The Design Files is Australia’s most popular digital design publication, edited by Lucy Feagins. The site started as a simple blog in early 2008, back when Lucy was working a a set dresser in the film industry and an interiors stylist.
Here are answers to some of our frequently asked questions. For anything else, contact us!
Thank you for interest in advertising with The Design Files. Please visit our advertising page for details, then contact our partnerships team at ads@thedesignfiles.net to request a media kit with options and rates. We’ll get back to you ASAP!
You can find answers to all the FAQs about our biannual print magazine, including how to manage your subscription and where to find stockists, here.
Yes, we do! For submission guidelines regarding home tours, interviews, products, and creative businesses/individuals doing amazing things, please head to our contact page for details. We’d love to hear from you!
Yes regularly publish submissions of completed residential architecture, interiors, and gardens projects from Australia and New Zealand. Please head to our contact page for details on how to submit.
Our On The Market section features sponsored stories about properties for sale across Australia. Please get in touch with our account manager Georgie for a media kit featuring pricing and inclusions: georgie@thedesignfiles.net. We are a small team so please note all properties are subject to editorial approval — we sadly can’t feature them all!
Profiling Australian creatives is at the heart of what we do. Please head to our contact page for details on how to submit – you may be a great fit for a Studio Visit.
We’re a really tiny office, and don’t have the resources to offer internships at the moment. Sorry!
The Design Files’ original content and photos are copyright protected. Please email us before reposting our content on other publications, websites, or Instagram. You may share our images on Pinterest using the credit ‘via thedesignfiles.net’ and including a photographer credit if available.
Generating original photography for this website is a really huge investment,and for this reason, we are quite careful about where our imagery ends up. We often allow independent creatives and small business owners to use our photographs on their personal websites, but this is assessed on a case by case basis.
We don’t usually allow our photos to be published in other publications (either online or in print) without remuneration.Please email us with your photo usage request, and we’ll do our best to assist.