Our Collaborations

Collaborations are the key to our innovation. Corban & Blair is a proud collaborative team, who see the value in working not just together as a company, but with many collaborators to create new, innovative products. Corban & Blair have collaborated with creatives over the past 33 years. We first commissioned hand painted paper covers for our photo albums and journals. Our latest initiative is our Window Gallery, where we exhibit the work of local artists and makers, giving them exposure to commuters passing by.

Thomas Bagaay Avery

Thomas ‘Bagaay’ Avery is a descendant of the Gamilaroi tribe in northern NSW. His tribal totem is the blue tongue lizard. Thomas’s ancestors were born at Bohena Creek Aboriginal Reserve, Narrabri. Thomas is a painter, designer and filmmaker using his unique insights to communicate his culture.

Lucy Simpson Gaawaa Miyay Design

Lucy Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay woman (northwest New South Wales), founder of design studio Gaawaa Miyay (2009), is a process led graphic designer / textile artist and maker specialising in visual narrative, installation art, textile and conceptual design. Corban & Blair have worked collaboratively with Lucy Simpson over the past 5 years. Together we have created meaningful products including framed prints, travel accessories and journals. As Lucy’s practice evolves so does ours, responding to our experiences and story.

Hunt Leather

Founded in 1975, Hunt Leather is a family business renowned for superb leathergoods, business cases and accessories, handmade in Australia, Italy, Spain and Colombia.  Specialising in vegetable-tanned leathers, sustainably sourced and ethically produced for over 45 years. Hunt have stores in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Balmain.

Euraba

Euraba Artists and Papermakers are a group of Northern NSW indigenous artists situated in the border town of Boggabilla specialising in handmade paper art. Working with and producing their own 100% cotton paper, they have adopted traditional European papermaking methods and made them their own with their contemporary indigenous sensibilities.

Studio A

Studio A is a supported studio of successful and renowned visual artists based in Sydney. The studio caters for artists living with intellectual disability. The enterprise provides appropriate education, professional development pathways and opportunities to this talented group of artists so that they can achieve their artistic and economic aspirations.

studioa.org.au

Elliot Mason

Elliot Mason is a New Zealand artist who calls his artwork a stylized representation of the natural world. He uses rhythmic, organic and geometric forms that are broken down into simple motifs. These can be turned into patterns, replicated and then contoured over blended gradients that represent land, waves, clouds and living beings. He creates patterns that represent the environment they portray, stretched and repeated like fractals multiplying into the distance to create perspective and depth.

Patrick Lindsay

These products are made in collaboration with author Patrick Lindsay. The packaging includes Australian made leather journal, “Be Resilient and Thrive” book by Patrick Lindsay and instruction on how to use the journal using the quotes from the book.

Patrick Lindsay is one of Australia’s leading non-fiction authors. He spent more than 25 years as a journalist and TV presenter before he began writing full-time in 2001. Since then he has written 18 best- selling books.

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