New York-based Australian designer Visnja Brdar discusses her design philosophy and 37 year career, spanning fashion, architecture, product design, real estate and beauty.
Brdar will be in conversation with Jonathan Green, presenter of ABC Radio National’s Blueprint for Living.
This program takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Visnja Brdar: Design Exalted, guest curated by Hannah Mathews for MUMA, 11 April – 15 June 2024.
Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 40-year career as a journalist, beginning with a cadetship at The Canberra Times and taking in various Australian dailies: the Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun, the Sunday Herald, The Sunday Age and 15 years at The Age. Jonathan left The Age in 2006 to edit Crikey. After three years there he moved to the ABC as founding editor of ABC Online’s The Drum. He is the author of Around Australia In 80 Days (2004) and The Year My Politics Broke (2013). He was editor of literary quarterly Meanjin between 2015 and 2022. He presents Blueprint for Living on ABC Radio National, tends his vegetables and writes the odd column and essay.
Australian born Visnja Brdar launched her own Creative Studio in Melbourne, at the age of twenty-two, to give vision to her creations. Australia’s top brands would soon become her clients, including The Sydney Opera House and Marc Newson. Her ambition led her to New York, to work with Fabien Baron as an Art Director for Michael Kors, Jil Sander, Giorgio Armani and Nars Cosmetics among others. She re-established her namesake creative agency BRDAR in New York in 2003. BRDAR’s clientele are in the fields of lifestyle, fashion, beauty, art, architecture and real estate, from Estée Lauder to Bumble & Bumble and New York developer Zeckendorf. BRDAR articulates and creates highly sophisticated communications across various platforms—including brand work, strategy, collateral, digital and creative direction. Modernity, elegance and exactitude permeates the work. BRDAR’s incisive and meticulous approach to problem solving is applied with infectious passion.