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‘Going All In’ to Meet the Climate Crisis
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Queers in Property put on a night of celebration in Sydney with largest event yet
QIP recently held a significant event in Sydney, bringing together LGBTQI+ people across the property and construction industry.
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How To Design And Establish Social And Sustainable Affordable Housing for Communities
The Sustainability Summit panel delves into innovative models such as the Nightingale Housing model and the AssembleFutures concept.
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Our esteemed speakers at this year’s Sustainability Summit sessions
Join us on Nov 9 at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium for the 2023 Sustainability Summit! Renowned architects will share their expertise at the Sustainability Awards.
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Creating Sustainable Outcomes, Wellness, And Performance By Using Industrial Design
This Sustainability Summit session will raise critical questions regarding why a sustainable design approach isn’t more prevalent in the industry.
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How To Use Biophilia To Design Buildings That Generate Their Own Energy
In this upcoming Sustainability Summit session, the panel will zero in on integrating biophilic design principles into contemporary architecture.
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The Rise Of New Multi-Residential Housing Models And How They Are Changing The Way We Live
“The Rise of New Multi-Residential Housing Models and How They Are Changing the Way We Live” will focus on the evolving landscape of multi-residential housing in Australia.
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One architect’s journey from Everest Base Camp to rebuilding education in Nepal
Since the Nepal earthquakes of 2015, architect Neill Johanson of Davenport Campbell has been working to rebuild schools and support communities in Nepal’s remote regions. It’s a pro-bono project that has expanded from emergency efforts to a wider and longer-lasting vision.
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Saturday Indesign is set for Melbourne in 2023
Saturday Indesign returns to Melbourne in 2023, register your interest to exhibit, collaborate or attend today!
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Scroll the highlights! Saturday Indesign’s most memorable moments
For those with major FOMO! Here we relive the highlights of Saturday Indesign and share all the moments you may have missed from that memorable May day in Sydney.
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Introducing your 2022 Saturday Indesign speakers
Catch up with some of our industry’s top talents at this year’s Saturday Indesign speaker series.
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Going green with Saturday Indesign
This year’s Saturday Indesign comes at a crucial point for humanity, where we are being urged to act, and act quickly, to stop the irreversible destruction of our climate. As members of Australia’s design industry, we recognise that we have an important role to play in creating and advocating for change.
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The who’s who: Saturday Indesign’s exhibitor meetup
With a month to go until Saturday Indesign 2022, our famous exhibitor meetup returned for a warm up before the real thing!
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It’s official: the 2020 Sustainability Awards shortlist is here
The 2020 Sustainability Awards shortlist has been announced and this year, there have been quite a few very pleasant surprises.
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Taking back our climate
In the hopes of a regenerative future, voices of passion and activism are leading the way in restoring our landscape to give generations the brighter planet that they deserve. A leader in global sustainability, Interface® is changing the game by overcoming humanity’s biggest challenge of climate change.
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Case in point: Interface’s work with Knight Frank and Real I.S. shows the impact of ReEntry
Consistently seeking out the boldest and most progressive ways to push a sustainable agenda, Interface’s ReEntry project with Knight Frank and Real I.S. goes above and beyond for a climate-smart future.
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Indesign In Focus: Sustainable Design
As designers, we are responsible for building and creating. But how can we design thoughtfully without waste? This weeks’ Indesign In Focus combines a list of sustainably designed products and accessories.
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Wynyard Quarter Innovation Precinct, from Warren and Mahoney
Designed to super-charge co-working and collaboration, Auckland’s Innovation Precinct extends into building number three, a six-storey purpose-built environment.
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Caulfield Library Refurbishment, from John Wardle Architects
What are students’ expectations of academic libraries? This is a question John Wardle Architects tackled when renovating and expanding Monash University’s Caulfield Library.
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Woodside, by Unispace
The same blue-sky thinking that underpins Woodside’s energy exploration, development delivery and supply business set the tone for its new global HQ in Perth, designed by Cox Architects and Unispace.
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Microsoft Technology Centre, by Tom Mark Henry
How to make a global tech giant with a transient workforce feel at home? Find out with Sydney’s new Microsoft Technology Centre.
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Interface leads the industry toward a new way of thinking about sustainability with Carbon Neutral Floors™
With their landmark Mission Zero ® project, sustainable design pioneers Interface pledged to eliminate their negative environmental impact by 2020. Now, they’re targeting carbon emissions with Carbon Neutral Floors™.
