It is with great sadness we share the news that Good Design Australias inaugural Patron, Michael Bryce sadly passed away on 16 January 2021. Their style? He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2005 and inducted into the DIA Design Hall of Fame. Everybody understands that because its one of the professions. After training as a cadet in the Air Training Corp all through high school, Bryce joined the University Squadron. Michael died at home with them on January 15 their five children, Jack, Revy, Rupert, Chloe, Tom; and their 12 grandchildren. In 1964 he married the love of his life, Quentin Strachan, from Ilfracombe in Central West Queensland. His schooling was at Gordonvale State School in north Queensland, and Brisbane State High School. Step inside the factory to see how local flavours inform the design. In 1977 he was elected the inaugural Queensland President of the then Industrial Design Institute of Australiaand National President in 1979. Get the latest design news direct to your inbox! It is all careful consideration and poignant touches, while still being family-fit. The Prince Philip Prize for design attracted TV coverage with His Royal Highness famous response to an award for the GE plastic kettle, but can you boil an egg in it?. He also received honorary doctorates from the universities of Queensland and Canberra and, in 2020, the prestigious Australia Design Prize. He was my life model. An aunt and uncle of his fathers were also artists. In 1966, the newly married architect and his barrister wife, Quentin, took the obligatory trip overseas. We speak to the French office every day. He was awarded Australia's highest design accolade, the Australian Design Prize, in September 2020. Unless you are among the rare, self-sustaining few who happen to live totally off the grid, you will be familiar with the dull dread associated with the arrival of your power bill. "'.>, , ]. Bryce is perhaps best known for his accomplishments as Principal Design Adviser to the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He didnt fly, but when he graduated from university and began working for architects in Brisbane, he continued in the Air Force Reserve and became, from 1964 to 1966, the honorary aide-de-camp to the Queensland Governor. From the pages of Indesign #16 (c.2004), this reissued Luminary profile honours the life and legacy of the late Australian architect/designer, Michael Bryce. I suppose most people would recognise my Sydney 2000 Olympics bid logo and role as Design Advisor for the Games. She was tanned and walking through a hotel foyer. Exceptionally, Bryce recognized that architecture and all forms of design are an important and worthy intellectual and aesthetic pursuit. Image: It has created corporate identities for many Australian institutions including the National Trust, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Australian War Memorial, the Commonwealth Games, the Wallabies Rugby team, the International Cricket Council, the Queensland Government and the Sydney Royal Easter Show although Michael Bryce is probably best known for creating the Sydney 2000 Olympics bid logo and for his role as principal Design Advisor for the Games. He provoked endless comment: shopping on Saturday mornings with the children; giving them lessons in ironing and packing lunches; cooking dinner, doing school rosters. Vale Michael Bryce | 1938-2021 Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Posted By: Charlotte Barstow. Tell us where we should send the Latest news. He retired from Minale Bryce in September 2008, following the appointment of his wife, Dame Quentin, as the first female and 25th Governor-General of Australia. courtesy Jack Bryce. They invite me, when theres an event, to sit in the front row and I get to say a few words sometimes. As he sits at ease in one of the companys boardrooms, striped shirt crisp, tie impeccable, he is clearly not a designer out of the mould. He was elected inaugural Queensland President, National President and a Life Fellow. At one stage we had five children under seven. (Bryce now unequivocally claims his children as his proudest achievement and is pleased that two of them work with him at Minale Bryce.) Mark Landini is not a man to mince his words. Its OK now, but weve been in re-build mode for a while, says Bryce, although numbers are significantly reduced from earlier times. I was probably the only person, at that time, who could have done that. He says he works because he loves the whole business of design. Prince William, Quentin Bryce and Michael in Sydney in 2010. Credit: Getty. Sydney Morning Herald, 2 February 2021, p.37.>], [
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