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‘Going All In’ to Meet the Climate Crisis
Presented by Interface
Events
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.
Events
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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Case study: Biophilic design tactics in Australian school design
More relevant than ever, biophilia has become a centrepiece of education design. Speaking with Lyons, ThomsonAdsett, Capral, Krause and more, we gain insight into the best products and smartest approaches dissolving the boundaries between inside and out.
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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!
Events
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.
Articles
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.
Dissections
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.
Dissections
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.
Dissections
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.
Articles
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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All aboard! Interface’s new Sydney HQ transforms a heritage-listed railway building
After taking +Positive Spaces around the world, Interface is designing the change it wants to see in the world in its new headquarters in Sydney, Australia.
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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?
Dissections
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.
Dissections
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.
Dissections
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.
Dissections
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.
Dissections
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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The Interface is the Solution for Smart Homes
Jane Braun reports from Schneider Electric on the crucial importance of a user-friendly interface in a smart home.
Dissections
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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Monash College International Business School by Jackson Clements Burrows
From ‘teacher focused’ to ‘student focused’, we are now able to customise and personalise our educational needs. How then, is our industry responding to these new educational models and typologies focused around Hubs, Labs and Crowd-Sharing?
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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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Meet The Calyx, The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney’s New Horticultural Display Centre
See how The Calyx, The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney’s New Horticultural Display Center, designed by PTW Architects, has blossomed into a world-class attraction, landing a 2017 Good Design Award.
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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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BCG Digital Ventures By Carr: “You Wanna Learn? Then It’s Time To Get Uncomfortable.”
Change is uncomfortable – agonising even, but non-negotiable in modern professional culture. Here, design has a responsibility to create spaces that not only allow change to happen, but that make the otherwise thorny process of ‘self-education’ an engaging, positive one.
Events
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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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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Who Won At The Inaugural INDE.Awards?
On Friday 30th June, we announced winners of the very first INDE.Awards program. Couldn’t make it? Don’t stress! Here are your offIcial 2017 winners…
Ideas
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?
Articles
How Can Nature Influence Human Nature?
The rise of biophilic design is seeing A+D reconnect the ‘designed world’ with the ‘non-designed world’.
Articles
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?
Dissections
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.
Ideas
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?
Ideas
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?
Ideas
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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Futurespace’s Education Centre Offers Pre-Schoolers a Seamless Transition
The role of A+D in the early childhood education sector is becoming increasingly crucial. But, in what can be a high-stress environment for child and parent alike, how have we responded to ensure that our youngest end-users can experience confidence early in their educational career?
Articles
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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Deloitte Perth by Geyer
How does the world’s most influential auditing firm self-audit? Designed by Geyer, the new Deloitte Head Quarters in Perth is a stellar case study for self-analysis and designing for the (sometimes opposing) needs of many in a single space.
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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.
Articles
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.
Ideas
#NegativeToPositive: The Interface Mission
Interface is actively making a difference – and here’s why the world of design should pay attention.
Articles
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.
Articles
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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A mindful space for Beautiful Thinkers
Designers from PMDL architecture and interior design find a mindful focus of tranquillity for Beautiful Thinkers.
People
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.
Magazine
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.
Ideas
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).
Ideas
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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Architecture expresses the craft of dentistry
This project by Melbourne architecture practice, Demaine Partnership, began when two dentists, who are also father and son, decided that they needed a new building for their growing dental practice – a building that would reflect the quality of their dentistry and modern equipment, and a building that would serve their business well into the future. We chat with architect, Craig Barkla to discuss his approach to the Beaumaris Dental brief.
Magazine
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.
Articles
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.
Workplace
A Regional Brief
In Indesign #62, Paul McGillick discovers how a prominent legal practice rolls out regional offices that have their own identity while remaining part of the team.
Articles
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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TCW Opens New Melbourne Showroom
TCW has celebrated the long awaited opening of its all-new Melbourne showroom on Bourke Street.
Ideas
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!
Magazine
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.
Articles
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.
Articles
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.
Articles
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.
Articles
What does flooring have to do with ABW??
A collaboration between designer Karen Choi and Interface for the CIP commercial space, reveals the answer
Ideas
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.