澳大利亚优良设计协会是一个国际设计推广组织,负责管理澳大利亚优良设计奖和澳大利亚设计委员会。澳大利亚设计委员会(Australian Design Council)最近重新成立,成为一个非营利行业组织,倡导设计引领澳大利亚的未来,并倡导设计在应对复杂的社会、经济和环境挑战方面的作用和重要性。澳大利亚优良设计协会(Good Design Australia)一直致力于宣传设计对商业、工业、政府和公众的重要性,以及它在创造一个更美好、更安全、更繁荣的世界中发挥的重要作用。







布兰登·基恩 博士


澳大利亚优良设计协会首席执行官


布兰登·基恩(Brandon Gien)博士是澳大利亚优良设计协会(Good Design Australia)的首席执行官,并担任澳大利亚优良设计奖(Good Design Awards)的主席,该奖项是澳大利亚持续时间最长的设计和创新奖项,起源可以追溯到1958年。布兰登是一名工业设计师,在过去的25年里,他一直在倡导设计的价值,以提高我们的社会、经济、文化和环境的生活质量。他是世界设计组织(WDO)的参议员,该组织是总部设在加拿大蒙特利尔的全球工业设计机构,2013年至2015年,他当选为WDO主席,是第一位担任该职位的澳大利亚人。


布兰登·基恩博士拥有堪培拉大学设计与建筑学院环境设计博士学位,并在堪培拉大学和新南威尔士大学担任工业设计兼职教授。


此外,布兰登还加入了在澳大利亚上市的米高梅无线有限公司(MGM Wireless Limited)——一家设计和开发突破性可穿戴技术的澳大利亚科技公司的董事会,并担任了最近成立的澳大利亚设计委员会(Australian Design Council)的执行董事。


布兰登被任命为日本设计大使,这是一个由日本设计推广研究所组织的荣誉国际设计宣传角色。





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Good Design Australia is an international design promotion organisation responsible for managing Australia’s annual Good Design Awards and the Australian Design Council. The Australian Design Council was recently re-established as a not-for-profit industry body to advocate for a design-led future for Australia and to champion the role and importance of design to address complex social, economic and environmental challenges. With a proud history that dates back to 1958, Good Design Australia remains committed to promoting the importance of design to business, industry, government and the general public and the critical role it plays in creating a better, safer and more prosperous world.







DR. BRANDON GIEN


CEO


Dr. Brandon Gien is the CEO of Good Design Australia and Chair of Australia's annual Good Design Awards – the longest running awards program for design and innovation in Australia with its origins dating back to 1958. Brandon is an Industrial Designer and has spent the past 25 years advocating for the value of design to improve our social, economic, cultural and environmental quality of life at a national and international level. He is a Senator of the World Design Organization (WDO), the global body for Industrial Design based in Montreal, Canada. He was elected President of the WDO from 2013 to 2015, the first Australian to hold this position.


Dr. Gien holds a PhD in Environmental Design from the University of Canberra's School of Design and Architecture and is an Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at both the University of Canberra and the University of New South Wales.


Among other roles, Brandon joined the Board of Directors of ASX listed MGM Wireless Limited, an Australian technology company that designs and develops breakthrough wearable technology and has taken on the role of Executive Director of the recently established Australian Design Council.


Brandon was made a Design Ambassador to Japan, an honorary international design advocacy role organised by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion.





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