Gregory Orr

Industrial Design

Hi! My name is Greg and I am an Industrial Designer who is passionate about designing innovative products for people that balances function and form. As a designer, I see it as my role to create beautiful products that complement functionality and enhance the user experience. Designers have a responsibility to make products attractive to the user and entice them to love interacting with it, and that is something I strive to accomplish.

I believe a good designer has a high level of empathy and that is something I am continuously trying to practice as a designer. By empathising with the user I am designing for and understanding more of their different perspectives and challenges, then I have a better understanding of the user’s needs and desires and how to best design to benefit them. User-centred design is a key focus for me, and I love seeing people excited to use the things I have designed.

Design also needs to consider detail and detail is something I have a keen eye for. A self-proclaimed perfectionist for the things I am passionate about, I think details make a huge difference in the perception and effectiveness of products. Details are important for enhancing the user experience and quality of a product. How parts are manufactured to fit together and be taken apart, how products look and feel and how they are used and treated in their environment, are why details matter, which is something I love to give thought to in my designs.

Thankyou for reading and learning a bit more about me and I hope you will get the opportunity one day to experience and love the things I design.

GO-Ramp Boarding Ramp for disabled passengers on PTV trains

ABOUT SPACE Table Lamp

ANETINA Bathroom Water Tap

ILLUMIBLOCK Garden Solar Light

WEDGE CHAIR Plywood Lounge Chair

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.