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2 weeks ago | 
australiandesignreview.com | Helena Morgan
Annie MacLean is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, we get to know MacLean, who is the proud founder of her own practice and vows to increase the accessibility of interior design no matter the size or scale of the project. Annie MacLean: I used to daydream a lot as a child. Redesigning a space in my head used to be my way to curb boredom and still very much is.
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1 month ago | 
australiandesignreview.com | Helena Morgan
Maryam Moghadam is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, we get to know the passionate industrial designer, who brims with gratitude for the opportunities afforded by design and carries around a potent childhood memory as inspiration for creating and making. Maryam Moghadam: When I was seven, I lived in Athens with my family.
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1 month ago | 
australiandesignreview.com | Helena Morgan
Autumn in the Garden State is synonymous with many things – the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, fluttering brick-coloured leaves, footy scarves galore and Melbourne Design Week. The globally celebrated design week returns on 15 May and patrons can expect 11 memorable days packed with more than 350 events, exhibitions, talks and installations.
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2 months ago | 
australiandesignreview.com | Helena Morgan
Tamara Gick is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, Gick confesses to her lifelong admiration for Charlotte Perriand and shares her passion for using design as a vessel for storytelling. Tamara Gick: My design approach is driven by the desire to create spaces that feel both refined and deeply personal.
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2 months ago | 
australiandesignreview.com | Helena Morgan
The esteemed practice has paid homage to Brighton Grammar alum John Robertson Duigan MC – best known for designing and flying the first Australian-made powered aircraft – by delivering a centre of innovation and creativity. Architectus upholds its penchant for delivering innovative purpose-built facilities with the design of the Duigan Centre at Brighton Grammar School, located on St Andrews Street in Brighton, Victoria.
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2 months ago | 
australiandesignreview.com | Helena Morgan
The university’s coffee concrete innovators have developed an ingenious decarbonising solution for the built environment that strengthens concrete by 30 percent by using biochar made from recycled coffee grounds. RMIT University continues its reputation for delivering industry-leading sustainability innovations with the development of a coffee biochar that can replace sand in the creation of concrete.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
australiandesignreview.com | Helena Morgan |Sophie Berrill
Soozy Lee is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, we get to know the self-effacing and passionate HDR interior designer, who relishes the sense of camaraderie and teamwork afforded by involvement in design projects and believes in constantly pursuing excellence. Soozy Lee: When I was about seven or eight, I had one of those sticker books where you could dress up people in different outfits.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
australiandesignreview.com | Helena Morgan
Dr Natalie Wright, a pioneering interior design educator from Brisbane, won the prestigious Gold Medal at the 2024 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). Sponsored by Krost, the Gold Medal is given to a practitioner who has made an “influential and enduring contribution to Australian design culture over the course of a career”.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
australiandesignreview.com | Tim McDonald |Helena Morgan |Charlotte Huston
At Brisbane’s Cucina Regina, designed by Australian-based design studio Tom Mark Henry, European grandeur is captured in a classic yet warm milieu that bucks the clichéd trends of Italian design. As you step into Cucina Regina, affectionately named for its prime position at Queen’s Wharf Brisbane, a sense of anticipation stirs within you. The venue’s name, meaning “The Queen’s kitchen,” is perfectly apt as a place where royalty meets warmth and elegance embraces comfort.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
australiandesignreview.com | Helena Morgan |Jessica Agoston |Charlotte Huston
The December/January issue of inside magazine is out now, featuring the winners of the recent 2024 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), alongside intimate interviews and investigative features on heritage architecture, whole-systems thinking, environmentally-grounded technological advances and more. For the architecture and design community, the end of the year presents a perfect opportunity to reflect, recuperate and marvel at the immense talent and spirit that typifies the industry.