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Red Energy Melbourne
Pavilions, hubs, neighbourhoods, precincts and the like are fast becoming a popular staple in the agile workplace diet – but why? In their latest project for Red Energy Melbourne, iconic studio Carr sees the significance of these spaces as allowing users to claw back some personal ownership of their working environment.
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Frankston Primary School Early Learning Centre
Chaulk Studio has broken down the walls of traditional closed-off classrooms by creating interconnected and adaptable learning and play spaces for interaction and exploration.
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A look back: INDE.Awards 2017 winners and themes
Your INDE.Awards Official Shortlist for 2018 is about to be announced. We cast our eyes back to the successful entries of 2017. What new directions will 2018 bring?
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NAB Place
The National Australia Bank’s (NAB) Brisbane Headquarters, NAB Place, designed by global architecture firm, Woods Bagot, sets a new benchmark in collaborative workplace environments.
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St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School
With renewed emphasis on collaboration and active participation, Cox Architecture was engaged to renovate St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School’s existing arts precinct – originally built in the 1960s – into the new Innovation and Design Hub.
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Suncorp
Sometimes the most highly evolved designs are incomplete. When conceptualising the new Suncorp headquarters in Sydney, the interiors team at Geyer worked to the idea of ‘designing to 80%’. The result is a radical take on the oft-used idea of workplace flexibility. While the building caters to the needs of its residents in the present, it comprehensively avoids dictating what these needs will be in the future.
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Mirvac HQ
When builder/developer Mirvac decided half-way through the development process for the EY Centre at 200 George Street, Sydney to move their headquarters into six levels of the building, it was a vote of confidence in their own project.
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Celebrating the new home of Wilkhahn
After 12 years in Alexandria, the design experts at Wilkhahn have celebrated the move to not one but two new homes – a state of the art manufacturing facility in Riverwood, and an all new world class showroom in Surry Hills.
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Karratha Central Healthcare by CODA Studio/Cox Architecture
Designers are working in an exciting health and aged-care climate where the very definitions of the sectors are being questioned, challenged and redefined. Cox Architecture’s (formerly CODA Studios) joyous and uplifting design of Karratha Central Healthcare is a strong example of a multi-dimensional health facility providing medical services and training opportunities that contribute to the improved health and wellbeing of the regional community.
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Cockburn ARC by DWP
How can a single space simultaneously serve the needs of healthcare, education and community at all levels? In their most recent project for Cockburn ARC, dwp create the ultimate cross-sector blueprint for a hybrid health, fitness, education, community and culture centre for professional, intermediate and beginner users.
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Gilbert + Tobin Barangaroo by Woods Bagot
Design that reflects its local environment is a huge focus for practising architects and designers, and Sydney’s Barangaroo development is a hotbed for this kind of thinking. Gilbert + Tobin’s new Barangaroo workplace, designed by Woods Bagot, draws inspiration from the rich history and landscape of the site, while nestling nicely into Sydney’s new commercial identity.
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Russell McVeagh Auckland by Warren and Mahoney
The legal sector has traditionally adhered to a strict workplace hierarchy, with senior staff allotted a private office and entry-level employees assigned to the ‘open-plan’. Designed by Warren and Mahoney, the new head office for New Zealand law firm Russell McVeagh, challenges the antiquated workplace approach with a daring, material-rich agile strategy.
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PwC Melbourne by Futurespace
The old-school ‘client showroom’ is in desperate need of a shake-up – but where to start? Designed by Futurespace, PwC’s new Melbourne headquaters is purpose-built to break down traditional barriers between staff and clients. The results are extraordinary.
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SID17: What Went Down At The Venue?
Global design fairs usually occupy dull exhibition halls, where besuited visitors trudge down rows of same-same stands. SO. BORING. This is why every year at Sydney Indesign, we turned things up a notch at The Venue: one location with one enormous lineup! And it was truly stellar…
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2017 Was The Year Of The INDE.Awards : Share Our Journey
This year, the inaugural INDE.Awards celebrated the story of design in our region.
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BEON Energy Solutions (Powercor CitiPower) by Siren Design
What are the principles and strategies behind designing for incidental staff collisions and chance encounters? Siren Design maps out its creative thinking and approach for Powercor CitiPower’s BEON Energy Solutions, Melbourne: a purpose built workplace which encourages its staff to ‘interact’ and ‘collide’.
