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Get to know the prominent and emerging contemporary architecture people and interior design people behind today’s most revered projects and practices.

February 19, 2025

Designing for Innovation: Joseph Hampton on the Award-Winning Waimarier Science Facility at Lincoln University

Joseph Hampton from Warren and Mahoney discusses the challenges and triumphs of designing the award-winning Waimarier Science Facility – a groundbreaking educational space promoting sustainability and innovation.

February 14, 2025

Stories Indesign: New York-based CIVILIAN in latest episode

CIVILIAN is a design studio based in New York, founded and led by the pair who joined us for a live interview when they were in Australia in 2024.

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The uncharted plate: Ivan Brehm’s pursuit of crossroads cooking with Gaggenau and human connection.

In this candid interview, the culinary mastermind behind Singapore’s Nouri and Appetite talks about food as an act of human connection that transcends borders and accolades, the crucial role of technology in preserving its unifying power, and finding a kindred spirit in Gaggenau’s reverence for tradition and relentless pursuit of innovation.

February 14, 2025

“From the spoon to the skyscraper”

With no expense spared, the collaboration between Hannes Peer and Minotti went through a series of iterations to emulate the imperfect perfectionism embodied within the respective oeuvres.

February 12, 2025

Speakingout! With Elizabeth Carpenter: Redefining Excellence in Architecture

In the latest installment of SpeakingOut!, Jan Henderson, Program Director of the INDE.Awards, sits down with Elizabeth Carpenter, Managing Principal of fjcstudio. Representing the “Best of the Best” category, proudly supported by Zenith Interiors, this episode dives into the creative journey behind the award-winning Darlington Public School project. A Passion for Architecture Jan Henderson: Elizabeth, […]

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Generative AI and its implications on design: Man x Machine x Material

The Man x Machine x Material collaboration by Jarrod Lim and The American Hardwood Export Council explores how generative AI can enhance design processes while also revealing the areas where human intuition remains irreplaceable.

February 11, 2025

2024 Hall of Famers announced by DIA

The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) has announced the induction of eight distinguished designers into its Hall of Fame for 2024.

February 6, 2025

Interiors to flowers: The Photographers with Louise Roche

Capturing the finished project through the lens and the expert eye of the photographer is integral to architecture and design. So, how does Louise Roche go about her business?

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Ben McCarthy and gohome: The collaboration behind a “tool for life” and a new showroom opening

With gohome’s Sydney showroom opening set to light up Saturday Indesign, we find out more about the furniture brand’s collaboration with Ben McCarthy.

February 4, 2025

Stories Indesign with digital creator, Paul Milinski

In this episode of Stories Indesign podcast, Timothy Alouani-Roby speaks to the Melbourne-based creative who is working with some of the world's top luxury brands.

February 3, 2025

SANAA in Sydney: Interview with Art Gallery of NSW director

Michael Brand talks us through a new book on the architecture of Naala Badu, the culmination of Sydney Modern Project.

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“It’s a bit like writing a little song or a Japanese haiku:” Patrick Jouin on design, collaboration, and a partnership for the ages

Pedrali and Patrick Jouin celebrate more than ten years of collaboration with new evolutions to their iconic designs

January 31, 2025

A fine collaboration

They’re gorgeous, created through a cross-cultural design collaboration, feature sensational timber and have optimum functionality... don’t you just want to have them?

January 23, 2025

What does designing with Country mean today?

Yerrabingin CEO Christian Hampson on how the concept is maturing and the overlap with fundamental design principles, as well as some pitfalls to avoid.

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Poetry, essentialism and freedom in kitchen design: Sven Baacke introduces Gaggenau’s new cooktop

Gaggenau’s new Essential Induction is set to transform how we design and use our kitchens. Here, the brand’s Head of Design lets us in on the creative process behind the groundbreaking innovation – and reaching the poetic intersection of form and function.

January 15, 2025

High achievers: The PhD route for interior design

Investigating the process of a Reflective Industry Practice Model PhD Architecture and Design at RMIT University, we discover just what is involved and how the course influences those who participate.

January 6, 2025

“Creative, approachable and ambitious”: Q&A with RIZEN Atelier

Bradhly Le and his team talk us through the foundations of the newly launched practice, RIZEN Atelier.

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Distilling modernity: In conversation with Giulio Cappellini

In an exclusive interview with one of the most iconic figures on the international design scene, Cappellini’s charismatic art director talks about design that transcends time and geographical context, embraces diversity – and captures the elusive essence of our times.