Steve is an industrial designer, illustrator and author working in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. His projects explore science, engineering, climate change and rewilding.

Steve’s book of outrageous sounding, but theoretically possible ecological inventions, Ultrawild (Allen & Unwin 2023) has been translated into German (Rotfuchs, 2024), and will be published as French and Chinese translations, and a US version, in 2025.

Steve has over 20 years experience working as an industrial designer on sustainability projects, designing science based exhibitions and playspaces, teaching design, and running workshops exploring sustainable futures.

Steve’s satirical future inventions were exhibited by The Australian Design Centre as part of CUSP (2013), a touring exhibition of futures design thinking. In August 2014, his exhibition Now If What Then: Farming Tokyo was exhibited as a solo show at Spiral contemporary art gallery in Japan, in collaboration with The Tokyo University of Agriculture. This exhibition presented 10 of Steve’s projects which re-imagined the world’s largest city as self sufficient in food production. His designs have also been exhibited in Sydney at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery (2015), at The Glasshouse in Port Macquarie (2016), and at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (2017).