|
Travels From:
Sydney
Fee Range: B
|
|
Sally Dominguez is a judge on ABC TV's The New Inventors and a multi-award-winning product designer. Sally is one of the few female Australian inventors who have seen multiple products through from conception to production and market - she knows and articulates the "learning cliff" for commercializing inventions that are ahead of the curve. Sally graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Sydney and designed and built over 18 passive solar houses before designing her award-winning Nest highchair in 2003. Her accomplishments now include five major international product design awards and five years of professional judging, including ABC TV's The New Inventors, The Australian Design Awards, Wheels Car of the Year Awards and the San Francisco-based Spark Awards.
Sally's Nest highchair, winner of an Australian DesignMark in 2003, is held in the Powerhouse Museum's Permanent Collection and her Rainwater HOG tank was named one of the USA's Top 10 Green Building Products in 2008. In addition to judging international design awards Sally has a particular interest in sustainable vehicle design and reviews cars for Fairfax Media as well as judging Car of the Year for Wheels magazine and Fairfax Media.
Paralleling her design work Sally lectures on Sustainable Design for the NSW Board of Studies and various private schools where her infectious enthusiasm for design and innovation is matched by her working knowledge of what it takes to get an idea off the drawing board. While her own design work is referenced in various design books Sally covers general design innovation for publications including Qantas magazine, Monument and Curve.
Sally's ten years practicing architecture plus her significant accomplishments in design places her squarely at the forefront of sustainable invention and 'green' materials and building design innovation. Between the learning cliff of innovative product development, daily life in her adopted, design-rich city of San Francisco, the fly on the wall accounts covering several years of expert car and design judging and her writing and teaching centred on sustainable product innovations Sally has a wide scope of experience to draw on in the design, innovation, materials science, automotive and entertainment fields. Sally has a quick wit and sense of the absurd and works equally well scripted or ad lib. She has run student workshops on design and creativity, overseen engineers demonstrating energy concepts via interpretive dance, judged DesignTech presentations and MC'd events ranging from school auctions to State Innovation galas, exhibition openings and black tie awards nights Australia-wide.
As an inventor, educator and adjudicator Sally passionately believes in the global need for smarter, multi-purpose, sustainable building products, and she continues to design and invent simple, effective solutions to water, energy and building concerns.
Sally lives in San Francisco, works in Sydney and is a "Friends of Australia" ambassador for Tourism Australia. Her family are experimenting with local vegan mid-week meals to offset her travel emissions.
"Sally was received extremely highly. Her knowledge of our sector was highly regarded too."
Caroline Morrissey - QLD Resources Council
"Excellent. Professional. Talented. Just the right touch." WA Sustainable Energy Association
|
