Bryon Fitzpatrick

Bryon Fitzpatrick was a lecturer/tutor in Industrial Design and Rapid Visualisation at QIT and QUT on a number of occasions. He was inducted into the DIA Design Hall of Fame for his considerable contribution to design in Australia and internationally. www.design.org.au/about-us/design-hall-of-fame   Bryon passed away in Brisbane in 2015.

Bryon completed his Industrial Design studies at Queensland Technical College in Brisbane, on the Gardens Point site in 1955. He was internationally renowned as an educator and designer whose impressive list of accolades during many decades as a practicing designer included European awards for:  Movie Camera, Germany and Yugoslavia (1964); Glassware, Belgium (1966); and Portable Radio (for Bang & Olufsen), Denmark (1966) in addition to several Australian Design Awards. His considerable talent for drawing and rendering earned him the title ’the drawing machine’ from his peers and his students in George Street. Bryon’s award winning work notably also included cars, buses, bicycles, and motorcycles with the BSA Three and Triumph Trident models of particular note. Other roles held in the automobile industry included: Ford Motor Company in both England and Germany; and British Motor Corporation in Sydney.

His career in design education included six years as Chair Industrial Design/Transportation Design at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit where the department was recognised as the world’s leading automotive design program; Art Center College of Design California and Art Center College of Design Switzerland as lecturer for nine years collectively; Rhode Island School of Design; Canberra CAE, Adelaide School of Design and multiple sessions at QIT and QUT Industrial Design between the early 1980’s and 2000’s. #people#