If you’ve been in the digital graphic design or art field since the desktop publishing revolution of the 1980s you’ve probably spent your career shackled to a desktop (or laptop) system on a table, the notion of designing or working anywhere else quite alien.

The experience intrigued commercial illustrator and graphic designer Paul Katte and model enthusiast Nick Nicolaou and encouraged them to open the Sydney doors of Make-up Effects Group 20 years ago this year.