30UNDER30 Interior and Product Design

Brought to you by

After careful deliberation by the shortlist judges, we are proud to reveal the shortlist for Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 cohort in 2025/2026.

This 66-strong shortlist is the future: the interior designers, architects, product designers and innovators of the built world who will shape the Australian design landscape. They have demonstrated exceptional talent and we are proud to uplift their work. The final 30UNDER30 for cohort will be revealed on 12 February 2026. Subscribe for updates.

Shortlist

Angela Liang

Shortlist

Ben Hovav

Shortlist

Candyce Huntsman

Shortlist

Isabella White

Shortlist

Jade Layton

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Aris Ioannou-Marsh

Aris Ioannou-Marsh is a design professional living, working and creating on Gadi Country. In his work, he wears many hats as studio lead at SJB’s Sydney studio, co-founder of Architecture with Pride, and a member of the Perspectives curatorial team.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Brodie Robertson

Brodie Robertson is an associate at BVN, Sydney, passionate about sustainability, public architecture and education. He believes in design that serves communities and fosters environmental responsibility. His work aims to create inclusive spaces that inspire learning and connection.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Caroline Thomas

Outside of design, Caroline Thomas is passionate about the outdoors, hiking, camping and discovering hidden beauty – with many trips taken, and thousands more to come. She also loves vintage cars. While not financially responsible, the joy and freedom they bring makes every drive (and every repair) completely worth it.

Shortlist

Claudia Lau

Claudia Lau is a ceramic designer and the founder and creative director of House Editions, a porcelain design and production studio. Her practice spans the disciplines of art, design and production, materialising through a spectrum of functional and domestic objects to sculpture, interiors and installation.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

David Carter

David Carter is a Canberra-based multidisciplinary designer with a background in architecture and digital design. As senior urban designer at Place Logic, he draws on his design skills and urbanism knowledge to shape the built environment towards a more sustainable future through practical, inclusive and human-centric design outcomes.

Shortlist

Dinel Meyepa

Outgoing and curious, Dinel Meyepa noticed that he seeks experiences that continually challenge and encourage him to develop creatively within them, whether experimenting with food, documenting ideas and adventures or playing sport. Professionally, he’s an associate at Populous, bringing this same curiosity and ambition to his work in architectural practice.

Shortlist

Eloise Leopold

Eloise Leopold is an urban designer driven to interrogate the mechanisms by which alternative models of urbanism can enact social and spatial justice. Motivated by curiosity, creativity and a commitment to equity, her practice champions data-driven and community-led design to empower all city dwellers to live, stay and play in our public places.

Shortlist

Francesc Baena Moreno

Francesc Baena Moreno is a 25-year-old designer from Barcelona currently living in Sydney. He’s an enthusiastic and passionate person, driven by curiosity, creativity and constant learning. His mission is to keep finding new ways to express how she sees the world through architecture, design, art and music, sharing those stories with others.

Shortlist

Gabrielle Veringa

Gabrielle Veringa is an urban architect with qualifications in interiors, architecture, environment and planning. She is driven to gain deep knowledge of place, bringing an archaeologist-like sensitivity to each layer of detail. With her tenacious, ever curious nature, she seeks to reveal that solutions to urban challenges lie in their patterns across scales.

Shortlist

Hailey Zhang

Hailey Zhang is a graduate of architecture at Woods Bagot Sydney, where she’s worked for over three years on diverse projects under renowned architects Domenic Alvaro and Tracey Wiles. Her design approach values bespoke, context-driven architecture that merges creativity, craft and purpose to create spaces with enduring beauty and meaning.

Shortlist

Hung Hin Chan

Hung Hin Chan is a Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based designer and craftsman exploring the relationship between material, culture and sustainability. With a background in furniture, lighting and object design, his practice focuses on transforming ordinary materials into meaningful design expressions that invite curiosity, challenge convention and celebrate the beauty of making.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Isobel Moy

Isobel Moy is an architect who has been working at WOWOWA Architecture since 2017, contributing as a key designer within the practice – mostly on residential projects. She completed architectural studies at RMIT University, graduating with distinction in 2021. In 2019, she studied abroad at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Jade Layton

Jade Layton is passionate and driven, dedicated to quality and continual growth. After several years in London working on high-end commercial workplace projects, she returned to Australia to co-found her own practice with like-minded architects. Together, they are pushing boundaries in residential and education architecture through considered, human-centred design.

