About Us

Our enthusiastic team, with over 25 years of collective experience, bring to the table a wide variety of different skills to ensure our client’s needs are met in all areas of graphic design. All graduates from the Canberra Institute of Technology, Meta’s team know the Canberra market well and apply this to the projects that they design for you.

Mat Knobel
Creative / Studio Manager

Mat is Meta’s Creative/Studio Manager. He has been with the studio for five years. As well as overseeing and managing all creative output from the team, Mat handles the day to day running of the studio. Part of Mat’s role is business development and client consultation.

Mat has worked in a variety of high profile design studios involved in all aspects of design from information design to the fast paced work of advertising. He has a great deal of experience in design and approaches his work with a fresh enthusiasm, a willingness to explore plus a delivery that is professional and that hits the mark over and over again.

George Rosisnanyi
Senior Designer

George studied at the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) and graduated in 1994. George has worked in many parts of the graphic design industry gaining invaluable experience from creative right through to prepress. George has worked for Maven Online Media, K-Otic Design, Department of Urban Services Publishing Services and lectured in design at the CIT.

George is Meta’s Senior Designer and works on the designs of most major projects as well as sharing business development duties with Mat.

Trish Wigens
Graphic Designer

Trish graduated from the University of Canberra in 2007 with a Bachelor of Graphic Design. Along with her design skills, Trish has added experience in advertising, public relations and project management. She brings a love of illustration, photography and typography to the studio along with strengths in composition, layout and pre-press.

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Aaron Hall
Editor

Aaron has worked continuously as a journalist/editor since 1992.

He spent many years telling the stories of rural and remote Australia, but he has also had wide-ranging experience in editing technical publications, notably in the mining, pharmaceutical and health-care fields.

Aaron’s career started with small-town newspapers in NSW’s New England district, covering all aspects of rural life.

He went on to work for several years at a newspaper serving the Hawkesbury district.

Aaron then spent several years in Sydney editing resources-industry magazines. This often involved explaining complex geological concepts in ways that were understandable for a lay person, but also informative for an expert audience. In covering the resources industry, Aaron spent much of his time filing stories from remote regions in every state.

Following his time covering the resources industry, Aaron took over as editor of magazines covering the pharmacy sector and related public health areas. Some of these targeted a specialist professional audience while others were aimed at general consumers. As with the resources field, Aaron’s work in the pharmacy sector has involved explaining complex technical subjects to both specialist and lay audiences.

Aaron has travelled widely throughout regional Australia – gaining familiarity with the diversity of landscapes in this country – and every other inhabited continent.

As the son of a rural doctor who also owns a cattle property, Aaron grew up in country towns in NSW and western Victoria. .

He now works as Public Affairs Manager for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, part-time as a news sub-editor at The Canberra Times and as a freelance editor/journalist.

Aaron has worked in partnership with Meta for three years.

Karen Hobson
Editor

Karen Hobson has been working journalist/sub-editor for 25 years.

Karen currently works as the chief copy sub-editor on the news desk at The Canberra Times (the “Check Sub”) and as a freelance editor for a range of organisations. At the Times she is responsible for ensuring consistency and accuracy. To help the newspaper adhere to a consistent style, Karen wrote The Canberra Times Style Guide used by all editorial staff.

She has an unsurpassed eye for detail and an ability to transform the most complex texts into reader-friendly copy.

As a freelance editor Karen’s most recent projects have been a publication on power usage up to 2020 (for the Federal Department of Environment, Water and Heritage) and a series of managerial newsletters for the Australian Customs Service.

Karen lives on a rural property near Gundaroo, NSW.