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Part #3: The After Party At The INDE.Awards Gala Night
The official INDE.Awards Gala night was capped off by an epic after party – one that hosted over 500 of the Asia Pacific’s design community, truly representing the unity of our industry across all countries across South-East Asia.
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Part #2: The Official Ceremony At The INDE.Awards Gala Night
The inaugural INDE.Awards ceremony was a wonderful celebration of our regions greatest design talent, only possible through the support of the official jury, entrants and event partners and sponsors.
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Is It Time We Redefined ‘Sustainability’?
When we talk about sustainability there’s a very compelling argument to take a more holistic approach. Just look at Interface and the huge impact it has had not only on the environment but the economies of small communities throughout the developing world.
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The INDE.Awards Influencer: What Makes Them So Influential?
Say Hello to your Shortlist for The Influencer 2017 – a collection of our industry’s most exceptional people, products, projects and ideas. But what is it exactly that makes them so influential?
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How Can Nature Influence Human Nature?
The rise of biophilic design is seeing A+D reconnect the ‘designed world’ with the ‘non-designed world’.
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Western Sydney University, by Woods Bagot
Integrated technology might be commonplace in the workplace, but in education spaces it’s still a fairly new phenomenon. At Western Sydney University, Woods Bagot’s vertical campus design raises the bar in more ways than one.
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480 Queen Street Brisbane, featuring BHP Billiton by BVN
What happens when private business goes public – in a commercial design sense, that is? Brisbane’s most recent commercial addition, 480 Queen Street by BVN, is designed to create a sense of community inclusiveness. It’s a new-think approach to the traditional public-versus-private model.
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KPMG Headquarters Barangaroo by Davenport Campbell
Workplaces are no longer just singular production hubs, but company showrooms used by and with clients. Designed by Davenport Campbell, the new KPMG headquaters in Barangaroo transforms the brave new world of agile working into a workplace to call home.
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Garden State Hotel by Techne Architecture + Interior Design
What does it take to redesign a tried and tested model? For centuries, the iconic Australian pub has shaped our country’s communities, quenching the thirsts of millions of Aussies and offering social solace at the end of a long, hard day. This side of the new century, our shifting lifestyles, played out in the concrete jungles of our capital cities, has bred a new brand of beer o’clock. But just how ‘refreshing’ is it?
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Harry The Hirer, Melbourne, by SJB Interiors
How are designers problem solving the often opposing needs of the one-size-fits-all space? Harry The Hirer is a solid success story in puzzling together a series of complex needs.
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Jemena Melbourne by Woods Bagot
In an era where technology and the ‘digerati’ rules all, we feel a strong need to make close online connections with the world at large. But how does this sense of connectivity and community translate to the physical workplace, and by extension, its design? In Jemena’s new Melbourne headquaters, seven floors and 800+ people have offered up a juicy challenge in exploring how design might create a sense of communal familiarity in a large-scale environment.
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Invisible Citizens: Designing for the Disabled
Have we failed to provide equal access and equal opportunity for the disabled community? Where can A+D improve?
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It’s Official: Announcing The INDE.Awards 2017 Shortlist
Over 400 projects, people, products and ideas were submitted for the 2017 INDE.Awards, demonstrating the strength and prowess of architects and designers across the Asia Pacific. Want to see who made history?
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Why Design Needs A Narrative: The Power of Storytelling
The power of storytelling is integral to all creative pursuits and never, in our identity crisis post-digital age, has the need for storytelling been more central to the world of A+D. But how exactly can the concept of the design narrative be used effectively, and why is it so important?
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Dance For Life 2017 Went Off!
After a brief hiatus from the spotlight, Dance For Life returned to Sydney for an epic designer showdown!
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A Failure to Lead: How the BCA’s Environmental Responsibilities are Falling to Other Groups
The Building Code of Australia is beginning to show that standards of best practice in sustainability across the country are below par.
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Cisco Systems Office by Futurespace and SCA Design
Futurespace and SCA Design help Cisco Systems get agile
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Designers, it’s Time to Dance!
Dance for Life, the architect dance contest, has returned to once again raise money to support teens and youths suffering from depression.
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The Art of Transformation
Interface’s inspired installation The Art of Transformation was a highlight at Melbourne Indesign this year – buoyed around the idea of the art of city transformation, and Interface’s ethos, that from something negative can come something positive.
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Design Take Over: Collingwood
The hottest style child to hit the Melbourne street scene is Collingwood. So what happened when MID took over?
