about us.

Creative production partners.

At Human Dynamo, we turn ambitious ideas into beautifully crafted realities. From public art and exhibitions, to products, props and immersive experiences, our team of industrial designers and fabricators push creative boundaries every day.

From our workshop in Wellington, Aotearoa NZ — delivered anywhere across the motu and around the world.

our story.

Human Dynamo was born from a shared passion for making, and a deep curiosity about how things are created. Founders and husband and wife team, Rob Uivel and Sue Dorrington, combined their industrial design and visual communication roots to build a workshop and studio that transforms ideas into extraordinary builds.

Starting in a basement in the 1980s and fuelled by late-night film set builds and experimental model-making, Rob forged a reputation for creativity and technical ingenuity — from building a replica 1:1 scale model of a F18 fighter jet that was realistic enough to fool the NZ Army, to studying Ceramic Design & Manufacture in England.

Sue, a visual thinker with a background in art direction and design, joined the workshop and studio in 2001, helping to evolve Human Dynamo into the collaborative, CAD-driven, multi-disciplinary creative production partner it is today.

Over the years, we have grown from a team of two to a collective of dynamo designers, makers, and problem-solvers delivering world-class work across contemporary art, exhibitions, film, architecture, and more. What hasn’t changed is our belief in the power of material, process and craft, and a relentless curiosity about how things are made.

From hand-built prototypes to large-scale installations, Human Dynamo is where creative vision meets technical execution, and ideas are brought to life in ways many never thought possible.