International award-winning Australian designer and author Jamie Durie started his design practice 21 years ago in 1998. Since then he and his team at Durie Design have received over 36 international design awards including the coveted gold medal at the Chelsea flower show in London and further gold medals received in Singapore, Tokyo, Auckland NZ, Melbourne, and Durie’s place of birth, Sydney.

In 2001 Durie made his entrance into furniture design when he and his team were asked to design various pieces of custom furniture for several upmarket hotels and resorts first in Spain, with several more in Asia, Australia and the Middle East. After launching several design collaborations in Europe, USA and Australia his furniture is now retailed worldwide through his multiple partnerships.

Jamie started his television career as host of the 6-time Logie award winning lifestyle juggernaut Backyard Blitz. Jamie has hosted over 52 primetime design shows worldwide aired in over 90 countries, and has hosted The Outdoor Room, HGTV Green Home, HGTV Dream Home TV shows among many others since his debut as a regular celebrity designer guest for 4 years on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Today, Durie is the new judge in House Rules and a regular contributor of Better Homes and Gardens. Durie is also the host of Habitus House of the Year and the new host of Australia by Design.

In honour of his work over the last two decades, Jamie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2013 for services to the environment & design, while in 2004, he received the Centenary Medal for services to the environment, television, and the community.

As the Managing Director and owner of Futurespace, Angela helps clients create future focused, innovative, intelligent and practical physical spaces that inspire and add value.

For more than two decades Angela has worked with significant global and Australian businesses to develop design strategies that directly relate to a specific business, to drive innovative design solutions and to develop responsive accommodation results.

She regularly presents on innovation in design around the world including at 2016 Alberta Architect’s Association Conference in Canada, and the 2017 Greenlam Design For Tomorrow Conference in Bangkok, Thailand where she shared examples of how Futurespace is leading the world by disrupting the way people work, learn and live.

In 2012 Angela was awarded with the NAWIC NSW CBRE Businesswoman of the Year Award. In addition, in 2016 she was named a finalist in the Women’s Agenda Women’s Leadership Awards.

Terri Winter is a wife, mother, designer and Australian entrepreneur who is fuelled by a passion to unearth the best designs on the planet and share them with a wider audience. 

Terri believes that creative design is everywhere and works tirelessly to bring top3 fans an edited selection of the very best. She’s just like a kid on Christmas morning when new products arrive in the warehouse — spurring on the hunt for the next amazing piece to add to the top3 collection. 

Terri’s eye for innovative design has made her a sought after leader and mentor in the design community. She is a judge on the Australian International Design Awards, the Tasmanian Design Awards and the Design Discovery Awards in Chicago. Terri was also a judge for the Bombay Sapphire Design, and has had various appearances on design panels like ‘The Iron Designer’, Belle Magazine’s ‘House and Apartment of the Year’ and the Chicago Homewares Design Awards.

When she’s not searching for innovations for top3, you can find Terri cheering on her two sons, Jay and Zac, from the sidelines at their soccer matches or walking her dog, Shadow, with her husband, Bernd.

Dennis Hall is the founder and Managing Director of Maxton Fox Furniture Systems.

Maxton Fox is a privately owned and proudly Australian business that has been designing and manufacturing commercial furniture and joinery systems since the 1960s.

Dennis began his professional career at the tender age of 15 as an apprentice carpenter and joiner in the building industry. However, his interest soon turned to upholstery (the family business) commencing night school to gain his qualifications.

At the age of 20, Dennis took over his father’s business, Hall & Etches (which was a small re-upholstery business in Sydney). This event set the course for a working collaboration with Benwick Furniture, a chair frame manufacturer, that would eventually lead to the formation of Tudor Furniture. This formidable pairing of companies (with complementary skillsets) led to numerous contracts including large scale projects for the NSW Government.

In the 1990s, in response to the design-led and ergonomic movement, Maxton Fox was launched, and the rest is history.

Headquartered at the factory premises in Sydney’s Western Suburbs, Maxton Fox services projects and customers throughout Australia, working in close partnership with project teams across a variety of sectors such as: Commercial Workplace, Residential, Education, Hospitality and Transportation.

Dennis continues to be passionate about Australian manufacturing and is buoyed by the growing interest and demand for Australia’s design expertise and innovation.

Sue Carr is widely recognised by many as one of Australia’s preeminent interior designers. In a life dedicated to improving the Australian design landscape, Sue is renowned as being one of this country’s most successful and prolific design talents.

