Open to select freelance and in-house roles from August.

Tom Kennedy

Motion, editing, and technical illustration — Melbourne.

I’m a senior creative based in Melbourne, working across motion, video, and technical illustration. My background spans government, education, news, and brand and I've been lucky enough for a lot of that time to do work that has important human impact. I take on a small number of projects each year and prefer to work directly with the people commissioning the work.

When the right tool doesn't exist, make it

Every moment of downtime can be a chance to learn - to push beyond your normal modes of doing. I'm also always looking for opportunities to make my practice more sustainable, efficient, and deliver better results quicker for my clients. Lately I've been applying both of those principles together by developing my own tools that help streamline my work and recapture time that can be better spend making.

Extending an existing technical-illustration series

There are few things as gratifying as having a research client fly through the grant application stages, earning that recognition for it’s transformative potential. Always happy to come back in and expand upon a paper’s ability to express that in more detail, and for new audiences.

Reading: Tess McCabe again, as the new site comes together

Reading while doing grounds that knowledge in your own context, and of course helps reencode it through live application. It’s a gift to have the excuse to read McCabe again, and to be reminded in her voice that the human element of design business is always the beating heart, as I wrangle site margins into shape.