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View Larger Image and Additional Photos of Mac NordmanAbout Mac Nordman : Mac Nordman is a designer and practical problem-solver. Mac has a reputation in the film, theatre, exhibition and custom furniture fields as being a bit of a master craftsman with wood in particular.
Mac has worked on 12 major film and tv series productions in Australia in various roles such as settbuilder props/ model maker and furniture maker, most stand out movie job was to craft the Viking furniture for the Viking ship in “Thor love and thunder”.
His creative thinking finds design solutions in a range of materials, forms and styles. Mac admires good design in any context and aspires to promoting best design practices using sustainably sourced materials.
Mac has a very Scandinavian style that leans heavily into retro futurism, finnish birch plywood and recycled items is often to be found in his creations.
Mac is intending to grow “Nordman Design” to a well known prestige furniture and lights design brand and hopes to find the right people to collaborate with that can make it all happen.
I would like to be extensively involved in Industrial Design and Furniture Design if I can find my place in it.
Since graduation, I have aimed to set myself up as a designer entity and run a small sustainable designer company. This is not an easy task in a country like Australia, whose population is relatively small.
I have taken many small steps to set up my Workshop and Studio space. From that base I try to generate designs that are meaningful in the contemporary world and which allow me to enter the furniture design field in a commercial way.
I do believe I live like a designer on a daily basis, since I have my self-created space from which I work and I'm still taking steps to be be more able and ready to become commercial in output when the opportunity presents.
ORGANIZATION:
Nordman Design
NON-DESIGN OCCUPATION:
Wood model maker Industrial production, manufacture, metal
EDUCATION:
1991-1994 College, Natural science, art for elective. Sweden.
1995-1996 Military service, Green berets/ Artic Rangers.Sweden.
1996-1998 Apprentischip in sett design and fabrication. Sweden.
1998 1week blacksmithing course.
1998-1999 Art school industrial design prep, Sweden, Ålsta.
2000-2005, Industrial Designer, B.Ind.Design, Newcastle University, New South Wales, Australia.
2001-2005, Extra-curricular undergraduate courses, Sculpture, Science-fiction movie design, Furniture design, Technical illustration and Graphic design.
2006-2008, Paid apprenticeship with Swedish furniture maker, Hjalle Torell - HT Products, Leichhardt, Sydney.
EXPERIENCE:
2005, junior model-maker, 'Superman Returns', Fox Studios, Sydney, Australia.
2005 Architectural model maker, Sydney modeltec 3D.
2007 modelmaker in stop motion animation. "$9.99"
2008 modelmaker/ settbuilder for the Australian museum.
2009-12 settbuilder, propsmaker, foreman at anythingtheming.
2012, model-maker, 'Wolverine', Fox Studios, Sydney, Australia
2012-2022, set-builder and props maker, Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir Theatre, multiple productions
2013, set-builder and props-maker, 'The Water Diviner', Fox Studios Sydney, Australia
2016, set- builder and props-maker, 'Alien Covenant', Fox Studios, Sydney, Australia
2017, set-builder and props maker, "Pacific Rim'Uprising",Fox Studios, Sydney, Australia
2019, set-builder and props-maker, 'Banished' TV series, sett in 1776 Sydney, Australia
2020, furniture-maker and props maker, 'Shang Chi' Disney productions, Sydney, Australia
"Legend of the Ten Rings" Fox Studios, Sydney, Australia
2021, Furniture and props maker, 'Thor love and Thunder' Fox Studios, Sydney, Australia. Viking ship furniture making.
2022, Sculptor, 'The lost Flowers of Alice hart', Disney studious. Sydney, Australia
2023, props-designer and maker, 1850s historical, 'The Artful Dodger', Sydney, Australia, medical and historical props.
2023, furniture maker/ props on *action movie*
PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
Im in the early plans for my first solo exhibition in 2023/ 2024
MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
2004, 'BraunPrize', online, 'Pedal car'
2018, 2020, 'Workshopped' exhibition, University of New South Wales, Art and Design and Australian Design Centre, Sydney, Australia, Max Leishman, Jeannie Mulligan, Isaac Francis, Dan Layden, Roberto Vessella, Tom Hewitt.
2020 Indesign competition by Schiavello, Online, Rocket chair.
2023 Australias next top designer, Melbourne Australia.
EVENTS:
2018, 'Launch Pad', InDesignLive, designer/exhibitor, 'Sunrise' chair, 'Maple' light,
2020 'Launch Pad', InDesignLive designer/exhibitor, 'Rocket' Chair, /Schiavello's Sydney, showroom, Sydney, Australia
2023 Australias next top designer, Melbourn design expo. Polygone chair and Manta light.
AWARDS:
The 2023 A design price digital entry for Manta light. Industrial design
The 2023 A design runner up for digital entry for Polygon chair.
PRESS APPEARANCES:
2004 'Pedal car', online
2018, 'Sunrise' chair, 'Maple' light, online
2018, 'Rocket' chair, Australian Design Centre, online article, https://australiandesigncentre.com/past-exhibition
s-and-events/work,
2021, 'Rocket' chair, 'Maple' light, 'Hela 5 degrees' light, Habitus Living; online featured article, https://www.habitusliving.com/design-hunters/mac-n
ordman-designer, 13 April, 2022.
2023 Australias next top Designer, online.
ACCOLADES:
2023 Australias next top designer finalist.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Swedish, Native speaker
English, Near native
Norwegian, Advanced
German, beginner
COMPUTER LITERACY:
Microsoft Office, Intermediate;
Adobe Creative Suite, Intermediate
I did a 30sec animation in cinema 4D
COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS::
1996-97 sett design and construction
2000,English language speaking for professionals, Newcastle
2006 - 2008, Swedish Furniture-maker Hjalle Torell, Workshop apprenticeship, HT products, Leichhardt,
Sydney
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:
2023 IDC
2023 IAD
2023 ICCI
2023 AIBA
2023 ISPM
2023 IBSP
COLLECTIONS:
If a museum would like to display a “Manta light” im happy to supply a copy for sure..
(Or other designs )
HOBBIES:
Furniture Design, Aircraft model-making, Model-making, Tiny house research and design, Recreational carpentry, Movie props construction, Reading
CLIENTELE:
2012-2023, Shop-fitting design, maker/installer, multiple clients; Louis Vuitton, Lancome, Heineman, Sydney Kingsford-Smith Airport, International Terminal, Sydney. Pacho Rabanne. Etc
WEB SITE:
www.nordmandesign.com.au
PORTFOLIO URL:
www.nordmandesign.com.au
RSS URL:
Instagram: nordman_design_
REGISTRATION DATE:
2022-08-27 02:05:27
COUNTRY/REGION:
Australia
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional
Runner-Up status designs by Mac Nordman
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