Andrew Barnum Andrew Barnum is a Sydney-based designer, design educator and artist (singer-songwriter, poet and painter) who holds an Associate Diploma Arts/Graphic Arts from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts (Research) from the facuty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney(UTS). He has been a design educator since 1999, when he started lecturing for both Billy Blue and UTS Viscom.
Since 2006, he has been Head of College at the Billy Blue College of Design, responsible for Billy Blue's shift to delivering Bachelor of Applied Design degrees in the higher education sector.
With his wife Lissa, he is a partner of The Barnum Group, which has been communications designer for coporations (Macquarie Bank, Ord Minnett, HongKong Bank, Sydney Futures Exchange), community (Clean up the world, Clean up Australia) and the arts (Sydney Dance Company, Bloomers, Art Bank) in Sydney since 1981, when they relocated from Los Angeles.
The Barnum Group has won AGDA awards and Hollywood Reporter Foreign Press awards, and has been highly commended by the Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards for the book Girlosophy. The Barnums had video-music hits as electropop duo Vitabeats in the 1980s, and since then Andrew has produced four original solo albums, the most recent being the double CD/book Feed the Clouds - The Interactive Songbook, featuring the work of 25 artists and illustrators. Read More Read Less