In a field where creativity often starts in solitude, it’s easy to forget how fundamentally collaborative design truly is. But as a recent panel at Tongue & Groove’s Brisbane showroom revealed, no successful design career is built alone. Tongue & Groove’s Brisbane showroom on 3 July 2025. Design can be a solitary pursuit. Before we […]
Crafted Hardwoods challenges the obsession with select-grade timber, inviting designers to embrace character and variation. In the pursuit of perfection, something vital gets lost. For too long, the Australian design industry has given privilege to the pristine. Clean grains, uniform tones and the absence of knots have become synonymous with quality. But timber does not […]
What does it mean to have a sense of place? Where does it come from? Is it innate and immutable – the result of a perfect collision between environmental, constructed and human elements? Or can it be generated from ‘nothing’, shaped deliberately and consciously? On a recent visit to Melbourne property development group Salta’s first […]
Taylah Cheeseman is one of Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. In this Q&A, we learn how the Sydney-based interior designer from LikeMinds Studio overcomes creative roadblocks and why she thinks beautifully designed spaces can foster emotional connections. Portrait of Taylah Cheeseman by Jennifer Stroh. Australian Design Review: How would you […]
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