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What we Learned at Melbourne Indesign
This year at Melbourne Indesign we revisited our seminar series WorkLife – sponsored by Scandinavian Business Seating and Herman Miller. Here’s what we learned.
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The Wrap: What Went Down at Melbourne Indesign?
After a jam-packed few days of design excitement, we look back on the weekend that was Melbourne Indesign.
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Last Call to Join the Design Conversation
Spaces are getting snapped up fast for Melbourne Indesign 2016’s WorkLife Seminar Series. Reserve yourself a space now to see what the future of A+D is going to look like.
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#NegativeToPositive: The Interface Mission
Interface is actively making a difference – and here’s why the world of design should pay attention.
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Can flooring bring the outside in?
Senior Architect, Allison Hooper and Interior Designer Amanda Meiklejohn from William Ross Architects, explore how the Interface Human Nature Collection was central to bringing their “outside, in” concept to life with their recent project, The Stonnington Civic Precinct.
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Cox Architecture Creates a Mindful Space for Interface
Interface collaborated with a team of interior designers from Cox Architecture to create an installation that would explore the concept of mindfulness and how it relates to design.
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The future for public space
Perth is experiencing its biggest shift in attitude to design and public space to date, with a number of projects set to redefine the city.
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In Profile: Carrie Arnold
Carrie Arnold recently relocated from London to take up the helm as Business Director of Experience Design at Imagination. We chat to Carrie about her approach to enhancing environments through experience design and her thoughts on the intersection of technology, people and urban spaces.
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INDESIGN MAGAZINE #63 DISSECTIONS DIRECTORY
A full directory of the contact information for every company referred to in the project dissections of Indesign Magazine #63.
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Wear the world on your wrist
It’s being touted as the ‘wearable for the world’ –Worldbeing – a wearable and app designed by Benjamin Hubert of Layer may just change our relationship with nature. Alice Blackwood reports.
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2015’s Future Green Leader announced by the Green Building Council of Australia
Lisa Hinde has been named the 2015 Future Green Leader by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA).
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Worklife proves the future of the workplace is strong
Ideas, knowledge-sharing and debate was a large focus of Sydney Indesign 2015. Indesign’s Worklife, LiveLife and DQ Roundtable talks brought together industry thought leaders to exchange new ideas, share opinions, talk about important issues in the design community and share their knowledge and experience. Many of our talks sold out, revealing that our community has a big thirst for knowledge and a vested interested in actively participating in the conversation.
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Indesign magazine #62 dissections directory
A full directory of the contact information for every company referred to in the project dissections of Indesign Magazine #62.
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Show and Tell Design Experience
Interface weaves a multi-sensory design experience for guests at its Surry Hills showroom for Sydney Indesign 2015.
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Interface Weaves a multi-sensory design experience
Experiencing wellbeing through design was explored as part of Sydney Indesign, where Interface collaborated with 6 local designers creating spaces that reflect the different ways we live , work and play. Inviting visitors to choice between two staircases and journey to either quite contemplative refuge or vibrant collaborative prospect ‘ thus sending you on a path of exploration to the showroom concept spaces.
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Surry Hills & Darlinghurst – The original design firestarters
From billowing smoke-filled stacks of replica furniture to glamourous showrooms abuzz with activity, Surry Hills and Darlinghurst set the bar high for a celebration of design at Sydney Indesign 2015. Sophie Davies reports.
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Commercial Spaces That Think Beautifully
The team at Geyer Melbourne design for people, not spaces. In their recent completion of the 150 Collins Street project for Westpac Mellbourne HQ, designer Iva Durakovic reveals how they champion beautiful thinking, and why Interface was the perfect solution.
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DQ #58 BEHIND THE SCENES WITH INTERFACE
“Emotions drive people. And people drive change. This is the basis of Beautiful Thinking.” – Chip J DeGrace, Executive Creative Director, Interface
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Sydney’s top design precincts are about to break out the design moves
The Sydney design scene is starting to simmer, with 5 top design precincts opening their doors to stage a no-holds-barred celebration on design.
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Get your tickets for WorkLife today!
Join us for 9 fabulous seminars, as we debate the big issues affecting workplace design and contemporary workplace culture.
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WORKLIFE TICKETS NOW ON SALE!
Tickets for the Worklife Discussion Series, part of Sydney Indesign 2015, are now on sale!
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INDESIGN MAGAZINE #61 DISSECTIONS DIRECTORY
A full directory of the contact information for every company referred to in the project dissections of Indesign Magazine #61.
