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Paul McGillick
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Gijs Nooteboom shares 6 truths of progressive workplace
We still speak about the workplace revolution, but revolutions don’t normally last 20 years. Is it all over and we’re simply moving the furniture around?
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Indesign Luminary: Geoff Warn
For Geoff Warn, being W.A. Government Architect is not a culmination of, but just another chapter in a rich career.
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The Post-Virus Workplace
Has the Covid-19 shutdown changed the way we work forever? Paul McGillick takes a sceptical overview of current workplace futurology.
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Ross Gardam: Emotion by Design
He is a mid-career designer, but retains the fresh vision of someone just starting out. Meet Ross Gardam, one of the great success stories of Australian design.
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An Arranged Marriage
Thrown together by circumstance, Kirsten Stanisich and Jonathan Richards formed a professional partnership that has seen them grow, flourish and forge a brand of their own.
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Indesign Luminary: Diane Jones
Diane Jones has been executive director at PTW since 2014. A natural leader of people, she considers herself to be “just one of the team”, bringing to the role a coherent philosophy and sense of conviction built over many years of practice.
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Indesign Luminary Mark Landini
Mark Landini is not a man to mince his words. His relationship with retail design is one of practicality and inventiveness. Because there’s no room for ‘experiential’ and ‘fashionable’ design when you’re faced with fickle consumers and a booming e-retail economy.
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Rising expectations: The rise of vertical schools
Vertical education. It’s a fact, but is it also a fad? Paul McGillick looks at how education is reaching for the skies.
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The game changer: Rachel Neeson
Overcoming personal tragedy enabled Rachel Neeson to establish herself as one of Australia’s leading architects. We reflect on Neeson’s career having recently been announced as a 2019 INDE Luminary.
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The late bloomer: Jon Goulder
Jon Goulder has been a mainstay of the Australian design industry for 20 years, but it’s only now that he considers his career to be taking off. We look at the 2019 INDE Luminary nominees career trajectory.
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Learning to share: Introducing the new generation of co-working
Co-working seems to be the golden arrow for enterprises looking to improve productivity and collaboration. What makes it an effective and successful working model?
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Introducing <em>Indesign</em> #76 – The Workplace Evolution issue
The ‘workplace revolution’ began in the late 20th century, except that from today’s perspective it looks more like an evolution than revolution. As the latest issue of Indesign magazine finds its way into your hot little hands, Paul McGillick shares highlights and reflections.
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Indesign Luminary: Jon Johannsen
Jon Johannsen’s career has been about buildings and their context. He is led by the conviction that liveable communities are diverse in their demographic engagement. This is his story.
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Indesign Luminary: Michael Banney, m3architecture
Michael Banney likes to talk and write architecture into existence. It’s an “inclusive habit” that allows him to step outside the architect’s mindset, but still inhabit the role. He talks to Indesign about what makes m3architecture so idiosyncratic.
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Clubs, pubs and the burbs: Cayas Architects’ on community-building hospitality
It may surprise some hipster urbanites, but hospitality design is helping re-shape our suburbs. Paul McGillick meets up with Con Cayas and Jeremy Ward at their Kelvin Grove studio in Brisbane.