Designed in Melbourne - Duperite egg cups

Duperite is a product brand name from Melbourne plastics pioneering company Moulded Products Pty Ltd. Moulded Products also had the brand name Nylex and eventually Moulded Products changed it's name to Nylex. The design of these egg cups allows for ease of moulding which has always been an Australian design characteristic given our low population.

Duperite egg cups designed in Melbourne in the 1940s.

Duperite egg cups added to my collection of Australian designed products.

Designed in Melbourne - Kambrook Axis Eco Kettle

The Kambrook Axis 360 Eco Kettle was designed in Melbourne Australia in 1993-94.

The Kambrook Axis 360 Eco Kettle was designed in Melbourne Australia.

Kambrook - Powerboard advertising

Tina Arena and the Young Talent team promote Kambrook products during Young Talent Time in the early 1980s. Tina Arena is shown holding the PB1 power board designed by Robert Pataki Design for Kambrook.

Tina Arena advertising the Australian designed Kambrook power board in the early 1980s.

Designed in Melbourne.

The PB2 Powerboard designed by Robert Pataki Design featured in the 2010 exhibition '175 Years of Design in Victoria' curated by Ian Wong.

Robert Pataki Design - Melbourne Australia

Stuart Devlin - Australian decimal coins

Fifty years ago in 1964 Stuart Devlin was selected to design Australia's new decimal coins. This work was a significant achievement for Stuart at the time and the nation celebrated his design talent during the extensive public advertising campaign as we went decimal in 1966.

Designed in Melbourne - Australian 20 cent coin with iconic platypus design by Stuart Devlin.

I have interviewed Stuart for my research and viewed his original sketches at the Australian Mint Museum in Canberra. See previous post here. 

BlackBOX - Design & Innovation in Melbourne

BlackBOX - Design & Innovation in Melbourne

Kambrook Powerboard - World's first electrical power board.

The common electrical power board was first manufactured by Melbourne company Kambrook in the 1970s. I remember selling this product from my our family business Wong's World in Shepparton in 1979. In 1987 while living in London I recall looking for a powerboard but realised only double adaptors existed in Europe at the time.

Frank Bannigan founded Kambrook and the electrical engineer who invented the power board in 1972 was Peter Talbot. 

In 1991 while at RMIT I ran a second year industrial design studio with Peter Talbot and Kambrook.  

Designed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Kambrook power board  - the world's first power board.

Kambrook power board  - the world's first power board.

Decor - Cheese tray and cover

This cheese tray and cover is a very early Decor product by Brian Davis Plastics from Melbourne Australia.

Decor cheese tray and cover