Advice and Tips, Creativity, Finding Balance, Organise Me
Annie Gatenby
Stay productive with these 5 habits

Not a morning person, or can’t beat that pre-coffee fuzziness? When time is money we can’t afford to drift off into a haze of Instagram reels and endless Pinterest pits - or at least not every few minutes. All you need are these five simple habits to combat that unproductiveness and figure out your productivity flow!

Stay productive with these 5 habits
Education, Advice and Tips
Teodora Robinson
Own your future - Creative Mentoring for Women

Mentoring is a proven tool to help individuals reach career milestones, feel more confident in making career and business choices, and create a more harmonious work-life balance. If you’ve been searching for a mentor—or to be a mentor, now is the time!

Own your future - Creative Mentoring for Women
Growing a Business, Marketing and Social M...
Teodora Robinson
Podcasts to help you kick-start your year and ...

In case you missed it, 2020 has left the building! Whether you’ve jumped into the new year head first ready to take action, or if you’re still coming out from summer hibernation mode (guilty!) we have a collection of must-listen podcasts to help kick-start your year and crush your goals.

Podcasts to help you kick-start your year and crush your goals

Interviews with Creati...

Meet Lizzie Archer, Creative Director at The Elsewhere Co.

Meet Lizzie Archer, Creative Director at The Elsewhere Co.

This is Lizzie, the designer and founder behind sustainable accessories brand, The Elsewhere Co. - a luxury label inspiring freedom seekers around the world to escape the every day through a design philosophy that rejects all that’s ordinary, lacklustre and thoughtlessly produced.

“I have collected jewellery from all over the world and this is part of the reason I created wallets with space specifically to store jewellery! I’m passionate about sustainable fashion and believe that designers have a responsibility to understand the materials they work with—how they were made, who made them, their performance, longevity, environmental and social impact and end of life.”

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Carol Mackay, Design Business Council, on finding your onliness

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Carol Mackay, Design Business Council, on finding your onliness

Carol Mackay helps Australian creatives manage their business better - more effectively, more efficiently and more sustainably - so they can spend more time creating. After 30+ years running a graphic design firm, Carol moved from client-focused projects to consult to the design industry. Now with the Design Business Council she uses her experience, and research, to help creatives build robust, sustainable businesses, and to help businesses integrate, and profit from, design.

We talk to Jo Caughtry, from Sea of Ideas Design Studio

I am originally from Birmingham in the UK where I actually studied hairdressing after finishing my schooling. I have always loved art, architecture, fashion, all things creative really, so hairdressing was a great outlet for me to have a bit of creative fun- this was the late 80s so definitely some interesting looks back then mind you!

Unfortunately, life took a bit of a turn and after caring for a family member through a terminal illness, I went back to University and retrained as a Registered Nurse. The caring aspect has always appealed to me and I worked for many years in aged care, specifically managing nursing homes and dementia care units. It was working in dementia care that I really noticed the significance between the environment we live in and the impact on our health. It took a while but after a bit of a push from my partner, I went back to study interior design, with an interest in biophilic design, and built my knowledge on how using elements from the natural world in our living and working spaces can elevate not only our mental health, but emotional and physical health as well.

So ultimately, I discovered a link between my health and caring interest, and my creative interest, and that’s where Sea of Ideas Design Studio was born!

Say hi to Christie Brewster

Over the past 16 years, Christie Brewster has been very busy. She has worked in Sydney, London and New York, providing creative solutions for brands such as Qantas, BBC, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Pinchgut Opera, Open Data Institute, Hitachi Vantara, and TEDx London. We chat with Christie about her career, and how she gets to do what she does.

Meet Trudy Rice, artist and textile designer

Hi I’m Trudy Rice, I am an artist and I live in Port Melbourne, Victoria. I also frequent the coastal town of Lorne on the iconic Great Ocean Road where much of my inspiration comes from. I work primarily with works on paper and enjoy depicting our native flora and fauna. I also dabble in abstract painting.