Shortlist

Jayesh Soul

Across India, Kenya, Italy and Australia, Jayesh Soul learned that architecture speaks through movement, memory and belonging. Each place reveals that design lives not in walls, but in the making of spaces between: the courtyards, streets and thresholds where people gather, share and turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Shortlist

Jeffrey Liu

Jeffrey Liu is driven by curiosity, creativity and technical precision, with a passion for architecture’s role in shaping communities and delivering lasting impact. His work spans city-shaping infrastructure, much needed housing and architectural education, always guided by a commitment to innovation and sustainability.

Shortlist

Jessica Broad

Jessica Broad is an architecture graduate working in practice at Snøhetta, with a background in the education sector. She has professional experience in digital fabrication and teaching, and special interests in product design, emerging materials and generative design. She engages with practice design across various scales and disciplines.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Kasia Wsol

Working across product, material and spatial design, and with a background in environmental engineering, Kasia Wsol bridges creative thinking with technical execution. Her work spans commercial furniture to creative mirrored objects, moving between industrial production and small-scale experimentation.

Shortlist

Ketsa Jerome Leben

Born and raised in India, Ketsa Jerome Leben is the founder of SOW Architecture & Design and a proud mum. When she’s not on-site or chasing her one-year-old, she is on the soccer field or renovating her 1880s miner’s cottage. She loves DIY projects, great food and a good reality show.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Liam Low Yong Ging

Liam Low Yong Ging, co-founder of Reka, is a curious and creative individual who sees the world through many lenses – linguistic, artistic and visual. He enjoyed a short stint as a wedding photographer before pursuing a Master’s degree. He now delivers city-shaping projects as an architect while pursuing a career in academia.

Shortlist

Meagan Velleman

Shortlist

Nick Carfora

Shortlist

Pearl Dempsey

Shortlist

Rhiana Roberts

Shortlist

Sidney Ford

Shortlist

Louy Bell

Louy Bell grew up on the land and was shaped by an early rural upbringing, later enriched by education away from home, mentoring from inspiring creatives throughout my career, and extensive international travel and experiences. She values continuous learning, adaptability and curiosity, always seeking opportunities to grow both personally and professionally.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Maggie Craig

Maggie Craig is a 29-year-old interior designer based in Melbourne. Originally from Adelaide, she relocated earlier this year seeking greater access to suppliers, consultants and industry events, with the hope that the move may help make it easier to engage more with the design community and expand her professional opportunities.

Shortlist

Maria Papadopoulos

Born in Athens and raised between Greece and Sydney, Maria Papadopoulos is a trilingual architect and interior designer passionate about timeless, human-centred design. As founder of Sici Design, she leads a growing practice creating thoughtful, enduring spaces across Australia and abroad, blending creativity, craftsmanship and cultural depth.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Meagan Velleman

Nearly five years into practice, Meagan Velleman is driven by craft and precision across scales, from houses to towers. Attention to detail shapes meaningful outcomes, and she is passionate about creating architecture that is thoughtful, resolved and purposeful, combining curiosity with rigour at every stage of the design process.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Nicholas Gilbert

Nicholas Gilbert is an interior designer based in Noosa. He runs his studio creating residential and commercial spaces that feel refined yet lived-in. Travel, culture and craftsmanship inspire his work, and he loves blending elegance with comfort to design interiors that reflect their occupants or offer a sense of escapism.

Shortlist

Nick Carfora

Nick Carfora believes that narrative is the pulse that brings every successful project to life. He is drawn to design that sparks feeling and invites discovery. Influenced by his heritage, he looks to celebrate craft and seek honest and innovative solutions while fostering community, knowledge sharing, and connecting people and ideas.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Olivia McDonald

Inspired by creativity and connection, Olivia McDonald views design as an experience rather than just an outcome. With eight years in the industry, spanning a variety of sectors, she’s built a love for form, detail and materiality. For her, design reflects personality and is a chance to leave a lasting impression.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Ric Maddren

Originally from WA, Ric Maddren is a project architect at Ha° Architecture in Melbourne, working across residential, commercial and mixed-use projects. He cares about design that genuinely works for people – practical, efficient and considered. He’s also an advocate for design, balancing architectural practice with community involvement and other personal creative pursuits.

