Dinosaur Designs

Resin bowls, vases and homeware Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy started Dinosaur Designs in 1985, and four decades on the resin pieces are still made by hand in the company's Sydney studio rather than outsourced to a factory. You can see it in the work: the colors swirl and cloud like polished stone or sea glass. Because each piece is made by hand, a salad bowl or vase here is a better buy for a centerpiece or a gift than for a perfectly matched set, and a far more distinctive thing to carry home from Australia than anything in a souvenir shop.