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30UNDER30 2025-26 Final 30

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Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 cohort for 2025/2026 represents the emerging interior designers, architects, product designers and innovators of the built world shaping the Australian design landscape.
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Alana Beveridge
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Anny Benjamin
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Joss Knight
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Alana Beveridge

As a multifaceted designer, Alana Beveridge’s focus blends interior architecture, furniture and object design with a deep appreciation for warmth, art and history with contemporary sensibilities. She creates bespoke, intimate designs from interiors to objects that celebrate craftsmanship, materials and a sense of place, bringing curiosity and rigour to every project.

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Angela Liang

Angela Liang’s work explores how people, place and culture shape the spaces we create. Through residential projects, she uses drawing as an influential problem-solving design method. She sees drawing as a framework for collaboration – a way to think collectively, test ideas and build shared understanding.

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Anny Benjamin

Anny Benjamin is the founder of Studio ab. Her work balances intuition and discipline, translating stories into soulful, intentional spaces. As both designer and educator, she is guided by curiosity, mentorship and growth values that align with ADR’s 30UNDER30 program and reflect her commitment to shaping an honest, enduring design future.

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Ava Minji Kim

Ava Minji Kim is an architect based in Adelaide with experience across Seoul, Lisbon, Paris and New York. Her work explores the intersection of people, place and technology – using design as a problem-solving tool to connect cultures, reinterpret context and create architecture that is both grounded and transformative.

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Awkar Ruel

Awkar Ruel is an architect and transdisciplinary creative practitioner passionate about connecting people, place and purpose. Guided by curiosity and collaboration, his work spans architecture, sustainability and social impact. He explores the edge of what is possible, using design as a catalyst for interdisciplinary innovation and solutions to complex global challenges.

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Ben Hovav

Ben Hovav believes our cities reflect who we are. As an architect and urban designer, his experiences studying at Politecnico di Milano and TU Delft, and practising in Rotterdam and Brisbane, have shaped a belief in design as both craft and catalyst – a way to connect people, place and possibility.

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Blake Hillebrand

Blake Hillebrand is a Melbourne-born, London-raised emerging Australian designer whose work moves across architecture, sustainability and advocacy. Operating between practice, policy and public culture, he combines strategy and craft to shape systems that foster equity and connection, advancing design through civic projects, social enterprise and leadership as a catalyst for change.

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Candyce Huntsman

Candyce Huntsman is the Director of AKI design, a multidisciplinary design firm based in Melbourne. She is mum to a three-year-old daughter, studied an honours degree in interior architecture and has been working in the design industry for the past decade across fashion, visual merchandising and interior design.

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Carmelo Nastasi

Carmelo Nastasi is a multi award-winning designer and architecture graduate from the University of Sydney, driven by a passion for process-driven, purpose-built architecture that considers vernacular site histories and sustainable outcomes. His experience spans high-level masterplanning, large-scale retail, education and transport precincts, through to boutique residential design, exhibition and furniture design.

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Dasha Tolotchkov

Dasha Tolotchkov is an interior designer, currently working within exhibition design. Her work revolves around interdisciplinary spatial practice that explores the connection between installation, performance and interior design, with a focus on performativity within the interior. She has worked in interiors, previously working on residential and retail projects, and now exhibitions.

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Isabella White

Having trained in architecture, and after working as a graduate, Isabella White realised there was a growing rift between the architectural industry and the public’s understanding of the built environment. Her goal has been to bridge that gap by making short and informative videos connecting the public to architecture on TikTok.

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Jack Crowe

As DKO’s videographer and social media manager, Jack Crowe has found his creative home in architecture. He’s passionate about documenting the design process and using storytelling to connect people with the spaces and ideas that shape our built environment.

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Joss Knight

Joss Knight is an interior designer and founder of Studiojos, a Sydney-based design studio focused on creating tactile, timeless spaces that merge architecture, interiors and emotion. His work explores how materiality, light and proportion shape experience – from private residences to his lifestyle brand, KNIGHTLY, redefining home rituals through design.

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Kiara Carroll

Kiara Carroll is a strategic design professional and emerging industry leader with experience delivering complex public and private sector projects across commercial, mixed-use and government sectors. Her track record in social impact, sustainability advocacy and cross-disciplinary coordination illustrates her passion and drive for delivering positive, creative and user-focused outcomes.

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Lachlan Kirkland

Lachlan Kirkland is a 26-year-old creative that grew up on the coast in Port Macquarie; living on acreage he created his own magical worlds in both the trees and ocean to play in. Now residing in Randwick he is still trying to create these places.

