Gillian Corban Email & Phone Number

Partner and co-founder. My role is to lead and motivate our team to be open minded, experiment, learn, be curious and creative. We search for new opportunities, processes, materials and techniques to engage our customers and design for their needs.Our focus is on sustainable products made locally from recycled materials in collaboration with other designers, artists, poets & artisans.Our approach is to work closely with our customers exploring product solutions that are valued, acknowledge women, lower our environmental footprint, convey brand messages and showcase our Australian culture. To deliver this we will continue to collaborate with other talented artists and artisans.We believe presentations and gifts need to be meaningful.Our clients include, Westpac, Qantas, American Express, ANZ, AMP, Commonwealth Bank, Deloitte, Domain, UNSW, Virgin Australia, Lend Lease, Melbourne Uni, UQ, and Optus. At Corban & Blair we design clever product solutions, by challenging the status quo. We always aim to inform and delight our customers with our stylish marketing solutions and deliver on time and budget. We manufacture in Australia, China and New Zealand. Since COVID our focus is Australian made.Products thoughtfully designed tell stories and have significance, well beyond their primary purpose as marketing tools or gifts. We design to order and also hold popular items in stock for fast turn-around. These can be personalised with logos, elastics, writing pads, inserts, messages, bags, wraps and packaging.Items include; leather A4, A5 and A6 journals and notebooks, compendia, travel wallets, luggage tags, card holders, portfolios, folders, presentation covers, albums, photo frames and boxes. 

In Sydney we design and manufacture small and large runs. We work closely with customers, often printers and agencies to get products of excellent quality.Through my business journey I have met many wonderful people, been challenged by economic ups and downs, travelled for business, worked with other cultures thus making our Corban & Blair business journey exciting and fun.

Listed skills include Entrepreneurship, Product Development, Strategy, Strategic Planning, and 21 others.