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Despite some only starting out in the industry, while others have carved a distinct path – one thing all these people have in common is raw talent. These are the movers and shakers. These are your INDE Award Prodigy and Luminary nominations.
These candidates have been handpicked by the Indesign Media editorial team, but the ultimate winner will be up to you. We’ve scoured the Asia Pacific region and believe these are the people to keep an eye on.
So who are they?
These stalwart figures should need no introduction. They have all worked tirelessly in the A+D industry, perfecting their art, honing their skills and creating a body of work with meaning.
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Mia Feasey
Australia & Singapore
Mia Feasey is the founder, CEO and creative driving force behind interior design consultancy Siren Design. With client spanning the Asia Pacific region, Siren has head offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore.
Siren has been redefining the interior architecture landscape for the past thirteen years and is considered the ‘game changer’ within the design industry.
Siren’s continued success, working across all sectors, includes hospitality, retail, workplace and residential development. Key global clients such as Facebook, Google, Uber, LinkedIn and Twitter have contributed to Siren being awarded the Herman Miller ‘Best in Tech’ Award (Most liveable office awards for Asia Pacific Region). More recently the Australian-owned Atlassian recently took out the ‘Gold’ Sydney Design Award, For personal accolades, Feasey received the NAWIC Businesswoman Award and Perspective Global 40 under 40 Design Star of the Future,
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Khai Liew
Australia
As a designer of exquisitely crafted furniture, Khai Liew is passionate about materials and the handmade. Drawing on his own cultural heritage and his expert knowledge of Australian decorative arts and colonial histories, Liew occupies a unique place in contemporary furn
Liew was born in Malaysia, and
Khai Liew's first solo exhibition,
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Recognising the leading lights of designers, thinkers, and makers, Australian Design Honours is a growing resource dedicated to promoting and advocating for Australian contemporary craft and design on the world stage.
Hand-picked by ADC and saluting 50 years of Australian design, Australian Design Honours represents four pillars of design; creative activists, digital engagers, spatial thinkers, and object makers.
Adam Goodrum
With a focus on furniture, product and interior design, industrial designer Adam Goodrum’s work unifies functionality with a bold and colourful aesthetic. Over the last 20 years Adam has worked with an impressive list of clients including Cappellini, Normann Copenhagen, and Cult.
Addison Marshall
Working primarily in ceramics, and drawing on his fashion background, Addison Marshall blurs the boundaries between art, craft, drawing and design to create visual feasts that mix innovative ideas and materials.
Akira Isogawa
One of Australia’s most celebrated fashion designers, Akira Isogawa has achieved worldwide recognition for his contemporary designs. With his richly embellished fabrics and traditional prints, the craftsmanship and romanticism of his Eastern-influenced work is legendary.
Alexander Lotersztain
Argentine born and Australian-based designer Alexander Lotersztain is the founder of renowned multi-disciplinary design studio Derlot, specialising in product, furniture and interior design, as well as hotel concepts, branding and art direction.
Alison Page
A descendant of the Walbanga and Wadi Wadi people of the Yuin nation, award-winning Alison Page creative uses her practice to explore links between cultural identity, art and the built environment.
Andrew Simpson
Combining aesthetic elegance with sustainable ethics, the Australian Design Centre believes Andrew Simpson will play a large role in bringing environmentally friendly design to the masses.
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Australia is home to many fine product designers but quietly leading the vanguard is one designer renowned, both at home and abroad, for his outstanding and beautiful designs. That person is Khai Liew and, through his eponymous studio, he and his team have become a powerhouse of design, creating extraordinary objects and helping to cultivate the next generation of artisans.
Liew was born in Malaysia, and early influences of design came from his father, an architectural draftsman (among other things), who at one stage designed a contemporary Japanese style house for the family.
And so, design was simmering in the background as the young Liew came to Australia for his education. Although he studied economics at university, he found this was not the path for him, gravitating towards design, history and, in particular, early Australian Colonial furniture.
Scouring old furniture stores and op shops he collected pieces, took them apart and put them back together to sell and was so successfully that this fledgling enterprise paid for his university education.
Finding a love for the handmade and the artisanal, Liew created quite a business and as his understanding of colonial furniture increased, so too did his desire to extrapolate this knowledge and create his own particular designs.
Working, designing and exploring furniture making, Liew made a name for himself. There were two seminal exhibitions, one in and another in where Liew presented his collections of bespoke objects to great acclaim.
In an exhibition “Collec+ors” that comprised six of Australia’s most renowned contemporary artists, along with Liew and his furniture, was so highly regarded that the South Australian exhibition was selected for the British Insurance Design of the Year Awards and subsequently exhibited at the London Design Museum in the UK.
Fast forward to and Khai Liew and his studio is in-demand as a global maker of furniture, lighting, objects, accessories and bespoke requiremen
