Nexus Designs

We’re excited to share that our CSR Style Guide Campaign Creative has been awarded 🏆 Gold in the 2026 Graphis Inc. Design Awards — a globally recognised benchmark of excellence in advertising and communication design. This recognition underscores the strength of our strategic design thinking and the impact of a rigorous, insight-led creative process across national brand and product campaigns. For this project, we developed a comprehensive visual system spanning campaign identity, typography, colour palette, tone of voice, image creation and messaging hierarchy. Our approach balances bold, inspirational photography with clear, accessible language to build confidence and clarity for consumers engaging with CSR’s product range. A huge thank you to our team and collaborators whose expertise shaped this outcome. Explore the Campaign Creative, or discover how we designed the Material Colour Palettes that underpin this national campaign with Case Studies: https://lnkd.in/gVJNTf5P

During Saturday Indesign this year, Living Edge brought together 20 leading architecture and interiors firms to reimagine the iconic Magis Puppy – creativity unleashed in support of Guide Dogs Victoria. Our entry, RUFF RUFF is inspired by materials found in an atelier. Round head pins are applied as a pattern of raised dots spelling RUFF RUFF inviting touch. Fabric offcuts (our favourite Paul Smith from Maharam!) have been reimagined into a contemporary Elizabethan Ruff – a once exclusive adornment, now a contemporary expression of playfulness. The hands-on making process was a celebration of creative play, and collaboration that genuinely brought our team together to design, source and make our entry. Thank you to Living Edge for the invite and congratulations to Levi by FK, crowned Top Dog by public vote! Living Edge Magis Official Guide Dogs Australia Indesign Media Asia Pacific

Announcing the inaugural People Places Prize 2025!  We’re thrilled to support this creative initiative and share that the People Places Prize is now open for entries. Celebrating creativity and innovation in shaping our urban environments the winning entry will receive a $10,000 prize and feature in an exhibition and online platform through the philanthropic initiative peopleplaces.org.au Find out more and follow the links through to Entry Information here https://lnkd.in/gc2jzeeY Sonia Simpfendorfer Patrick Kennedy Prof. Alan Pert Anita von Bibra Rob McGauran AM and kerstin thompson make for quite the jury!

Nexus Designs, has devised a magical transformation without moving or removing any walls or ripping out the kitchen and bathrooms, demonstrating the dexterity of interior design. “We don’t believe in change for change’s sake,” says Sonia Simpfendorfer. Read the full Belle Magazine article on Homes to Love. Thanks to Tanya Buchanan for featuring our Evergreen project in this month's Belle Magazine, Sharyn Cairns for the stunning photography and Chris Pearson for his eloquent words. https://lnkd.in/grWPt8nz

Last week our Associate Myra Murtagh attended a Symposium hosted by National Gallery of Victoria in partnership with RMIT University, to mark the opening of the exhibition Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday.   A bumper range of panellists across the full day session unpicked a range of topics facing society and industry today, from the future of fashion to material innovation at scale and how we can better consider the role of food in our lives.   Particular highlights included a jostling discussion on timber construction between Ross Harding and Joost Bakker, an in-depth look into responsible clothing for burial and how creating decentralised supply chains to allow manufacturing at the source is disrupting outdated systems.   As a sobering opener, Andrew Simpson from Vert Design reflected on our collective suffering from a ‘crisis of imagination’, where we can more easily imagine a dystopian end of the world scenario than a more positive world where capitalism does not reign supreme.   But as Senior Curator at the NGV Ewan McEoin confidently stated, we are moving forward, from design as a force of extraction to a force of regeneration. And this is the key take-away – despite challenges, every positive step we are taking in design, innovation, planning and inclusion means we are making good of a future world. The solutions included in the Making Good exhibition and as part of the Symposium discussions inspire with their real-world application and scalability, and ask us to carefully consider our responsibilities as people and practitioners.   Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Open now until 1 February 2026 Free entry

OUT NOW, Belle Magazine’s October issue featuring our Evergreen project. The Classically Composed editorial expertly describes our low intervention approach to transforming this family home in Melbourne’s south-east. Thank you to Tanya Buchanan from Belle Magazine, Sharyn Cairns and Bek Sheppard for our stunning photo shoot and Chris Pearson for the interview. https://lnkd.in/gbrMq5q3

OUT NOW, Belle Magazine’s October issue featuring our Evergreen project. The Classically Composed editorial expertly describes our low intervention approach to transforming this family home in Melbourne’s south-east. Thank you to Tanya Buchanan from Belle Magazine, Sharyn Cairns and Bek Sheppard for our stunning photo shoot and Chris Pearson for the interview. https://lnkd.in/gbrMq5q3

Design with Intention – A Fishbowl Discussion Nexus Designs + Cultivated are bringing an exciting new collaboration to Green Design Show Melbourne as part of Décor & Design in July. Join us at this industry seminar session to explore how designers, makers, manufacturers and certifiers can work together to support more elevated, thoughtful and future-focused design practices, from product stewardship and takeback schemes to circularity, certification and elegant design for longevity. Renowned design editor Alice Blackwood will guide the discussion with Joshua Ellis of Cultivated, Nexus Designs Directors Sally Evans and Sonia Simpfendorfer along with the Product Stewardship Centre for Excellence’s John Gertsakis and Katherine Featherstone from the Green Building Council Australia 1.30pm Thursday 17 July 2025 Book Seminar Tickets here https://lnkd.in/gX8f6ns6 NEWNEW Pavilion at Green Design Show Open 10.00am to 5.00pm 16-18 July 2025 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre #cultivated #nexusdesign #greendesignshow #productstewardship #circulardesign #circulareconomy #designerfurniture #interiordesign #sustainabilty #refurbishedfurniture #supportlocal #interior #interiors #interiorarchitecture #architecture #home #furniture #luxuryfurniture 

Introducing NEWNEW by Nexus Designs + Cultivated Everything in NEWNEW has a story to tell and a life yet to live. A temporary structure with a light footprint both literally and metaphorically, NEWNEW challenges you to consider how re-use, refurbishment and responsible decision making can be at the forefront of bespoke interior spaces. Designed to unfold as one moves through it, the NEWNEW pavilion by Nexus Designs + Cultivated takes a thought-provoking approach centred around innovation, exploration and education. Fuelled by curiosity, creativity and responsibility, NEWNEW is a courageous commitment to disrupting the norm by revealing the creative possibilities of design inspired by sustainable material selection. Coming soon to Green Design Show Melbourne 16-18 July 2025 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Register to visit https://lnkd.in/gGhfmrZb Created in conjunction with Mark Tuckey, Crafted Hardwoods, Wild Heather Australia, Artbank and Oslek Flooring. #cultivated #nexusdesigns #greendesignshow #productstewardship #circulardesign #circulareconomy #designerfurniture #interiordesign #sustainability #refurbishedfurniture #supportlocal #interior #interiors #interiorarchitecture #architecture #home #furniture #luxuryfurniture #styling