30UNDER30 Interior and Product Design

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We are thrilled to reveal the final cohort for Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers stream for 2024/2025. Selected by our esteemed 30UNDER30 mentors, this cohort is the future: the creatives, thinkers and doers who will shape our world. They have demonstrated exceptional talent and we are proud to give them the platform they deserve.

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Annie MacLean

Annie MacLean graduated as an interior architect in 2017 and has been fortunate to work in high-end residential design ever since. Before launching her business in 2022, she worked at Adam Kane Architects and Sally Caroline, exposing her to a rich and diverse understanding of interior design.

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Annie Paxton

Annie Paxton is a Naarm/Melbourne-based multidisciplinary designer. She works as an architect at Kennedy Nolan, alongside her creative arts practice which navigates the juncture between architecture and furniture/object to comprehend how design drives, and is driven, by the poetics of everyday life.

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Ashleigh Sullivan

Initially architecture-trained, Ashleigh Sullivan is a Brisbane-based designer at COX, operating at the intersection between interior space, systems, and people. She advocates for holistic outcomes that connect the public realm, architecture, and interiors. Throughout her career in Australia and Europe, she has specialised in designing educational, workplace, and civic interiors.

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Billie Murphy

Billie Murphy attributes growing up in Sydney close to the beach as responsible for igniting her interest in sustainability and the interaction between humans and the environment. This fascination led her to study Interior Design at UTS. She reveals her design philosophy mirrors her personality – thoughtful, yet adventurous and willing to take risks.

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Charlotte Paule

Charlotte Paule grew up surrounded by design as her parents collected antique furniture and her mother was an interior designer. From witnessing her mother’s passion for design and being immersed in antique pieces from a young age, she developed a deep appreciation for aesthetics and craftsmanship. She cites interior design as a natural pathway.

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Cristina M. Napoleone

Cristina M. Napoleone is a multi-award-winning emerging transdisciplinary artist-curator, designer and researcher, and the founder and director of TERRAIN. She has a background in geography from the University of Melbourne and the University of California, Berkeley, with a speciality in applied ecological ethics, more-than-humanism and climate communication.

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Despina Carpis Tsathas

Despina Carpis Tsathas has a passion for human-centric strategy and design – contributing to benchmark projects that emphasise wellbeing, sustainability and placemaking. Her interest in creating environments that support health and productivity drive her work, ensuring each space fosters a positive and balanced experience.

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Daniella Bassin

Daniella Bassin is a senior interior design at Carr, with a deep passion for design innovation that is authentically unique. She has a love for problem solving and using creativity to improve efficiency, and she thrives on collaboration and continuous interdisciplinary learning.

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Dalton Stewart

Dalton Stewart is a designer whose creative practice explores the overlap between architecture, design, and visual arts. He uses this intersection to uncover new systems of knowledge and worldviews for the future. His work examines deconstruction and reuse to explore the complex history and cultural significance of buildings, materials and processes.

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Eloise McCullough

Eloise McCullough is a Melbourne-based contemporary glass designer and maker. Founding the business Fools Glass in 2021, she has used her design background to carve out a niche collaborating with architects and interior designers. She specialises in leadlighting, kiln-formed glass and copper foiling, bringing a modern edge to traditional techniques.

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Eddie Poate

Eddie Poate is a creative and explorative designer who is eager to learn and adapt in the industry. Poate is obsessed with finishes, and loves discovering innovative materials. His passion lies in crafting thoughtful designs that resonate with users and enhances their experiences.

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Florence Davies

Florence Davies is an emerging interior designer passionate about her craft. Inspired by films, fashion and thrift shopping, she aims to combine styles to create a worldly and timeless aesthetic. Her favourite interiors blend historic materials with contemporary design to spark curiosity.

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Kaila Cicchini

Kaila Cicchini is a passionate and driven Italian-Australia, who has dedicated her design career to giving everything 110 percent. She believes that the roles of designers are not only to ensure their designs tell a story that resonates, but paves the way for the next generation of design professionals.

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Ilianna Ginnis

Ilianna Ginnis is an interior architectural designer, access consultant and neuro-inclusive design specialist at Architecture & Access. She is also a PhD candidate and research officer at the Design Health Collab at Monash University.

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Julia Prell

Julia Prell strongly believes in human-centric design principles, and particularly grounding her work in its contextual environment. Prell is interested in how we can harness ever-changing technology in the way we work, and she is excited for the next phase of live.

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Kate Riley

Kate Riley is a senior interior designer at Richards Stanisich. She describes herself as innately curious and driven to engage in passionate conversations about the things that resonate with her, particularly the complexities of the design industry. She believes that learning comes from surrounding herself with people who have diverse opinions, at the same time as observing social dynamics.

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Katherine Luu

Katherine Luu is a registered architect, specialising in interiors at SJB. Luu’s experience encompasses a diverse range of sectors including education, residential, workplace and civic spaces. Collectively, these experiences are expressed through her multifaceted approach to design and her commitment to mentorship within SJB.

