• BIOGRAPHY
    Luke Andrew Batten is an award winning Australian freelance designer who has provided creative direction and services in the fields of product design, graphic design, a    nd illustration since 2006. Working across a range of mediums over several disciplines provides him with a fresh yet balanced insight and helped to refine his development processes.

    Luke has worked in-house for several prominent Australian industrial design consultancies since his 2007 graduation, worked as a design and sketching tutor at the University of Canberra and has freelanced for a range of design related companies. This work has been recognised through several major awards including 3rd Place, in the 2007 Design Institute of Australia, Industrial Design Graduate of the Year Awards and the 2011, Australian National University, Helmut Lueckenhausen Prize for Furniture.

     Much of Luke’s recent product design explores user-product interfaces, user experience and material properties within a wooden furniture context. This experience imperative looks to reassess the physical, intellectual, emotional and psychological connections made between the user and product. Whilst, the material imperative attempts to understand, exploit and control innate material properties and structures.

    Such a design ethic seeks to create considered, meaningful and unique products.

    EDUCATION
    Master of Furniture Design 2011, Australian National University, Australia. (Mentored by Rodney Hayward)
    Bachelor of Industrial Design 2007, University of Canberra, Australia.
     
    DESIGN AWARDS & RECOGNITION
    2011, Workshopped Exhibition, Sydney, Australia (Cartesian Stool)
    2011, Shirt of the Day, Retro TV Colour Test Man,  www.designbyhumans.com
    2010, Australian National University, Helmut Lueckenhausen Prize.
    2010, Australian National University, Graduate Materials Award.
    2010, Designer of the Week, www.monkeedesign.com
    2009, Shirt of the Day, Interstella Astronaut, www.designbyhumans.com
    2007, 3rd Place, Industrial Design Graduate of the Year Awards. DIA.
    2006, Industrial Design Merit Award, DIA, ACT Chapter.
    2006, People’s Choice Award, 24 Hour Design Competition.

    PREVIOUS IN-HOUSE EMPLOYERS
    Tiller Design – Sydney, Australia (Product Designer)
    D3 Design – Sydney, Australia (Product Designer)
    University of Canberra - Canberra, Australia (Design & Sketching Tutor)

    All work including designs, images, sketches, photographs, and renderings copyright & property of Luke Andrew Batten, 2011 unless otherwise stated.
Luke Batten Design Studio specialises in product and graphic design services.

Based in Canberra, Australia.