

Nicholas Perillo
Nicholas Perillo is an artist and designer from Melbourne, Australia where he received numerous accolades for his early works, including two Design Institute of Australia, Graduate of the Year Awards in 2018. Inspired by a more speculative and creative approach, Perillo departed from traditional product design early in his career to explore and experiment with bigger ideas that didn’t necessarily have any immediate utility. Perillo’s determination and creative and technical ability eventually culminated in the creation of the original prototype for MORPH


Photography: Fariz Hakim
Bio
2021 – present
Migration of Matter – Co-Founder
2018 – present
Augmentl Studio Founder
2018 – 2020
Ramus Ilumination
2017 – 2018
Tek Industries
2015 – 2017
Folium 3D
2017
BA Industrial Design (Honours)
Awards
2017
Graduate of The Year Award for Industrial Design, Victoria and Tasmania
2017
Graduate of The Year Award Overall Winner, Victoria and Tasmania
2017
Gerard Herbst Award for Outstanding Contribution to Learning Culture at RMIT
2017
Ranked No#10 in Yanko Designs ‘Best A’Design Awards Over the Years’
2016
A’ Design Bronze Award for Zenyth Longboard
2016
Spark Design Award, Silver
2015
Zenyth Longboard Project featured on Behance Industrial Design Served
2012
Featured in ARTEXPRESS exhibition
2012
Nominated for DesignTech exhibition
2012
University of Wollongong year 12 Design & Technology Prize
2012
National Gallery of Australia’s National Summer Art Scholarship
2012
Fuji Xerox Prize for Design & Technology, CGS
2012
Ben Jackson Prize for Promotion of the Arts, CGS
2012
Sir Mark Oliphant Award for outstanding potential in art and design, CGS
2011
Tate Trewin Memorial Prize for Visual Arts, CGS
“I think tools should be as functionally beautiful as the objects they create”
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