Alice Blackwood is the Editorial Director at Indesign Media, and Editor of Indesign magazine and Indesignlive.com. She is a trained journalist and editor, with a background in branding and communications strategy.

For more than 15 years Alice has been a passionate advocate of the architecture and design industry within Australia and the wider Indo Pacific region. Through her work on international design festivals, regional awards programs including the INDE.Awards, as well as in print and digital media, she has helped establish numerous major platforms that recognise and celebrate the region’s most exciting architecture and design, and elevate those industry leaders into the global spotlight.

“Our region’s design is defined by its fresh, yet hungry entrepreneurial spirit, its bold thought and brave actions, the flawless execution of complex ideas, and world-leading outcomes. I’m fascinated by all the moving parts of our architecture and design community – the businesses, the brands, the big-thinkers and everyday-doers.”

Alice remains an active member of the Australian design and media industries as a Moderator, MC, Judge, Commentator, Mentor and Advisor. Among her main passions are workplace design, education design, healthcare design, wellness design, hospitality design and the business of design.

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Saturday Indesign Afterparty lights up Industry Lanes
The Saturday Indesign Afterparty was hosted this year at Richmond’s newly opened 5 Star Green Star workplace campus, Industry Lanes, thanks to Salta Properties and Abacus.
Announcing the best in Indo-Pacific Architecture and Design: The 2023 INDE.Awards Shortlist Revealed!
See the very best of Indo-Pacific architecture and design with the annual shortlist release.
Gurner Group designs haven for wellbeing
Gurner Group has just opened its first Australian Saint Haven private wellness club, boasting facilities, client services and an ethos that promotes wellness, anti-ageing and bio hacking. We took the private tour.
Follow the highlights: SLAB’s studio trip to Herman Miller US
SLAB, the design studio which won Herman Miller’s Work, Redefined – The Design Challenge in 2021, is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime. Follow them as they discover the world of Herman Miller in the US, 3-6 October.
SLAB redefines the Office and wins Herman Miller’s Design Challenge at the same time
Boutique architectural practice SLAB wins Work, Redefined – The Design Challenge with a Kit Of Pods for the Social Office with a 3-D printed off-the-shelf product that is both a solution and a strategy and that puts people at the centre of the new socially-driven workplace.
New matchmaking platform for professional designers
FRONT.designTech launches today, providing the commercial design community with a comprehensive directory to all the people they need to meet.