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Creativity Is the Residue of Wasted Time — Dylan Farrell on Failing Forward and Starting at 28

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction  Dylan Farrell's design career began underneath his father's drafting board in New York, and took a l

"Every Project Is Going to Be a New Brief" | Rachel Luchetti on Designing Without a Signature Style

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction  Rachel Luchetti has spent 17 years building one of Australia's most prolific hospitality and retail desig

The Breakdown That Became a Breakthrough — Alexandra Kidd on Rebuilding a Life and a Business

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction  In a small studio above McClay Street in Potts Point, Alexandra Kidd has spent more than 20 years shaping how

"Energy Over Empire" — Simone Mathews on Choosing to Build Smaller

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction   Somewhere along the way, ambition began to look like a larger studio, a bigger team, a longer list of project

"I Am a Creative Person, Even Though I Never Admitted It" — Antonia Perricone Mrljak's Late Awakening

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction There is a kind of artist whose career you can summarise in a paragraph: the school, the prize, the gallery,

I Woke Up to 3 Million Views — Georgina Wilson on Becoming the Internet's Architect

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction There's a particular kind of honesty that's hard to find in any industry, the kind that looks at som

The Room Went From One Table to Global — Grace Miller on Four Years at The Diary of a CEO

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Every beautiful thing you've ever loved was iterated into existence. This week on Build Beautiful, we're joined by

Success Never Feels as Sweet as It Should — Yasmine Ghoniem on the Cost of Getting Everything You Want

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Yasmine Ghoniem's father left for Kuwait for what he said would be a couple of months. Seven months later, her mother s

He Got a $30K Loan for a Pool Party. It Started a Global Design Brand. | Nicholas Karlovasitis

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! The bank told Nicholas Karlovasitis they could not give him a business loan. No trading history. So he called back and told

Your Agent Wants to Sell. Your Valuer Wants the Truth. | Belinda Botzolis

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Your agent wants to sell. Your valuer wants the truth. And most people — designers, renovators, developers — never call the

Her Water Broke on the Last Day of Filming The Great Gatsby. | Silvana Azzi Heras

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Her water broke on the last day of filming The Great Gatsby. She had spent years inside Baz Luhrmann's creative world —

30 Years of Interior Design, Friendship and Reinvention | Helen Lynch & Karyn McRae

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Helen Lynch and Karyn McRae, co-founders of McRae & Lynch Design, have been in business together for thirty years. They met

I Was Happy But Broke: What Nobody Tells You About Running a Studio for 21 Years. | Brooke Aitken

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! For years, she was running her architecture practice on passion alone. The work was good. The clients were happy. And the mo

There's a Difference Between Buying Art and Living With It. | Kym Elphinstone

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! There's a version of living with art that most people never reach. They buy something. They hang it. They look at it so

Most Designers Listen to the Brief. She Listens to What's Beneath It. | Alexandra Donohoe Church

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Most designers listen to the brief. Alexandra Donohoe Church listens to what's beneath it. She reads desire, not just p

From Factory Floor to Award-Winning Interior Designer | Darren Genner

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! When Darren Genner started his career, he was on a production line in western Sydney — making 34 kitchens a day. Not designi

Her Parents Fled Iran. She Grew Up to Design Australia's Most Iconic Restaurants. | Nasim Koerting

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Nasim Koerting grew up knowing what it means not to belong. Her parents arrived in Australia as refugees from Iran, and she

She Put Art Prices Online When Every Gallery Said Don't. | Sophie Vander

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! When Sophie Vander launched her online art gallery from a Singapore apartment at 3am, she broke the most sacred rule in the

Her Husband's Heart Stopped in Front of Her. What Came After Was Harder. | Carla Middleton

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! She was running her architecture practice when it happened. Her husband went into sudden cardiac arrest, right in front of h

He Said No to Trends for 40 Years. This Is What He Built Instead. | Thomas Hamel

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Somewhere in the mid-1980s, a young designer was working at Parish-Hadley in New York — one of the most storied interior des