Across her interiors, furniture and object design practice, Alana Beveridge is a strong proponent of care and craftsmanship, particularly in the face of technological advancement.

Below, we speak to the member of Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 for 2025/2026 about the challenges facing the industry and how she keeps her creativity alive.

Australian Design Review: How would you describe your work?

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

Most recently, I’ve been developing an emerging collection that has deepened my hands-on practice and champions local artisans. I aim to explore their considered ways of making (sometimes refined over decades) across blown glass, lost-wax bronze casting and woodworking, hoping to energise Australia’s design culture through locally-focused, materially conscious design.

Why did you enter the 30UNDER30 program?

I loved the idea of the mentorship opportunities within the program that will expand both my creative experimentation and industry impact, particularly in connecting design with community and alternative methods of production. 

I’m interested in participating in conversations around collaborative processes between designers and artisans, as well as mentorship in scaling bespoke practices, as I feel that would help me deepen my craft while contributing insights wherever possible from my multidisciplinary experience. 

I am particularly drawn to workshops and panels exploring sustainable and circular design, the future of local manufacturing and material innovation.

What do you think are the most pressing challenges for designers coming up to 2030?

I think a challenge that may also double as a tool we can harness will be with the way in which the world is becoming increasingly more focused on artificial intelligence and making creative fields more ‘productive’. Through those means, I feel that there will be – and already is – this big shift back into valuing small-scale, people-facing design and locally made craftsmanship, where you can feel the care and expertise that’s gone into it on a very human level. 

I hope as we are increasingly bombarded with the repetitious, the mechanical, convenient and easy, that we are more drawn to the unique, imperfect design and art that has been meticulously crafted by hand with great difficulty and care over countless hours.

What do you do to kickstart your creativity when you’re in a rut?

Working in a field of seemingly endless Pinterest-ing and Instagram scrolling – as much as there is some great inspiration to find there – I really love to turn to books, art books and design coffee table books. My mother is an artist and has an impressive collection of art books that I know will never fail to inspire me on an off day. 

A trip to the art gallery (my favourite is S.H. Ervin at the Observatory Hill in Sydney) also never fails. It’s incredible how much meaning and inspiration spark you can find observing something completely different from your own medium.

What guiding values drive you and what kind of impact do you hope to make through your work?

I hope my practice brings a bit of intrigue and lightheartedness to design while still maintaining the seriousness that comes with valuing quality, longevity and locally made – often handmade – design. That’s something that I always come back to centring my work on – whether it’s designing pieces and then making them myself (like with ceramics, glass blowing and fibreglass) or developing relationships with local craftspeople. Even down to the relationships I have with my clients in interior design, my focus is really on bringing design down to a really intimate, thoughtful and deeply considered scale.

Photography: Supplied by Alana Beveridge.

Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 is brought to you by major sponsor Neolith, alongside partners Designer Rugs, Laufen, Krost, Miele, Signature Appliances powered by Miele and Tongue & Groove.

Australian Design Review is also grateful to our 30UNDER30 practice partners AJC Architects, BVN, Cera Stribley, COX Architecture, Genton, GroupGSA, HDR, Richards Stanisich, RIZEN Atelier, Rob Mills Architects, Rothelowman, SJB and Design by WBL for helping us foster the future of Australian design.

Learn more about ADR’s 30UNDER30 here.