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Levi Birks
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Maeve Mullane
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Marlo Lyda
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Milica Božić
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Morgan Wolpers
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Nguyen Hoang Bui
Nissie Bungbrakearti
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Nissie Bungbrakearti
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Pearl Dempsey
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Phoebe Allen
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Rhiana Roberts
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Sarah Barrett
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Shalini Rautela
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Sidney Ford
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Simone Carmody
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Zac Vassallo
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Levi Birks

Levi Birks is a Brisbane-based designer interested in civic, hotel and high-end residential projects that prioritise human scale, utility and delight. He draws from diverse and unconventional disciplines to bring a fresh, thoughtful perspective to how people experience and inhabit their cities and create buildings that are worth keeping.

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Maeve Mullane

Maeve Mullane is a passionate interior designer from Gadigal, Maroubra. Growing up, the beach and bushland were her backyard – a place for endless redecorating, repairing and reinventing. Not much has changed. Sydney is where she continues to channel her love of art, culture and the environment into meaningful work.

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Marlo Lyda

Marlo Lyda is a Sydney-based designer, maker and educator working across furniture and lighting. A Design Academy Eindhoven alum, she creates sculptural works rooted in material experimentation, narrative and revaluing overlooked resources. Recent highlights include exhibitions at the NGV and Powerhouse Museum, and founding MATTERS, a platform for emerging Australian design.

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Milica Božić

Milica Božić is a researcher and curator originally from Belgrade, Serbia. Her curatorial practice explores experimental and open-ended encounters with heritage through exhibitions and events about architecture. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellow at RMIT University and Politecnico di Milano through the REDI double-degree program.

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Morgan Wolpers

Morgan Wolpers is an interior designer from Perth now based in Sydney, currently with Lawless & Meyerson. Her unconventional path from nursing to design began in her mid-20s and has taken her across Australia, Amsterdam and New York. She aims to create spaces that celebrate daily rituals and authentic human connection.

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Nguyen Hoang Bui

Nguyen Hoang Bui is an emerging designer driven by the interplay of materiality, culture and community. His work seeks to honour history and place while enriching the everyday life of its users by creating interiors that are not only functional, but emotionally resonant and atmospherically grounded.

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Nissie Bungbrakearti

Nissie Bungbrakearti is a nearing-30, chronic perfectionist and computational designer. She uses parametric tools to justify design through data, specialising in complex geometries and environmental analysis. Her interests lie in seeking out new challenges and innovations, while trying to navigate how to better lead in this male dominated field.

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Pearl Dempsey

Pearl Dempsey is an associate architect at Searle x Waldron Architecture, working across education, sports, workplace and civic projects over the past seven years, while also teaching at Monash University. Known for her thoughtful, empathetic and collaborative approach, I create meaningful impact through clever design moves that maximise every opportunity.

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Phoebe Allen

Phoebe Allen is a creative designer with a refined minimalist approach, recently influenced by Japanese and Korean aesthetics and design. Growing up in a family deeply rooted in the creative arts nurtured her love for art from a young age, shaping her into the designer she is today.

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Rhiana Roberts

Rhiana Roberts is an interior designer who is passionate about creating sustainable interiors that improve occupants’ health and wellbeing. She has a drive for exceptional design with experience in large practice, and loves the practical application of sustainability that can be applied to workplace interiors.

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Sarah Barrett

Sarah Barrett is a passionate and detail-oriented interior designer, specialising in workplace and large-scale civic projects. Committed to research, combined with a passion for art curation and fine art, she brings a grounded yet rigorous approach to the design process, thoroughly interrogating constraints to develop innovative, considered solutions to contemporary challenges.

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Shalini Rautela

Shalini Rautela is an architectural graduate and multidisciplinary designer based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga). Her practice spans buildings, furniture and installations. Alongside architectural work, she teaches at the University of Melbourne, curate with New Architects Melbourne and lead Studio-Dirt – a self-directed practice exploring the intersection between architecture and construction.

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Sidney Ford

Sidney Ford is driven by the power of design to shape how people feel and interact with space. His work embraces human-centred design that elevates everyday experiences and evokes calm and beauty. He holds Associate Degree in Interior decoration and design at RMIT, where he received the Janne Faulkner Prize for Design Excellence.

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Simone Carmody

Simone Carmody is an emerging architect passionate about designing spaces that connect people, place and the planet. Her work focuses on sustainable and regenerative design approaches that honour Country and community. She brings authenticity, curiosity and collaboration to every project, aiming to create environments that inspire learning and belonging.

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Zac Vassallo

Zac Vassallo is an industrial designer, maker and teacher living and working on Wurundjeri Woi Woorung and Bunurong Land. He works in the ecological design space and considers himself privileged to be able to create products that aim to work with nature rather than against it.

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