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The Traditions of Textile Through Flooring.
In the case of the Happo-en Garden project in Tokyo, Interface’s Urban Retreat Collection played a major role in reflecting the traditions of Japanese Nishijin culture.
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Can Flooring be Interactive?
With a brief to introduce the most innovative and interactive features ever before seen in Korea, the Lotte World Mall development by Benoy Architecture, Planning, Interiors and Graphics in collaboration with Interface, have crafted the world’s first interactive flooring.
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INDESIGN MAGAZINE #60 DISSECTIONS DIRECTORY
A full directory of the contact information for every company referred to in the project dissections of Indesign Magazine #60.
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What does flooring have to do with ABW??
A collaboration between designer Karen Choi and Interface for the CIP commercial space, reveals the answer
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The Project 2015 theme revealed
We all have a special way of doing things. The way we create and design, the way we do business, the way we think, communicate and share. In 2015 The Project calls on you to explore the concept of RITUAL.
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THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL
In the wake of Tuesday night’s Sydney Indesign industry preview event, one thing is clear: the landscape of Australian design festivals needs to change.
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Nature Inspired Thinking
With billions of years experience designing the most complex, efficient and waste-free systems, it’s no wonder designers are looking to nature for inspiration. In this video, we hear from four leading architects and designers as they discuss how they apply Biomimicry to their designs and how they went from inspiration to deeper learning and ultimately application to their work.
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Fishing Nets Become Carpet Tiles
Interface is renowned for its sustainable approach to making carpet. In this latest initiative, fishing nets are being transformed into carpet tiles.
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ORGATEC 2014
Just weeks ahead of the event, the forecast for ORGATEC 2014 is outstanding! The fair runs from 21-25 October 2014 at the Koelnmesse exhibition grounds.
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SHIFTING THE SHOWROOM EXPERIENCE THROUGH COLLABORATION
The Project is that moment when you enter a showroom and find yourself overwhelmed with surprise, excitement, joy and the urge to Instagram – right away! This year, at Melbourne Indesign we saw exhibitors approach The Project from all angles – the common element among all being collaborative engagement.
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INTERFACE – BACK TO THE FUTURE PARTY
Celebrating their brand new factory opening, Interface hosted a festive occasion with great food, drinks, music and company, thanking their community of clients and colleagues for their continued support.
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Find Your Happy Place… with Interface
Celebrating the release of their Urban Retreat collection Interface are giving you the chance to win a weekend escape
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Pin To Win with Interface
Pin your favourite ’Urban Retreat’ image to your Pinterest account and you could be off to Sydney
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Interface’s Picton, Australia, Facility Rendered Inoperable After Fire
Rob Coombs, President and Chief Executive Officer, Interface Asia Pacific has this morning addressed employees of Interface to assure them of job security and affirmed that wherever possible it’s business as usual after last Friday’s factory fire. Going on to reassure Interface’s clients, Coombs reinforced the company’s commitment and loyalty to the Australian market: “…today […]
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InterfaceFLOR Design Journeys
On Thursday 30 June InterfaceFLOR hosted Meeting Place: recognising the transformative power of stories and the traditional spaces where they meet. As the sun went down over the western desert, the night began. The flooring was set to match the artworks on show – an entire space for story telling.
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VIVID Creative with InterfaceFLOR
Rob Coombs, President InterfaceFLOR Asia Pacific, presents at VIVID Creative Sydney as part of a session entitled “The Power of Zero”.
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InterfaceFLOR London Party
To celebrate their new collection, InterfaceFLOR celebrated in style. On Thursday 7 April their showroom was converted into an intimate and lively London interior where some of Sydney’s best designers and London lovers gathered for drinks.
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Ray Anderson talk, presented by InterfaceFLOR
“InterfaceFLOR are proud to present this exclusive opportunity to hear first-hand from the man named ‘the most visionary figure in American business today’! Ray Anderson will uncover the true rewards that rewriting the rules can bring. MCA Foundation Hall, Level 1, Museum of Contemporary Art West Circular Quay, The Rocks, Sydney NSW 2000 Thursday 4th September 5:30pm arrival for a 6pm start Tickets are $40 and include a complimentary drink on arrival To register visit www.nextrevolution.com.au
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InterfaceFLOR
Global carpet tile producer InterfaceFLOR makes great strides on its journey to Mission Zero.
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InterfaceFLOR Cubic Collection
The tools to mix, match, create and inspire.
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