People

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

October 10, 2025

Mim Fanning on art, travel and the state of interior design

The Mim x Tim show: Miriam Fanning of Mim Design joins Timothy Alouani-Roby at The Commons in Melbourne to discuss art, design on television, interior design and more.

October 2, 2025

Architecture as laboratory: Notes from the Venice Biennale with David Holm

In this comment piece, COX Principal David Holm reflects on Carlo Ratti’s curatorship in which climate, colonisation and gender equity took centre stage at the Venice Biennale.

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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 29, 2025

A certain type of design at Sydney Design Week

Type designer Vincent Chan, who delivered a keynote speech with the Powerhouse as part of Sydney Design Week, tells us about the history and importance of this niche profession.

September 23, 2025

Annabelle Smith Wins The Graduate at the INDE.Awards 2025

Annabelle Smith has been named winner of The Graduate at the INDE.Awards 2025, in partnership with Colorbond. Her visionary project reimagines housing in Aotearoa, proposing a modular and culturally responsive model uniting people, architecture and nature.

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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 19, 2025

Stories Indesign: Piers Taylor and the Glenn Murcutt Symposium

Piers Taylor joins Timothy Alouani-Roby at The Commons to discuss overlaps with Glenn Murcutt and Francis Kéré, his renowned 'Studio in the Woods,' and the sheer desire to make things with whatever might be at hand. 

September 18, 2025

A fresh take: Inside Adelaide Design Week

The inaugural Adelaide Design Week *everywhere unfolded across five days and nights, bringing together the creative community in a way that hadn’t happened before. Organiser and regular contributor Bronwyn Marshall gives us the inside story.

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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 17, 2025

Between Sydney and London: Earle Arney on Stories Indesign

The London-based architect was recently in Australia for SyLon, an event broadcast simultaneously in Sydney and London to explore housing solutions across both cities.

September 16, 2025

Vale Nicholas Grimshaw

British architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw CBE PPRA has died at the age of 85.

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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.

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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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.

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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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.