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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.

September 9, 2025

“The junction of the rational and the poetic”: Glenn Murcutt’s award bestowed upon Francis Kéré

With the inaugural Glenn Murcutt Symposium set to take place in Sydney in September 2025, Pritzker Prize-winner Francis Kéré receives the Murcutt Pin.

September 9, 2025

Will Lynes calls for architects and designers to value the ancient trade of signwriting

Despite its long and rich history, signwriting is a profession in decline. Will Lynes’ new show, Oily Water at Canberra Glassworks, aims to showcase the techniques of the trade to highlight its potential in design.

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Shaping Australian design culture for 25 years with Living Edge CEO Aidan Mawhinney

For Aidan Mawhinney, the secret ingredient to Living Edge’s success “comes down to people, product and place.” As the brand celebrates a significant 25-year milestone, it’s that commitment to authentic, sustainable design – and the people behind it all – that continues to anchor its legacy.

September 5, 2025

Multiple moments of mastery with Biasol

Through experience and with a passion for great design, Biasol is making gentle and perfect waves on the landscape of design.

September 4, 2025

A winning appointment

Leading by design, Erik L’Heureux has recently taken the helm of Monash University's Department of Architecture, and so a new and exciting journey begins for both L’Heureux and the University.

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Proven and experienced Australian manufacturer evolves

With a bold, singular vision and a new factory just around the corner from their Western Sydney manufacturing heartland, Maxton Fox’s evolution takes the best of its history while setting its eyes on the future – and keeping its feet firmly planted on Australian soil.

September 2, 2025

“Made with care and intention”: Stuart Williams in profile

In Tasmania, Stuart Williams crafts his work with care and creates objects of desire with sustainability at their heart.

September 2, 2025

Saturday Indesign set to hit CBD/South Melbourne Precinct

The CBD and South Melbourne Precinct promises a day of design experiences that balance movement, wellbeing, innovation and hospitality.

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An untethered design for a fluid workplace: Joel Sampson discusses the Bay Work Pod

How can design empower the individual in a workplace transforming from a place to an activity? Here, Design Director Joel Sampson reveals how prioritising human needs – including agency, privacy, pause and connection – and leveraging responsive spatial solutions like the Herman Miller Bay Work Pod is key to crafting engaging and radically inclusive hybrid environments.

September 2, 2025

Dr Piers Taylor arrives for Glenn Murcutt Symposium

Dr Piers Taylor – award-winning British architect, BBC presenter and founder of Invisible Studio – returns to Australia to deliver a keynote at the inaugural Glenn Murcutt Symposium.

August 29, 2025

“A magic you can’t prescribe, control or manifest”: Trent Jansen’s new exhibition at Studio ALM

Trent Jansen's first Sydney solo exhibition in years celebrates the poetry and stories that grow from collaborative making as well as the importance of co-creation.

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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.

August 29, 2025

Speakers share their reflections ahead of fjcstudio’s Queensland event

As the next event in a series of discussions centring on Richard Francis-Jones’ book comes to Brisbane, we hear directly from the speakers on fences, villas and the importance of critical community.

August 29, 2025

An exemplar jury for the 2025 INDE.Awards

With the 2025 INDE.Awards now over, it’s time to take a breath before it all begins again in early December. However, integral to the awards this year and every year is the jury – and what an amazing group came together in 2025.

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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.

August 26, 2025

A milestone conversation with David Hicks

The Melbourne-based interior designer is celebrating his eponymous practice's quarter-century. He joins Timothy Alouani-Roby at The Commons during a flying visit to Sydney to discuss this milestone and much more.

August 26, 2025

A Thai star at the 2025 INDE.Awards

A star of the 2025 INDE Awards is Jenchieh Hung + Kulthida Songkittipakdee / HAS design and research, a practice that made quite the impression on the jury and in the awards.

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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.