Your name: Leo Yip
What you do: Co-owner of Heluva Design Studios with business partner Steve Barry & Co-owner of Ellaspede Motorcycles and Apparel with business partner Steve Barry.
Your latest project: Harley 48 1200 Sporter
Who are three people that inspire/excite you:
1) Chip Foose
2) Dieter Rams
3) Peers, Friends and Family
What is your favourite…
Car/bike/plane/boat model: 1967 Porsche 911 / 1963 Parilla 250 Wildcat / Playboy plane / Dolvik 28
Chair model: Eames Lounge and Ottoman
Residential space: Falling Water
Commercial space: Sydney Opera House
Decorative product: Chinese Ru ware ceramics
Functional product: Victorinox SwissTool RS
Handmade good: Levis made to order jeans
Mass-produced good: iPhone
meal: Raclette
restaurant: my wife’s cooking
drink: Any wine by Some Young Punks
item in your studio: Aeron Chair
piece of technology: MacBook Air
historical figure: Bruce Lee
fictional character: Monkey Magic
vice: motorcycles
virtue: modesty (haha not very modest mentioning it)
What does the term ‘Design Hunter’ mean to you? Documenting and archiving design in a particular era and show casing them to the greater public.
Hightide – Queensland Design Now
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