OUR STORY...
Neo3DT was founded by Nat Stratos—fashion designer, costume designer, and creative director with over 25 years of experience across fashion, textiles, and graphic design.
Nat’s career spans commercial design, cultural development, and innovation-led practice. She has worked with leading global and Australian brands, including adidas, contributing to Stella McCartney for adidas, and projects such as the Mattel Barbie Concept Store in Shanghai, bringing together fashion, storytelling, and brand experience at an international level.
Nat's experience also extends into functional apparel design, including Defence training and PT Kids uniforms for the Army, Airforce and Navy, developed with a focus on durability, performance, and circular design principles.
Over a 12-year period, Nat also worked as a Costume & Apparel Designer and Cultural Development Practitioner, delivering socially engaged design initiatives and community-led creative programs, including work connected to Promenade Theatre. This experience shaped a design approach grounded in storytelling, participation, and social impact.
Design for circular design systems
Alongside her current industry practice in, Nat’s work is deeply rooted in fashion and jewellery design for innovation , exploring how human-centred design and material innovation can support transitions toward circular, ethical, and sustainable futures.
She holds a Master of Design Futures (Distinction) from RMIT University, where her research investigated fashion and textiles through a human-centred design lens, her practice has evolved designing circular design workshops for Schools and Universities using co-design, community-led approaches systems thinking and design thinking to support the creation of circular fashion systems.
Nat is also an advocate for circular design education and a advocate and spokesperson in emergent human-centred design practices, including co-design, design thinking, and transition design—working at the intersection of people, systems, and future-focused circular design.
Where it began
It began in 2020—with tequila, and a problem to solve.
While developing the Zero Waste Intervention Jacket, Nat was searching for sustainable, bio-based buttons that aligned with circular design principles and purpose. Nothing available felt both design-led and materially responsible. That gap led to experimentation.
During COVID, Nat discovered PLA—a plant-based material derived from cornstarch—and purchased a 3D printer to explore new ways of making. What began as material testing quickly evolved into designing 3D printed jewellery and components that could be produced on demand.
The brand was sparked during a virtual tequila tasting. The first pieces — a series of 3D printed earrings — created for friends attending. In that moment came the realisation: design could move directly from digital file to physical object using an additive, zero-waste process, enabling local, small-batch production.
That moment shifted everything.
It opened up a new way of thinking about sustainable fashion, circular design, and 3D printed accessories—where products are made only when needed and designed with their next life in mind.
From there, the questions expanded:
- Could fashion and accessories be produced without excess?
- Could jewellery and garments exist within a closed-loop system, where materials are continuously regenerated?
Neo3DT grew from this intersection of necessity, experimentation, and intent—evolving into a platform for plant-based 3D printed jewellery, zero waste couture, bespoke accessories, and circular fashion design.
Our Purpose
Neo3DT exists to create alignment—designing pieces that allow people to express who they are without compromising what they believe. It is a response to disposable fashion, shifting toward something more considered, expressive, and connected, where what you wear reflects not just your style, but your values.
Built on circular thinking, Neo3DT operates as a different system. Pieces are made to order, materials are consciously selected, and products are designed to return, be reprocessed, and reimagined—because fashion shouldn’t end at purchase, it should evolve.
Looking forward, Neo3DT continues to explore the intersection of technology, craft, community, and circular design, from sculptural jewellery to runway-ready pieces and participatory workshops—pushing boundaries while remaining grounded in purpose.