Trent Jansen

Trent Jansen (1981) grew up in Kiama, a small town on the South East Coast of Australia. Jansen graduated from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney in 2004 with a Bachelor of Design, after a period of study at the Industrial Design School of the University of Alberta in Canada.

In late 2004 Trent Jansen opened his own studio in Sydney, Australia. Jansen’s practice is for the most part focused on creating honest and poetic sustainable design, developing pieces that aim to maintain a lasting relationship with their user. This work becomes a life long companion instead of a disposable thing, fostering meaningful relationships through the honesty and personality that this work possesses.

“Superimposing contemporary issues upon archetypal forms…Trent Jansen creates objects that are darkly humorous, historically and socially sharp…Mixing wit, critique and sophistication, Jansen’s objects seem to resist the fate that has befallen the artefacts to which they owe their present forms.”

Ying-Lan Dann - Monument Design Atlas.
Monument, Issue 74, 2006.

Trent Jansen’s awards include: the Space+Edra Design Residency in 2010, the Bombay Sapphire ‘Design Discovery’ Award in 2008, the Spiral ‘Rendez-vous’ Japanese Manufacturing Residency in 2006, the Australia Council for the Arts ‘New Work’ Award in 2005 and the Object ‘New Design’ National Graduate Award in 2004.

Trent Jansen’s work has been featured in such design publications as: I.D. - ‘The International Design Magazine - New + Notable 2008’, &Fork - ‘100 of the World’s Most Interesting Product Designers’ - Phaidon Press Limited, 2007 and Open Doors - ‘Fresh Thinking in Australian Architecture and Interiors’ - Ripe Off The Press, 2007.

Trent Jansen’s work is in production with ISM Objects (www.ismobjects.com.au) and The Broached Commissions (www.broachedcommissions.com) in Australia, Sekimoto (www.sekimoto.co.jp) in Japan and Moooi (www.moooi.com) in The Netherlands.