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Siena Crestani is one of Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. In this Q&A, we learn more about her teenage inclinations to design using Minecraft, her innovative collaborations focused on sustainability and the rewarding challenges involved in teaching emerging designers. Teaching first-year Interior Architecture at University of Technology Sydney has been […]
Running from 6 to 13 July, NAIDOC Week 2025 marks 50 years of honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture and resilience. This year’s theme, ‘The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy’, celebrates not only the achievements of the past but the bright future ahead, highlighting the strength of young leaders, the vision of communities and […]
Ashleigh Sullivan is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Here, we learn more about her career-defining experiences in Amsterdam, her love of texture, pattern and colour, and her appreciation of circular design principles. Australian Design Review: Do you remember your first encounter with design? Ashleigh Sullivan: In my first year […]
Annie MacLean is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, we get to know MacLean, who is the proud founder of her own practice and vows to increase the accessibility of interior design no matter the size or scale of the project. Australian Design Review: Do you remember your first […]
Kaila Cicchini is one of Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. In this Q&A, we get to know more about the Perth-based creative coach as she talks impostor syndrome, finding purpose through mentorship and the unexpected joy of public speaking. Kaila Cicchini. Photo: Flossy Photo Australian Design Review: How would you […]
HDR strengthens its specialist capability with a new appointment, Carr unveils two new leaders across two studios, and Matthews Architects elevates internally in this month’s round up of industry appointments. HDR bolsters defence and aviation capability with new appointment HDR associate principal of defence and aviation Kate Macdonald. Photo: supplied HDR has appointed Kate Macdonald […]
Matiya Marovich, founder and director of Adelaide-based architecture firm Sans-Arc, will be judging the 2025 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), alongside fellow judges Andrew Glover, Conrad Lowry, Jade Whittaker, Melissa Leung and jury chair Paul Hecker. Australia’s longest-running independent architecture and interior design award, IDEA, selects its annual winners as judged by a selection of […]
Australian-born speculative architect and filmmaker Liam Young will live-narrate an extended version of his visionary short film Planet City as part of the Vivid Ideas program and Sydney Film Festival. When it debuted at the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2021 Triennial, Liam Young’s original 15-minute, animated short film presented a hyper-dense, self-sustaining metropolis where the […]
German-born, Melbourne-based lighting designer Volker Haug has won the 2025 Melbourne Design Week Award. The award is an annual prize celebrating an exceptional contribution to Australia’s premier design event, and offers significant recognition of creative excellence within the local and international design community. The award recognises Haug and his Brunswick-based studio’s outstanding contribution to the […]
Ilianna Ginnis is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Here, we learn more about the interior architectural designer, access consultant, neuro-inclusive design specialist at Architecture & Access, newly minted doctor and research officer at the Design Health Collab at Monash University. This talented multi-hyphenate shares her dedication to building an […]
Yerrabingin names a new managing director, GroupGSA appoints its first associate principals and Charles Darwin University unveils the professor who will train the next generation of Northern Territory architects in this month’s round up of industry appointments. Yerrabingin appoints new managing director Left to right: Yerrabingin CEO Christian Hampson and newly appointed managing director Chris […]
Billie Murphy is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, the Sydney-based senior interior designer from Gray Puksand talks about her penchant for designing joyful and quirky spaces, her experience working on a primary school project in Vienna and her love of scuba diving. Australian Design Review: How would you […]
The inaugural Circle Session, hosted by The Advisory Studio as part of Australian Design Review (ADR)’s 30UNDER30 program, brought together leaders from the program’s practice partner firms for a candid and forward-focused discussion. Held in a confidential, collegial format, Circle Sessions are designed as a new kind of forum where senior voices from across architecture […]
At the wheel of Swedish automotive manufacturer Polestar’s colour and materials team, Maria Uggla is redefining what car interiors can be – ethical, sustainable and anything but conventional. Design instinct runs deep for Uggla. Her visceral reactions to art and design act as her own inbuilt compass guiding her to true north. “I tell my […]
Vincent Tsang is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Here, we get to know the industrial designer at Vert Design, who talks about his creative influences, Jony Ive and Ivy Ross, and his career highlight working with Zero Co. Australian Design Review: Do you remember your first encounter with design? […]
HDR appoints a new managing principal, Yerrabingin continues along a growth trajectory, Jasmax announces team and studio expansions and more in this month’s round up of industry appointments. HDR appoints a new managing principal HDR managing principal of architecture Huai Lim. Photo: HDR HDR has hired Huai Lim to take over from Cate Cowlishaw as […]
Mumbai-born, London-based designer Nipa Doshi has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission, a major series inviting globally renowned designers to create groundbreaking new work for the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection. As one-half of London furniture, textiles and product design studio Doshi Levien, Doshi is known […]
Samantha Wardle is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, we get to know the Sydney-based interior designer and co-founder of Some Studio, including her roots in Hong Kong, studies in Italy and her passion for designing low-toxic spaces. Australian Design Review: What was your first encounter with design? Samantha […]
After a rigorous judging process, Australian Design Review (ADR)’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers cohort for 2024/2025 is revealed below. In 2024, ADR launched its third annual 30UNDER30 stream, turning its attention to emerging interior and product designers for a second time since the recognition and mentorship program first launched in 2022. 30UNDER30 by numbers […]
A report from Champions of Change Coalition sets a new standard in architecture, calling for equity by design from the outset. The new resource from the Champions of Change Coalition, Equity by Design, offers a framework to transform the design space by addressing long-standing systemic gaps in design decisions and development processes that disproportionately affect […]
‘Design culture’ puts conversations about design into the daily activities of a studio. In architecture, it’s not just a practice – writes TURNER associate director James Lauman, leader of the firm’s Design Culture Panel – it’s a philosophy that shapes how teams design, collaborate and connect, laying the foundation for effective projects. Below, Lauman gives […]
Klaro Industrial Design, or K.I.D for short, is an emerging product design studio based in Sydney’s Inner West, led by an ambitious creative director who is willing to try, fail and innovate in the workplace fitout sector. Despite only launching in 2019, K.I.D has cultivated a product range that has a distinct and disruptive presence […]
Australian Design Review (ADR) today unveils its third annual 30UNDER30 shortlist, recognising 68 emerging Australian interior designers and product designers from 61 different practices who are creating meaningful change through their projects. ADR’s 30UNDER30 is a recognition and mentorship program that uplifts and connects young talent within Australia’s design community at a pivotal and challenging […]
In this Q&A, Melbourne-based designer Joanne Odisho unpacks her aesthetic, shares secrets to staying creative and reveals her latest projects. Origin story After completing my studies in interior design, I came to realise that I not only enjoyed the workings of a space as a whole, but was fond of the objects within them. Furniture […]
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