Alice Blackwood

Melbourne

Melbourne Editor at Indesignlivesg & Cubes

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Articles

The neuroaesthetics of Muuto’s designs

1 month ago | indesignlive.com | Alice Blackwood

Since returning back to the workplace with increasing regularity, people have come to seek something much more nuanced from contemporary workplace environments. “People want to extend the feeling they have in their private home, into the office environment,” says Anders Cleeman, CEO of Scandinavian design house Muuto.
Ripple Effect: The development of Tom Dixon’s Groove outdoor collection

Feb 16, 2025 | indesignlive.com | Alice Blackwood

Zooming in from a wintery England, Tom Dixon fills the computer screen with his trademark effortless cool. It’s 9am London-time and we’ve come together to talk about the launch of his new Groove outdoor furniture collection in Australia. The timing for launch is spot on as we settled into the high summer, and Tom has specially teamed up with Living Edge to bring this new range to the world – Australia first.
Gensler - Living Edge

Dec 1, 2024 | indesignlive.com | Alice Blackwood

In the course of Lisa Munao’s role as managing director of Gensler Australia, deep conversations with people of all job descriptions have revealed a common ideal among workers, who are seeking out “more fun, more vibrancy where they feel connected and empowered”. Gensler’s Global Workplace Survey 2024, entitled ‘Moving beyond employee presence to workplace performance’, surveyed more than 16,000 office workers across 15 countries, and 10 industries.
Living Edge x MGS Architect

Oct 27, 2024 | indesignlive.com | Alice Blackwood

MGS Architects has a long and well documented history of delivering outstanding education design. The studio’s experience ranges from the very large scale – such as campus masterplanning, through to building design for kindergartens right through to tertiary institutions. Having completed the strategic masterplan for Xavier College’s Senior School campus in Melbourne, MGS was engaged to design its new Kostka Building, intended to house the school’s Year 7 and 8 student cohort.
Feeding new design expression with net zero impact

Jul 25, 2024 | indesignlive.com | Alice Blackwood

It was in 1963 that Verosol’s founder, Cornelius Verolme, gazed at the glass-clad skyscrapers glimmering across New York City’s skyline. He wondered at how difficult it must be to keep these buildings cool in summer and warm in winter. Cornelius was compelled to return to his home country of Holland and experiment with solutions, conceptualising a metalised fabric that could reduce both heat and glare within those towering glass edifices.
Melbourne Design Week - 12 highlights

May 19, 2024 | habitusliving.com | Alice Blackwood

What do you love most about Melbourne Design Week? Apart from a full calendar of talks, exhibitions and launches booked in from dawn to dusk, it’s the promise of discovery that I crave most. Material experimentation, conceptual product design, open-forum discussions between all levels of industry, institutions and even government, exhibitions and events that draw back the curtains on difficult topics. Melbourne Design Week delivers it all in spades.
Melbourne Design Week - 12+ highlights

May 15, 2024 | indesignlive.com | Alice Blackwood

What do you love most about Melbourne Design Week? Apart from a full calendar of talks, exhibitions and launches booked in from dawn to dusk, it’s the promise of discovery that I crave most. Material experimentation, conceptual product design, open-forum discussions between all levels of industry, institutions and even government, exhibitions and events that draw back the curtains on difficult topics. Melbourne Design Week delivers it all in spades.
Melbourne's The Royce exudes the glamour and comfort of a bygone era

May 5, 2024 | luxurytravelmag.com.au | Alice Blackwood

My Uber crawls through the city traffic. It’s a rainy night in Melbourne and the football is on, so we are going nowhere, fast. The driver laments over the choked streets jammed with honking cars sitting bumper to bumper, bopping umbrella tops and wet figures seeking reprieve from the downpour in invitingly lit restaurants and bars.
Melbourne Design Week 2024

Mar 17, 2024 | habitusliving.com | Alice Blackwood

What I love about design festivals is that they give you scope to be experimental and inquisitive, to work outside the bounds of business-as-usual, and share your most imaginative outpourings of creativity – and share all that hidden expertise. Melbourne Design Week (MDW), 23rd May to 2nd June, is an exciting hunting ground for fresh local talent, a place to connect with the wider creative community, and a destination for connecting with influential members of the global scene.
Melbourne Design Week - Design the world you want

Mar 13, 2024 | indesignlive.com | Alice Blackwood

What I love about design festivals is that they give you scope to be experimental and inquisitive, to work outside the bounds of business-as-usual, and share your most imaginative outpourings of creativity – and share all that hidden expertise. Melbourne Design Week (MDW), 23rd May to 2nd June, is an exciting hunting ground for fresh local talent, a place to connect with the wider creative community, and a destination for connecting with influential members of the global scene.