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The designer who never retired 5 July 2021 Amy Jarvis pays tribute to Derek Wrigley - a designer who left his touch on almost every part of the ANU campus. Derek Wrigley believed that design had the power to change the world for the better. Taking a look at his 70 year career, it seems he was right. A pioneering powerhouse of design, Derek's fingerprints are all over the ANU campus, often hidden in plain sight. Born in Oldham, Lancashire on 16 February 1924, Derek Wrigley was the elder of two children for Harold and Rose Wrigley (nee Bradley). Derek's sister and lifelong friend Shirley (Kra...

OBITUARY / Derek Fuller Wrigley, OAM, February 16, 1924, Oldham, Lancashire – June 22, 2021, Canberra. MASTER designer Derek Wrigley, who died on June 22 in Canberra left an extraordinary legacy in Canberra, Australia and arguably the world. Derek came to Australia in 1947. He worked for a short time with a firm of architects in Sydney and then became a lecturer in architecture at Sydney Technical College & University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales). In 1956 he was the co-founder, with Fred Ward, of the Industrial Design Council of Australia, (IDCA) and was the first ...