A thinker, innovator, designer and teacher, Sue is recognised as synonymous with the evolution of interior design in Australia. Her significant contribution to the advancement of a modernist interior and architectural aesthetic and her determination and passion to see design recognised as a vital instrument of how we live our lives has remained a core driver from when she first enrolled at RMIT’s interior design school at 18 years of age.

Sue’s story is incredibly fascinating from how she nearly donned a lab coat for a life amongst test tubes and Bunsen burners in the study of Science, to how she managed to convince a generation of men that being an interior designer did not mean she was there to do the curtains and cushions. Having initially studied to be an applied chemist ultimately it was the science of how we live that fascinated her the most.

In her forty years practising interior design, she has observed, and often anticipated, great changes in the way people live their lives with her work being admired and sought not only in Australia but Internationally.

Of note is Sue’s extraordinary contributions to the interior design industry, and for her driving force within Australian modern design lineage and heritage. Her work has helped to create an unprecedented cultural awareness for design in this country that few are able to match.

With so many high-calibre built environments that have come into fruition over the last 40 years, Sue is regularly acknowledged for her outstanding trajectory of work, and the numerous careers of others she has in some way nurtured. Sue’s work as a practitioner and educator has been instrumental in redefining interior design as not simply an afterthought but as a core discipline and vital component to architecture. She has an innate understanding of space, form, light and materials, and approaches every project with the belief that design has the power to make a positive difference to people’s lives. Sue Carr is the founder and continues to be the Principal Director of Carr, a Melbourne-based interior design and architecture practice representing over 40 years of work.

Tanya is in her 19th year with Halliday + Baillie, 14 years as Co-Owner. Starting in Sales, then into Sales management, then into partnership in 2005.

Tanya’s sole background prior to H+B has been Sales + Sales management representing product to the specification market.

In 2005, Tanya moved to Australia.  Being a New Zealand company H+B still had very little presence in Australia. Tanya took what was then still a very unknown company to the great heights that it is today.

Tanya was deeply involved in all aspects of the setting up of the company and very much on the sales side of the business to grow it.

The Halliday + Baillie brand in Australia (inside the Architectural Door hardware fittings market) is very highly respected and unashamedly high end.

This has not happened by accident however. This is entirely on purpose.

Having a specific + well-known brand through advertising, service, sponsoring the right awards, with specific notoriety and market position.

Tanya has insisted on all of the above and has achieved this with the help of her Australian team and having high quality product coming from our NZ manufacturing.

Next exciting moves for the company is manufacturing here in Australia.

Sarah Stephenson, Senior Brand Communications Manager, Wattyl and Sherwin-Williams Company, is a highly regarded forecaster, educator and presenter in the world of colour and design.

Noted for her insightful colour predictions and often quoted in the country’s leading lifestyle and design publications, Sarah brings an unrivalled level of creative and strategic expertise to the world of colour in design.

A former teacher at the prestigious International School of Colour and Design, Sarah had a distinguished career in television production in London prior to channelling her extensive knowledge and qualifications in colour into her current marketing and communications role with Wattyl.

Rajesh Nandan is the Founder, Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the design industry’s premier regional media house, Indesign Media Asia Pacific. After acquiring his first magazine at the age of 22 in 1993, Raj continued to launch a suite of magazine titles throughout the 90s which would become the foundation for his boutique publishing house in 2000 under the flagship title, Indesign. In 2010, the company moved further throughout Asia with digital and print titles in Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong – including welcoming India to the fold in the very near future. The root of his success lies in Raj being a very early proponent of the potential for digital platforms to support our region’s creative talent.

With print and digital assets under the brands of Indesign, Habitus, Cubes, Lookbox, Architecture & Design, and DQ, the international design world collaborates with Indesign Media through experiential events throughout the region – inspiring the design communities in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Singapore, Hong Kong in previous years and Indonesia in the years ahead.

Raj has since lent is curatorial eye for several boards and juries including the RedDot Design Awards Judging Panel, the Strategic Advisory Board of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers, the Advisory Board for Emergency Architects Australia, and is also an Ambassador for Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific, an Official Judge for the International Design Awards Los Angeles, and for the Good Design Awards Australia.

After recently launching the INDE.Awards – the Asia Pacific region’s largest and most powerful interior design and architecture awards – to continue Indesign Media’s commitment to unflagging industry stewardship, this year Raj Nandan and Indesign Media embark upon tackling new challenges presented by the changing nature of the region’s design, architecture, engineering and property sectors. This year, Indesign Media brings Asia Pacific a new event, FRONT, that finally unites all stakeholders in the AECO supply chain, bringing to a crowning point over two decades of building a more co-operative, more intelligent and ultimately stronger outlook for our region’s creative talent on the global stage.