Tamara Dean graduated from the University of Western Sydney with a degree in design. But she focussed on photography and has worked with the Sydney Morning Herald since 2001. The following year she w...
Some people defy labels. Take Joost Bakker. He started working on his fathers farm at age five - he is a fifth generation tulip farmer - and now creates sustainable structures that incorporate vegeta...
Some of the most well-known hotels of the world - especially in the USA - have had the interiors designed by New York-based Alexandra Champalimaud. In America, she is behind looks at the Hotel Bel-Ai...
UK artist Sue Williams ACourt first made a name for herself as an illustrator. Her childrens book Time for telling won the prestigious Smarties Award in 1991. (She has published seven of them.) Her a...
Phoebe McEvoy has always had a passion for design - she just wasnt sure which path she would go down. For seven years she went the way of graphic design. But she had always loved magazines, and was i...
Tim Hall started his photography career shooting the likes of Miles Davis and Prince. After making a name for himself as a jazz and rock photographer in the UK, he turned his lens to the people of So...
Iain Halliday is one of the most respected and well-known architects and interior designers in Australia. He has been working in the industry for more than 30 years, mostly during his time as a direc...
While Yellow Diva was formed in the UK - back in 1994 - since 2008 it has been based in Australia. The company, which started out when industrial designer David Walley, pictured above, collaborated w...
Its always a slightly surreal experience to see your home in a magazine. It looks so complete, somewhat final, and, well, tidy. I have to add quiet to that equation, too. Anyone who knows my tribe, k...
As a writer and critic for the global edition of the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Alice Rawsthorn analyses design, and how it affects our lives. Her column is published weekly - ...
We usually hear of stories about Australians travelling to Paris to make it in the city of lights. But sometimes it happens the other way around. Elodie Rambaud is a stylist who travelled south until...
Leah Singh travels between her two homes to create jewellery and home textiles. She studied industrial design in New York but has her wares made in India. The ranges were inspired after completing he...
The fashion label Francis Leon was only launched in 2009 but already it has been picked up by Harvey Nicks and Liberty of London as well as Barneys in New York. Its part of the Francis Leon Studio, w...
A little while ago I was interviewing a homeowner in Adelaide for real living magazine and spotted a print on her childs bedroom wall. It was the work of Naomi Murrell, who perhaps is even better kno...
It took Criena Court 10 years to take the plunge and go back to art school, and prioritise her dream of becoming an artist. That was after she worked as a graphic designer, art director and photograp...
While Thomas Housden practises as an architect in the UK, he also has a passion for getting back to basics with design. He felt that his profession was getting too far removed from the manufacturing ...
Sarah Gibson and Nicholas Karlovasitis are industrial designers who met at the University of Technology in Sydney. Back then a seed was sown to create a design company that focussed on Australian cre...
Zoe Wall is a textile designer who is based in Byron Bay on the northern coast of NSW. She has learnt her craft through her mother, and continues to cite Shyama as a mentor and inspiration. Zoe uses ...
Before Tim Pascoe became a photographer, he studied dramatic arts. It turns out that it provided him with a unique way to create images. He uses the viewfinder in his camera like a proscenium arch, a...
Finland may only be a country of 5.4 million people, but it produces some amazing architecture and design. Even withstanding its size and population. Take this garden shed by Avanto Architects for Ke...
One of the first brands that I got excited about when I started working in magazines was Elk Accessories. They were - and essentially still are (although on a larger scale) - two designers based in M...
It is just over a year since an earthquake and tsunami hit north-east Japan, obliterating the landscape and causing widespread destruction. While Japanese artist Mami Yamanaka has been living in Melb...
Who doesnt want a space of their own? (Even if you dont have much to spare.) Thats the premise behind the latest book by UK journalist and author Caroline Clifton-Mogg. She provides ideas and inspira...
During a family holiday in British Columbia in Canada, Michael Graydon was passed a Pentax Spotmatic by his father. He was 16 at the time and has been taking photographs ever since. Initially he went...
Melbourne-based Karishma Kasabia says she was "your typical Indian" at high school. She studied all three sciences and a bit of history. "No fine arts till I took a risk in the last year ...
The first time I spotted the Frida Plumm range - at Pentimento just before Christmas - I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the products were designed in Melbourne. There are not many independ...
She has been called the rock n roll Martha Stewart by the LA Times. Tobi Tobin started working as a designer about 15 years ago and has built up a strong client base, especially in the music and film...
Inspired partly by an advertisement for "Lord Coconuts Emporium of Wonder" that appeared in the Argus newspaper in 1891, Mark Boldiston opened an eponymous store-cum-gallery in Melbourne in M...
For many of my styling shoots this year Ive stopped off at shelf/life in Sydneys Surry Hills. The shop, run by Jess Ibbett, has a great mix of gifts and homewares, all with an eye towards sustainabil...
Sarah Ryhanen, Eric Famisan and Jeremy BarbourOne of the go-to places in Brooklyn, New York, for flowers in Saipua. However, the name is actually derived from the Finnish word for "soap". Sin...
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