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With all the effort we put into our workouts, it would be great if we could also burn extra calories while at rest, too. That’s where something called excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, or

Inside Alexander House – Australia’s Most Beautiful Live-Work Space

We haven’t seen every Australian workplace, but we feel confident calling Alexander House the most beautiful office in the country.

More accurately, the building is the self-designed headquarters of design studio Alexander &CO, which is also occasionally used for entertaining after hours by the practice’s principal Jeremy Bull and marketing director Tess Glasson, who live in a separate house next door with their four children. 

The entire project came to life over the pandemic, which saw a new house built behind the existing heritage facade in just seven months.

Step inside and you’ll find various work areas to suit private and collaborative work. There are even bedrooms to accommodate interstate team members, and amenities such as a steam room and ice bath!

Okonomiyaki – The Design Files | Australia's most popular design blog.

This afternoon Julia Busuttil Nishimura & Norihiko Nishimura are back with one of Japan’s most distinctive and popular dishes – Okonomiyaki!   Literally translated as ‘what you like’ (okonomi) and  ‘cooked’ (yaki), it’s a perennial crowd pleaser, and can be made in endless variations to suit your taste, with or without meat.  For this version, Julia wowed us by adding fresh squid to the batter, which she prepared from scratch!  TOP EFFORT.

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Seven Standout Emerging Creatives of 2021

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Oat Studio

For Sarah Annand, textiles are the medium that fuses all her creative loves together. Her brand Oat Studio is a way for the designer to unite photography, painting and architecture in fabric design.

Sarah’s textile designs are a culmination of decade of experience in the local fabric industry, a degree in art history and her love for Canberra’s modernist architecture. An unexpected trifecta!

Read the full story here. 

Beautiful textiles by Oat Studios. Photo – Jenny Wu.


Sarah Annand of Oat Studio’s designs are printed digitally onto fabrics which are suitable for upholstery, cushions or soft furnishings. Photo – Jenny Wu.


The resulting geometric patterns are realised in soft tonal palettes, with lots of greens, browns, and creams. Photo – Jenny Wu.


Camille Laddawan in her studio, located at the front of the old shop she lives in in Collingwood. Photo – Roslyn Orlando.


A warped and shaggy finished piece. Photo – Camille Laddawan.


Threading beads onto the loom. Photo – Roslyn Orlando.


Mia’s new Brunswick studio is filled with light, and is the perfect space to continue on her growing portfolio of work. Photo  – Amelia Stanwix for The Design Files.


Butchalla-Burmese artist Mia Boe in her light-filled studio. Photo  – Amelia Stanwix for The Design Files.


One of Mia’s works in progress.


Ruby (left) and Emma (right) packing orders and doing brand things. Photo – Amelia Stanwix for The Design Files.


From start to finish, one of the Dante two-toned candles takes about five hours to complete. Photo – Amelia Stanwix for The Design Files.


Andy Kepitis and Lara Fisher (Raf the pup), founders of P0LY Designs. Photography – Amelia Stanwix.


Every piece from P0LY Designs is customisable and made-to-order. Photography – Amelia Stanwix.


Andy and Lara grouting one of their tiled side tables. Photography – Amelia Stanwix.


Megan tufting designs vertically! Photo – Amelia Stanwix.


Megan in the studio, surrounded by her own works. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.


Shaving the finished covers. Photo – Amelia Stanwix.


Photo – Hattie Molloy.


Photo – Hattie Molloy.

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