I was hugely disappointed when Monocle decided not to publish this piece on graphic designer Kevin Finn.
Kevin quit his role as Creative Director at Saatchi Design in Sydney a few years ago to set up his own studio in Kununurra, Western Australia, which is not the most obvious place to set up a design studio. For two years, this red-headed Irish Australian lived in such sweltering, isolated and unusual conditions, working with an eclectic mix of clients, that Monocle singled him out as one of 5 designers to watch globally (but later decided not to run the piece after all). Here's how the story began:
“In the East Kimberley, Western Australia, Irish-born designer Kevin Finn established his design studio in perhaps one of the world’s most isolated towns, Kununurra, where the temperature can reach 40 degrees in the wet season.
With extremely limited access to photographers and materials, Finn Creative is in the unique position of bringing high-caliber design to indigenous organisations, rejecting clichéd imagery of boomerangs and dot paintings for more thoughtful, relevant symbolism…”
Although Monocle decided not to run this profile after all, I did write a long piece on Kevin for CREATIVE instead.
Finn relocated his studio, Finn Creative, to Brisbane this year. He also publishes an excellent design journal that explores design's relevance to everything from politics to popular culture, Open Manifesto.
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