Tristan is the founder and Director of award-winning strategic design practice Relative Creative. In this role he leads the creative direction and visual design resolve of the practice. He is a designer, researcher and strategist of Gamilaroi and Australian-European descent. Tristan’s practice sees him working across traditional and radical design disciplines including strategic foresight and futures thinking, decolonial thinking and sustainable transitions. This work cuts across commercial, non-commercial and government settings. In recent years his knowledge and skills have seen him work as a future-focussed strategic engagement specialist for a number of Pacific Islands.
Tristan has served on a number of boards, publishes widely in critical design discourse and delivers keynotes, lectures, and resources, centred on contributing to the advancement of thinking, talking and mobilising sustainable, plural futures.
He has a Bachelor of Design majoring in Product Design, a Masters of Design Futures with Honours and a PhD in Design. Tristan has also been a convenor and lecturer in the design department at QCA, Griffith University, notably co-designing the Design Futures program and courses from 2012-2019. He is Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney in the Design School and Honorary Principal Research Fellow at RMIT, Melbourne. He is a Visiting Academic Fellow and Bond University.
Bec is Director of award-winning strategic design practice Relative Creative. Her expertise ranges across a wide range of design-disciplines including participatory programs and projects, future-focussed policy development and policy analysis, design-led facilitation, visual communication design, experience design and research. Growing up across three different continents, Bec recognises the privileges afforded to her by Australian and British ancestry. The continued focus of Bec’s work is the role design practice can play in urgently needed just transitions.
Bec has extensive experience at working across all levels of government as well as with a wide range of businesses and organisations and on projects of varying size and complexity. Bec has experience working in numerous cultural contexts and communities, in Australia and around the world.
Bec maintains an active research focus to remain informed and has published papers, presented at events and organised large multi-day workshops locally and internationally. She is a lecturer at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University and has, at varying times since 2012 convened, lectured and tutored into the design program. Bec holds a B.Design and M.Design Honours (first class).