The Designers: Studio Round’s Madison Tierney on the importance of culture, curiosity and collaboration

The Designers delves deep into the world’s leading design studios through a series of in-depth conversations with the individuals that make them tick. We spoke to Madison Tierney, a junior designer at Studio Round in Melbourne, for number six in the series. EM: Can you tell us about your background, and how that led you to Studio Round? MT: I was raised in Melbourne and spent many of my primary and high school days in the inner city. My parents had a small photographic studio in North Melbourne, where I’d often go after school. I loved creating things out of scrap materials – papers lying around in the studio, while flipping through art books and helping with photoshoots here and there. Maybe I got it from them, but I’ve always been creative – I was never not making or crafting something.