Tara Murray is currently located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada where she has recently completed her Masters Degree in Industrial Design from the University of Calgary. Her thesis project focused on product attachment - striving to maintain emotional connectedness to older products through new design. Her research and design interests have led her to explore products of Canadian pop culture, craft processes, aesthetic assessments and personal environments. Tara hopes to use these emotional and experiential design aspects of product attachment, identity, value, meaning and memory in future practice.

In her past exciting few years Tara has studied in Barcelona, Spain, attended conferences over Western Canada, exhibited and worked on small projects locally and was chosen to participate in an international design exhibit held in Edmonton.  Tara is currently working in industrial design and looks forward to further developing her skills and passion within the industry.