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

2026-10-2843:31

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 long way round: a rocky start at Pratt, years in avant industrial bands, and a phone call that brought him to Sydney. In this episode, we talk about building Dylan Farrell Design across two countries, launching the furniture collection After Editions, and what slowing down has changed. In This Episode We Explore *...

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

2026-10-1438:14

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction Rachel Luchetti has spent 17 years building one of Australia's most prolific hospitality and retail design studios, Luchetti Krelle, without ever settling on a signature look. In this episode, we talk about responsiveness, designing for feeling over awards, and what it has meant to build something in her name, in her way, on her terms. In This Episode We Explore * Why having no signature style is the strategy &...

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

2026-09-3044:17

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 Australian homes can feel. What began as a solo practice has grown, slowly and deliberately, into an all-women studio of twelve. But beneath the elegant, celebrated work sits a story most successful founders never tell: a breakdown at the end of 2018 that stopped her mid-conversation on a building site, and the slow, hone...

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

2026-09-1642:11

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 projects. Simone Mathews, founder of Soul Home, decided to walk the other way. Alongside her builder husband Ben, she's quietly built one of Australia's most interesting design and development practices, including Soul of Gerringong, The Bower and The Pause. In This Episode, We Explore: * Why she rejects ...

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

2026-09-0253:09

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, the rise. Antonia Perricone Mrljak is not that artist. She came to painting late, in her 40s, as a mother, after a first life as a fashion stylist. She walked into Sydney College of the Arts when most of her classmates were half her age, graduated with first class honours, and a year later stood in front of nine metres of bla...

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