JUDGES
Submissions for the BIA 2010 will be assessed by a panel of industry leaders, who represent all areas of design, production and marketing.
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Paul Hecker (Hecker Phelan & Guthrie)
Paul Hecker is one of the founding Directors of the preeminent design firm Hecker Phelan & Guthrie. This boutique firm is responsible for some of Australia’s leading hospitality, residential & retail projects.
Paul has over 20 years experience in the industry and has built a highly regarded profile as a leading interior designer. Some of HP&G’s recognised projects include Ivy & The Establishment in Sydney, and Comme, Longrain & The Prince in Melbourne, just to name a few.
Paul is passionate about materiality, greenery and how people interact with the interior.
David Clark (Vogue Living)
Vogue Living Editor-in-Chief, David Clark, has worked in the interior design industry for more than 25 years. After graduating with a Commerce degree from the University of Queensland (UQ), Clark pursued a more creative path in design. In Sydney, and then later in London, he worked in the fabrics industry selling interior furnishing fabrics for leading textiles houses. After a decade, he returned to his first love, architecture, graduating with a degree in Design Studies (Architecture) from UQ. While working with an architecture firm in Brisbane, and teaching design at UQ, he began to work as Brisbane Editor for Belle. Seduced by publishing, Clark returned to Sydney as Design Editor and subsequently Deputy Editor for Belle. He then freelanced for several years as an architecture and design writer for Australian and international publications, and as a consultant for leading Australian design retailers.
Clark returned to his publishing career at the helm of Vogue Living Australia, which he has edited for the past six and a half years. As Editor of Vogue Living he has established himself as an authoritative voice and an expert in his field.
Shaynna Blaze (Blank Canvas Interiors)
Interior Designer, Artist and Renovation Expert Shaynna Blaze is the co-host and Interior Design expert on The LifeStyle Channel program Selling Houses Australia – the Australian version of the highly successful “British Selling Houses”.
Starting as an interior designer over 20 years ago, she traveled the country designing retail showrooms. Now armed with vast life experience, passion for design and solving design issues, Shaynna transforms commercial, private and retail premises from the most modest of budgets to multi-million dollar projects, in her design studio Blank Canvas Interiors.
Belinda Geels (Reece)
After successfully completing a double degree in Marketing/Management, Belinda Geels was eager to pursue a career with an industry leader where she could explore her love for consumer behaviour in retail marketing. After securing a graduate position with Reece, Belinda worked her way from the grass roots up, developing skills in marketing and gaining extensive product knowledge in toilets, basins, tapware and all things bathroom. In 2007 Belinda won the HAV large store category Young Retailer of the Year and after 4 years with Reece is now Bathroom Marketing Manager.
Belinda is passionate about innovation in bathroom product development, particularly when a product is design centric without compromising functionality. She is excited to work for an organisation that embraces Australian innovation and promotes the importance of beautiful bathroom design.
