors, Kjell Grant. “I was very lucky to fall under his tutelage and he got it into my head that I should work for myself from the beginning. It’s been one of the best things I’ve ever done – he gave me the push to really believe that I could do it.” With this advice in mind, Nick established his…
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