NZBusiness and Management

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We all know the scene, spending eight or more hours a day in an office in front of a computer, typing away on a screen. We increasingly work with machines at machine pace. We work to the clock, not the seasons or even sunset and sunrise. It is estima

Fast Company

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THERE’S A BUILDING ON GOOGLE’S Mountain View, California, campus that’s off-limits to most of the company’s own employees. The 70,000-square-foot Design Lab, which opened last June, houses around 150 designers and dozens of top-secret projects under

Kitchens & Bathrooms Quarterly

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Helen Baumann of Helen Baumann Design discovered the real joy of designing interesting spaces while working as a set designer at the ABC in the ‘90s, but had been involved in the field since completing her BA in Interior Design a few years earlier. D

The Cottage Journal

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With years of experience and a passion for the fundamentals of interior design, Sandra Lucas and Sarah Eilers share their book, Expressive Interiors: Designing an Inviting Home, which tackles the challenge of creating a welcoming space that also tell

Grand Designs Australia

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WORDS LOUISE SMITHERS for most of us, childhood fantasies remain just that; they fade around the edges and lose their lustre, slowly evanescing into obscurity. But Cult designer Gavin Harris has held onto his love of sci-fi, Sid Mead and all things m

Home Journal

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It’s every design lover’s dream to establish an enterprise with talents who share the same values and passion; what’s even better is when your business partners are your trusted friends. Creative studio Kimu Design – the brainchild of three aspiring

BluPrint

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“It all starts with a story, a perspective of reality that we decide to act on. How we choose to act on this reality is a form of design. In my work, it’s important that what we create belongs to those who will use and maintain the building over time

Grand Designs Australia

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we’re so excited to introduce you to our new Special Feature. In our reader survey last year we asked what you wanted to see more of, and greater in-depth content was a resounding frontrunner. It got the team thinking that because we’re lucky enough

Fête

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PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF, YOUR BACKGROUND AND HOW YOU GOT TO WHERE YOU ARE TODAY… I grew up in the Mornington Peninsula, we lived on the land and that experience really translated into an appreciation of nature and physical materiality.

Grand Designs Australia

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industrial designer and co-founder of DesignByThem Nick Karlovasitis is a man of wide experience and curious creative thought — and his body of work is exemplary. The creative calling struck Nick when he was just a whippersnapper. “From a young age I

Houses

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There are many phrases that come to mind when describing Calen Knauf’s work: eclectic, dynamic and just downright cool. The Vancouver-based designer established Knauf and Brown with Conrad Brown in 2013 following their graduation from Emily Carr Univ

House and Leisure

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Get three leaders in the field of luxury around a beautifully designed table, and we figured that something good would happen. But even we were surprised by our first Round Table discussion – a new regular feature in which you can expect bright minds

Dwell

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You were one of the founding members of the Memphis design movement, which gained global notoriety in the mid to late 1970s. What was Italy like at that time? In the 1970s, I was a student. When you are a student, you have all your life in front of y

Philippine Tatler Homes

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When Piero Ambrogio Busnelli founded B&B Italia 50 years ago, he challenged the furniture industry and set on a path no other Italian furniture company had taken before—industrialisation. Busnelli possessed a unique vision: to bring to the world a qu

Kitchens & Bathrooms Quarterly

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Delivering kitchen designs of great style and unbeatable versatility with impeccable service, Kitchens by CJ understands that functionality and style in a multi-use space are crucial. The company knows the kitchen of your dreams doesn’t just happen —

GoodHomes India

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In a world obsessed with large, complicated and shiny designs, Srikanth Varma’s design ethos is a breath of fresh air! We take this opportunity to introduce you to the recipient of “Best Furniture Design” at the recently-concluded GoodHomes Awards 20

Home Design

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Words Stephanie Russo When a designer is at the top of his or her game, an unmistakable sense of confidence, ease and spirit is evident in every detail. Such is the case for Chris Carroll. An aspiring writer in another life, Chris completed work expe

House and Leisure

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Design, in general, is a strange concept to get your head around. It relies on so many abstract components and it’s so difficult to decide objectively if it’s ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – or maybe it’s just difficult for me. I have sat with my peers in many sad

Artichoke

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Now that we have reached the midpoint of our working year, shivering in the midst of another Australian winter, it can be difficult to maintain our enthusiasm and tempting to begin to wonder whether we ever get rewarded for our efforts. DIA is a prou

Queensland Homes

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The company values of attention to detail, quality and integrity are evident in each project it undertakes. These values also extend to Kaha Homes’ personalised design and construction service, which ensures you retain creative and quality control th

Home and Design Trends

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“Shapes, colours and materials are second nature to me; like numbers to a banker or words to a writer. I know nothing else,” declares Hong Kong-based industrial designer and Director of his eponymous studio, Michael Young. He doesn’t define himself a

Grand Designs Australia

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PETER MADDISON EDITOR-AT-LARGE in this issue, I’d like to investigate design within the five elements needed to make a home. Design is the seed from which all building should grow because it serves a human condition. Design brings into focus our cult

Queensland Homes

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The company values of attention to detail, quality and integrity are evident in each project it undertakes. These values also extend to Kaha Homes’ personalised design and construction service, which ensures you retain creative and quality control th

HOME Magazine NZ

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Aotea Centre, Auckland August 9–11 How did you get started in design? We met, fell in love, and have been working together 24/7 for 18 years. What’s in the studio right now and what’s coming up? Our studio is situated in a 1925 pump station, right

Residential Tech Today

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“Wellness” (aka biophilia) is a growing movement, centering smart tech design around people and the overall state of wellness that they have in a space. This design philosophy affects how spaces are composed in a more holistic way, which requires mor

Architectural Digest India

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Italian brand Visionnaire celebrated a double birthday at Salone and presented a range of surprises: a collectible book titled Decalogue; a photography exhibition; a video-art project; a ballet and a music show. It was not just a celebration, but a f

Home and Design Trends

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HAVE you ever revisited any of your projects and thought about all the things you’d do differently? Have you ever looked at your early work and felt the rush of emotion you’d experienced then as you cracked those complications? Is it even possible to

Architectural Digest India

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There is nothing remotely prehistoric about 500BC—the brand or the epoch. “[The epoch] marked the beginning of the Axial Age, which ushered in the period of some great thinkers—Socrates, Mahavir, Buddha, Confucius,” says Anandita Shah. And 500BC the

Hong Kong Tatler

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Sarah Lee and Yutaka Yano, founders of Hong Kong-based design studio Sky Yutaka, are two of the young designers contributing an installation to this year’s Archigram-designed Design Trust gala. The pair have a longstanding connection with Archigram’s

Grand Designs Australia

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I'M LOVING AUSTRALIAN ARTIST MORGAN SHIMELD AND HIS TRIPLEX BLACK SCULPTURE.LIVINGEDGE.COM.AU While I’ve written for Grand Designs Australia magazine for years, I’m a bit excited to be writing my very first editor’s letter. When I started my career