About Us
Play by Design is a specialist team that collaborates with clients and planners to create fun, challenging, safe, play and sport environments for local government, developers, schools, and child care centres.
With over 20 years of experience, Play by Design provides complete solutions from initial planning and design, through to installation and construction.
- Climbing Rope Structures
- School Age Structures
- Early Childhood
- Youth
- Themed Play
- Inclusive Play
- Digital Play
- Play Sculptures
- Moving Equipment
- Sensory and Sound
- Water and Sand
- Multi courts
- Fitness
- Active Aging
- Skate Parks
- Furniture
Our Vision
Providing unique, high quality play environments
for children of all ages and abilities
in communities across NSW & ACT
Meet the Team
Michael Armati
Director/Landscape Architect
Peter Mathiesen
Landscape Architect
Michael Higgins
Project Manager
Caroline Sleap
Playground Consultant
Brigid Carson
Senior Landscape Architect / Play Consultant
Annabelle Fitzsimmons
Landscape Architect / Play Consultant
Farrell Brocklebank
Business Development/Play Consultant
Kate Pham
Playground Consultant
Why Us
- Play by Design offers the most unique and innovative playground equipment available on the market.
- Play by Design delivers ‘one of a kind’ custom rope and play structures to clients.
- Play by Design has worked successfully with some of NSW and ACT’s largest and most recognised landscape architects, architects and contractors.
- We have a team of landscape architects and project managers who have designed and managed the construction of some of the most innovative and exciting playground projects in NSW and the ACT.
- Play by Design pride ourselves on the ability to collaborate with planners, designers, architects and landscape architects to specify and deliver quality playground solutions. Bringing these solutions to life are often our proudest moments.
- We work closely with developers and contractors to ensure our equipment is delivered to project schedules and installed with consideration to an entire project.
- Our experienced installers are meticulous in their approach to install equipment to the standard and in a professional manager.
- All equipment supplied by Play by Design complies to AS4685:2014 (Part 1-6)
- The Play by Design team not only have complete knowledge of the current playground standards but vast knowledge experiences on safe play design principles.
- Every equipment piece provided has been independently certified by a recognised safety and compliance expert.
- We provide a certificate of compliance with every job.
- We are representing equipment suppliers providing products that have years of research and development to not only meet the direct needs of the users, but its longevity and functionality as a product in the market.
- Playground equipment provided by Play by Design has LIFE TIME warranties on some parts and a comprehensive spare parts policy.
- We have access to stock warehouses and some parts can be dispatched with in 24 hours of acceptance of our replacement quotation.
- Play by Design takes responsibility for the impact of all its activities, products and services; with all quoted playground projects proudly certified to ISO 9001, ISO 4001 and OHSAS 18001.
Our Partners
It’s important to share a vision when creating unique play spaces. Play by Design values creativity, innovation, quality, health and learning; associating themselves with like-minded partners. From design into production and through installation, these values are upheld ensuring only the best possible outcomes for each of our playgrounds.