Written by
Leanne Amodeo
Events
The ottoman, the lounger and the table: 3 outdoor designs from grazia&co
Outdoor entertaining and lounging spaces are king, with vistas into gardens calling for a considered and design-led approach. We speak with grazia&co’s Grazia Materia.
Events
“Sensual interplay of suppleness and strength”: Kelly Wearstler’s NUDO collection
NUDO is the latest furniture and accessories collection from Kelly Wearstler and it’s everything we’ve come to expect and love from the California-based designer.
People
Simone LeAmon’s and Ewan McEoin’s big ambitions for Australian design
As NGV’s top design curators, Simone LeAmon and Ewan McEoin have big dreams for the design sector. And they’re coming at it with energy and ambition.
Ideas
Scott Alterator on designing learning environments
Architects are re-evaluating how to design learning environments for the future. Melbourne-based education consultant and qualitative researcher Scott Alterator works with design teams to create highly functional education settings through a collaborative consultation process, resulting in student-centric environments that bring the best out of all end users.
Magazine
The life and career of Luminary Meryl Hare
In an era of fleeting enticements, Indesign Luminary and INDE.Awards 2022 Luminary recipient, Meryl Hare, engenders empathy, elegance and grace through her luxurious and cohesive designs.
Ideas
2022’s 10 most teachable moments and inspiring quotes
Whether inspirational or thought-provoking, we bring you the 10 most quotable moments of 2022. They’re all takeaways that resonated with us for their insightfulness, authenticity and mindfulness. Prepare to be inspired.
Events
5 Australian design studios to watch: The Indesign round-up
Leanne Amodeo rounds up our top 5 emerging designers and design studios – each producing projects that prove Australia really does have some of the best design talent in the world.
People
Candice Ng on the secrets to her success
In conversation with Leanne Amodeo, Plus Architecture’s newest principal, Candice Ng, discusses the varying aspects of her work, role and juggling it all with motherhood.
Products
Why we love Helen Kontouris: 5 designs for all time
Leanne Amodeo rounds up the Indesign team’s favourite Helen Kontouris designs.
People
Role model for the next generation: Indesign Luminary Nathan Yong
One of the region’s early South East Asian designers to break into the international design scene, Nathan Yong has used the past 30 years to cement a path for his future peers.
People
Celebrating Indesign Luminary, Nonda Katsalidis
Ask Nonda Katsalidis what his favourite Fender Katsalidis project is, and he’ll succinctly say it’s always the next building. Leanne Amodeo interviews this maker of architectural history.
Ideas
Surface revolution: how the right material choices can transform hotels and shops
Hotel and retail environments lean hard on their surface selections in particular to bring design vision to life.
People
Indesign luminaries: looking back at the Lyon legacy
Architecture is more than just a practise, it’s a vocation, for brothers and business partners, Corbett and Carey Lyon.
Ideas
What’s workplace design got to do with office dynamics?
Hybrid working puts the pressure back on the individual to expertly communicate and perform within a team of dispersed personnel. How can workplace design help to enhance office dynamics?
Ideas
Engaging in sustainability in hotel design
Capable of encouraging deep engagement between people and place, sustainable design is an opportunity that ought to be urgently harnessed in hotel design. Leading the way, some architects and designers are doing just that.
Ideas
Make way for the alphas: Early learning spaces for digital natives
The ‘alpha generation’ has never known a world without smartphones. How do we design early learning environments to nurture these digital natives on their own, new-age terms?
Ideas
Knowledge capital: Workplaces for creativity and thinking
Idea generation, creativity and mental stamina: this is the currency of the modern-day knowledge worker. What sort of environment is required for the people who innovate through ideation?
People
Emerging designer Jake Rollins: In conversation
JamFactory’s exhibition, Materials Matter: A Bauhaus Legacy, celebrates and highlights the influence of the Bauhaus on the Adelaide design institution and South Australia’s design industry in general. Leanne Amodeo talks to emerging designer Jake Rollins, whose work in the group exhibition expresses a ‘building block’ style of construction that addresses issues of sustainability and regeneration.
Ideas
Object-based learning and exhibition design with Jake Barton, Local Projects
Principal and founder of New York-based Local Projects speaks to Leanne Amodeo about creating memorable interactive exhibition experiences.
People
Studio -gram pushes design boundaries
There is a design studio in Adelaide that is quickly reshaping the entire design landscape of the city – meet studio -gram. And find out why the practice is one of our Prodigy nominees for the 2019 INDE.Awards