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CREATIVE DIRECTOR BREANNE RAFFOUL
Being told that she would never amount to anything - by her school vice principal - put a fire inside Breanne Raffoul. She is the Melbourne born and bred founder, designer and creative director of...
Read moreSometimes it’s worth getting to know your neighbours. Talk often turned to homewares when the Melbourne-based founders of Marmoset Found, Nareen Holloway and Cherie Slater, got together. “Cherie an...
Read moreGeorgie Leckeyalways wanted to be surrounded by beautiful product. After studying textile merchandising at RMIT, she worked in the buying departments of Laura Ashley for many years followed by t...
Read more“It’s always interesting to see people’s reaction when you say you design rugs,” says Christine McDonald. “It’s just not a career that is heard of, but once you tell people who or where you design ...
Read moreTEXTILE DESIGNER CAROLINA LOPEZ CRUZ
It wasn’t until Carolina Lopez Cruz learnt what possibilities were open to her that she really found her creative path. She had grown up in Cali, Colombia and only thought you could go to universit...
Read moreTIMOROUS BEASTIES DESIGNERS ALISTAIR MCAULEY AND PAUL SIMMONS
It was a Glasgow Toile wallpaper that put Timorous Beasties on the world map in 2004. But the Scottish-based design studio by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons had been going for 14 years by then. ...
Read moreDESIGNER + WOOD MAKER OLIVER MACLATCHY
“I feel like I’ve always known where I wanted to go,” Oliver MacLatchysays. However, it was when he first came up with the idea for timber water spouts in 2013 that he got a real sense of momentum ...
Read moreIt was during a year of living in Italy a few years ago that Elise Heslopstruck upon an idea that has since changed her life. She was living a simpler life with her young family in a smaller...
Read moreFURNITURE DESIGNER SIMON ANCHER
The less-followed path turned out to be a good one for furniture maker Simon Ancher. He comes from a long line of architects - his grandfather, father, mother, two sisters and brother have all belo...
Read moreDESIGNERS SOPHIE TATLOW + BRUCE SLORACH
“Careers and businesses are like a games of Snakes and Ladders,” says Sophie Tatlow of Utopia Goods. “They go up and down, you win some projects and lose others.” With the textile design business t...
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