Shortlist

Roger Miranda Navarro

Roger Miranda Navarro is an architectural graduate at Hayball Architects and casual academic at UTS advocating for Connecting/Designing with Country, and decolonising practices within architecture. Informed by his Indigenous ancestry and work experience, his philosophy centres on weaving Country and ecological sustainability in architecture that is ethical, supportive and beautiful.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Sarah Ellis

Intuitive, empathetic and nurturing, Sarah Ellis bring these values to her work as an interior designer at Woods Bagot, crafting thoughtful and meaningful spaces. Approaching five years in the industry, she finds balance and inspiration through nature, time with loved ones and the quiet joy of reading.

Shortlist

Sarah Petherick

Sarah Petherick is a 28-year-old South Australian currently working in a hybrid role at Design by WBL in Adelaide, as a graduate of both architecture and interior design. With a passion for smaller scale design in both central and regional contexts, she enjoys the creative process of residential design.

Shortlist

Senesios Frangos

Senesios Frangos is an architectural practitioner and educator from Melbourne, Australia with nine years of experience in the industry, practising both locally and internationally. His experience is predominantly working as a part of design-led, prestigious practices of varying scales where he often leads design teams in early phases of projects.

Shortlist

Senlina Mayer

Senlina Mayer is a graduate of architecture with a practice grounded in empathy, sustainability and care for natural systems. With experience across public, cultural and heritage projects in Australia and Denmark, she views architecture as stewardship – a dialogue between people, place and material that celebrates memory, resilience and community

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Shira Baker

Shira Baker is an emerging architect whose practice foregrounds subtlety and sensibility. She approaches the contemporary as a non-hierarchical field shaped by the overlooked and the everyday. Her work pursues quiet intelligence over spectacle, seeking to distil ordinary peculiarities into spatial experiences that are at once thoughtful, socially attuned and transformative.

Shortlist

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 a Associate Degree in Interior Decoration and Design from RMIT, where he received the Janne Faulkner Prize for Design Excellence.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Stefenie Lai

Stefenie Lai is a PhD candidate and urban planner at NSW DPHI. Her work sits at the intersection of spatial justice, Indigenous reconciliation and decolonial urban design, investigating how architecture can achieve embodied justice through culturally responsive design and intervention. This inquiry is grounded in my industry experience with Indigenous-led design consultancies.

Shortlist

Yuchen Gao

Yuchen Gao is a spatial practitioner who treats design as a stage for culture, ritual and play. Working in architecture, but equally at home in the worlds of fashion and art, their work moves between disciplines, always searching for moments of spatial mischief that reframe the everyday.

Shortlist

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.

Shortlist

Zoe Kudeborg

Zoe Kudeborg is currently a senior architect at Hassell in Brisbane, and has worked with the practice since 2017. For six years she has predominantly worked on major transport projects across South East Queensland, with a focus on accessibility and design that is inspired by its context.

Type to search

30UNDER30 2025 Shortlist

Australian Design Review's 30UNDER30 Shortlist

Alana Beveridge

Angela Liang

Anny Benjamin

Aris Ioannou-Marsh

Ava Minji Kim

Awkar Ruel

Ben Hovav

Blake Hillebrand

Brodie Robertson

Candyce Huntsman

Carmelo Nastasi

Caroline Thomas

Claudia Lau

Dasha Tolotchkov

David Carter

Dinel Meyepa

Eloise Leopold

Francesc Baena Moreno

Gabrielle Veringa

Hailey Zhang

Hung Hin Chan

Isabella White

Isobel Moy

Jack Crowe

Jade Layton

Jayesh Soul

Jeffrey Liu

Jessica Broad

Joss Knight

Kasia Wsol

Ketsa Jerome Leben

Kiara Carroll

Lachlan Kirkland

Levi Birks

Liam Low Yong Ging

Alana Beveridge

Angela Liang

Anny Benjamin

Aris Ioannou-Marsh

Ava Minji Kim

Awkar Ruel

Ben Hovav

Blake Hillebrand

Brodie Robertson

Candyce Huntsman

Carmelo Nastasi

Caroline Thomas

Claudia Lau

Dasha Tolotchkov

David Carter

Dinel Meyepa

Eloise Leopold

Francesc Baena Moreno

Gabrielle Veringa

Hailey Zhang

Hung Hin Chan

Isabella White

Isobel Moy

Jack Crowe

Jade Layton

Jayesh Soul

Jeffrey Liu

Jessica Broad

Joss Knight

Kasia Wsol

Ketsa Jerome Leben

Kiara Carroll

Lachlan Kirkland

Levi Birks

Liam Low Yong Ging

Louy Bell

Maeve Mullane

Maggie Craig

Maria Papadopoulos

Marlo Lyda

Meagan Velleman

Milica Božić