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Lachlan Mackay

Lachlan Mackay is an industrial designer from Melbourne with a passion for collaboration and the creative chaos it brings. Specialising in design and manufacture—from individual pieces to entire environments—he has refined an empathetic and supportive approach that brings creatives visions to life, culminating in the founding of Space-man Studio.

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Maryam Moghadam

Maryam Moghadam is a product designer who describes herself as an artist at heart. She believes that furniture and object design can be a practice with design goals beyond aesthetics and function. Through her creative practice and work as a high school workshop technician, Moghadam pushes the boundaries of design through humour and questioning the status quo.

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Mariah Burton

Mariah Burton is the founder and director of interior design practice Folk Studio. Since childhood, Burton has held a deep desire to enhance the mental and physical well-being of people through their environment. Passionate about diversifying the industry, Burton hopes to be a pilar of inspiration for people of colour in creative fields and transform everyone’s day-to-day through design.

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Margot Lapalus

Margot Lapalus is an associate at Cox architecture. Having recently stepped into this leadership role, she is eager to engage with the cohort and mentors to elevate her own leadership skills. Lapalus describes herself as always being up for new challenges, thriving in a collaborative environment and valuing the exchange of ideas.

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Nina Matyas

Nina Matyas is an associate interior designer at Matyas architects and founder of Matyas interiors. Growing up in a family of architects and designers, Matyas brings a lifetime of experience to her practice. A passionate advocate for the value of interior design, she supports a registration system and actively educates the public and her clients at every opportunity.

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Rachel Santos

Rachel Santos is a multi-award-winning interior designer with a strong interest in interdisciplinary design with works that span across the commercial, hospitality, and residential sectors. Merging interior design, architecture, product design, and styling Santos creates outcomes that enrich everyday life both physically and emotionally.

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Sophie Kebbell

Sophie Kebbell is a passionate senior interior designer based in Brisbane but originally from Melbourne. With more than five years of experience at Hassell, Kebbell’s work spans across multiple sectors, including education, science, commercial, urban and health.

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Soozy Lee

Soozy Lee is an accomplished interior designer who views design as a problem-solving process. As both a creative and collaborative individual, Lee has a keen eye for detail and a passion for making mindful decisions. She strives to minimise environmental impact in every project she undertakes.

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Samantha Wardle

Samantha Wardle is an interior designer and co-founder of Some Studio. Her design approach is nurtured by an intuitive eye and a desire to foster spatial narratives that prompt thought and are rich in meaning. When not designing, Wardle immerses herself in literature and researching metabolic and integrative health.

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Siena Crestani

Siena Crestani is an interior designer who grew up spending most of her time exploring the outdoors, creating art and dancing. This playfulness and tranquility has followed through into her career as she strives to infuse each space she designs with pockets of both fun and serenity.

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Taylah Cheeseman

An energetic, passionate & creatively minded person drawn to the hospitality design industry and the impactful interiors she creates, Taylah Cheeseman continually strives to exceed her own expectations, maintaining high standards in both the quality of her work and the relationships she builds.

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Tamara Glick

Working as a Project Architect at IF Architecture for the last six and a half years, Tamara Glick has led a number of award-winning, interior focused projects from conception to completion. As a designer, her aim is to achieve a considered, detailed and unique outcome that speaks to the design brief.

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Vincent Tsang

Vincent Tsang, is an industrial designer passionate about observing culture and delving into research. He thrives on collaboration, especially across disciplines, and draws inspiration from both the old and new. Tsang keeps a catalog of discoveries, ready to fuel future projects whenever the moment calls for it.

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30UNDER30 2024-25 Final 30

Australian Design Review's 30UNDER30 2024/25

Annie MacLean

Annie Paxton

Ashleigh Sullivan

Billie Murphy

Charlotte Paule

Cristina M. Napoleone

Despina Carpis Tsathas

Daniella Bassin

Dalton Stewart

Eloise McCullough

Eddie Poate

Florence Davies

Kaila Cicchini

Ilianna Ginnis

Julia Prell

Annie MacLean

Annie Paxton

Ashleigh Sullivan

Billie Murphy

Charlotte Paule

Cristina M. Napoleone

Despina Carpis Tsathas

Daniella Bassin

Dalton Stewart

Eloise McCullough

Eddie Poate

Florence Davies

Kaila Cicchini

Ilianna Ginnis

Julia Prell

Kate Riley

Katherine Luu

Lachlan Mackay

Maryam Moghadam

Mariah Burton

Margot Lapalus

Nina Matyas

Rachel Santos

Sophie Kebbell

Soozy Lee

Samantha Wardle

Siena Crestani

Taylah Cheeseman

Tamara Glick

Vincent Tsang

Kate Riley

Katherine Luu

Lachlan Mackay

Maryam Moghadam

Mariah Burton

Margot Lapalus

Nina Matyas

Rachel Santos

Sophie Kebbell

Soozy Lee

Samantha Wardle

Siena Crestani

Taylah Cheeseman

Tamara Glick

Vincent Tsang