Melbournian design duo tin&ed (separately, Tin Nguyen and Edward Cutting) have made their mark through illustration, collage, photography, sculpture, installation, motion, web design and art direction funnelled into all manner of wares, and are still on a high from their recent SOYA win. We caught up with them ahead of their appearance at Semi-Permanent this week. Concrete Playground: What has been your favourite project to work on so far? Ed: Our exhibition at the start of last year was our first solo show — I suppose, there's two of us — and that was really fun. I mean it was a bit stressful, but we turned it into a really fun project. Tin: And we got to work with our friends. We involved like 12 of our friends in it — and I guess even with commercial projects as much as we can we like to involve other creative people. Ed: Probably another one with a similar thing about involving our friends was the Melbourne International Design Festival, which was in 2008. That was a super, super quick job. I mean, the job took a little while, but coming up with the identity for it had to be done fairly quickly. So we basically set up a project for our friends and we worked with them and it turned out really well. (more…)