SUSAN ELLIOTT
Sydney, NSW
FAVORITE FOOD: Noodles
FAVORITE PASTIME: Watching movies with Stella
NAUGHTIEST DEED: Teasing huskies
KNOWN ACCOMPLICES: Craig, Tok, Tarka and Stella
OBSESSIONS: Bath salts and football mullets of the ‘80s
PET PEEVE: Whistling
CRAIG MCGILL
Sydney, NSW
DATE OF BIRTH: Dead in dog years
FAVORITE FOOD: Roast duck and pinot noir
FAVORITE PASTIME: Ventriloquism and being a big kid
NAUGHTIEST DEED: Chasing huskies while stark naked
KNOWN ACCOMPLICES: Sue, Tok, Tarka and Stella
OBSESSIONS: Beer, wine and collecting useless things
PET PEEVE: Unoriginal ideas
Susan is a multi-skilled artist with a background in fine art, illustration and printmaking. After completing two years of a psychology degree, Sue changed to a career in art. She graduated from the City Art Institute in 1986, majoring in drawing, printmaking and painting.
After two years living abroad, Sue returned to Australia and exhibited her graphic art and screenprints extensively around Sydney while also working in a number of small design studios. She has developed into an award-winning graphic designer with over 17 years of experience in the industry.
Susan joined McGill Design Group in 1999 as co-owner and creative director. She is also co-founder and principal of the Giant Dog publishing house, which is responsible for producing a number of best-selling books including the Wine Dogs and Footy Dogs titles.
Susan's knowledge of dogs is unparalleled and in the past has also found time to be a successful Siberian husky breeder. She is considered amongst the pack to be a great owner. Sue is a lover of all white wine and usually reaches for her favorite riesling when feeling a little husky.
Originally from Shepparton, Victoria, Craig is a self-taught designer and illustrator who started his own design business in Melbourne at 18 years of age. During that time he was appointed as a design consultant to The Reserve Bank of Australia.
His designs and illustrations have graced banknotes throughout the world, including the Australian bicentenary ten-dollar note. His work appears on the original Australian $100 note, Papua New Guinea Kina, Cook Island Dollars and English Pound traveller’s cheques. Craig was also involved in the design and illustration of many countries’ security documents such as Passports, Bonds and Traveller’s Cheques.
At the age of 23 he designed the entire series of the Cook Island banknotes and it is believed that he was the world’s youngest designer to design a country’s complete currency. In 1991, Craig moved to Sydney where his illustrations were regularly commissioned by agencies and designers both in Australia and around the world.
He is now widely known as Australia’s only freelance currency designer. Craig has also designed and illustrated five stamps for Australia Post. Craig has been Creative Director of his own agency, McGill Design Group, for over twenty-three years.
Having grown up with a succession of beagles, Craig is now owned by three Siberian Huskies.