Ted has had a long and distinguished career in design and design education, including a sixty year involvement with the DIA and its forerunners. In 1956 Ted was appointed the first Secretary of the Society of Designers for Industry (Ron Rosenfeldt was the then President), which was the forerunner of the Industrial Design Institute of Australia, later to become the Design Institute of Australia.

From 1954 to 1969 Ted was a director and part owner of Stuart Furniture, South Yarra. From 1969 to 1972 he was Head of the Department of Art & Design, Prahran College of Advanced Education, and from 1973 to 1974 he was State Director, Victoria, of the Industrial Design Council of Australia. In 1974 to 1979 he was Principal Lecturer, Caulfield Institute of Technology, and during this period he was seconded to the Department of Education, Canberra, as Acting Director, Canberra School of Art (1976-1977).

Ted retired in 1984 as Head of the Department of Graphic Design, Chisholm Institute of Technology (now Monash University) and has gone on to contribute to advisory boards and councils in the field of design education in Victoria. Ted is a Fellow of the DIA.