Design Your Life with Vince Frost
Episodes
Designing Nice Projects with Simone McEwan
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What shapes the feeling of a place? And how does a life spent moving between cities, countries and creative worlds influence the way you design for ot...
Designing growth for a 115-year legacy with Darren Comber
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to lead one of the UK’s oldest and most respected architectural practices into the future? As CEO of Scott Brownrigg, Da...
Designing a life rebuilt with Jeremy Bull
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the true measure of success isn’t scale, but connection? From a childhood spent in expat compounds of Saudi Arabia to founding one...
Designing a life with intention with Gabriel Hendifar
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to create objects that tell stories, that shape how we feel, live, and connect? For Gabriel Hendifar, Artistic Director and Co-Found...
Designing life at scale with Chris Godfrey
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you go from almost joining the Marines, to leading the world’s largest hospitality design firm? Born in Yorkshire and now based in ...
Designing Peter Saville CBE
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to shape culture through design? For Peter Saville CBE, one of the most influential designers of our time, it has always...
Designing Resilience with Rido Pin
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you build a design career that spans continents, cultures and scale, and then redesign your life after a wake-up call? Rido Pin is a Dire...
Designing creative independence with Ajaz Ahmed
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you combine a love of design with a mind for business? For Ajaz Ahmed, it meant building one of the world’s most successful cr...
Designing human connection through art with Paul Cocksedge
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in North London in the 80s, no one was talking about art or design. Life was about conversations with neighbours on the street, the good an...
Designing modern craftsmanship with Elad Yifrach
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Elad Yifrach was growing up his art teacher mother would entertain he and his sisters by setting up art projects on their dining room table. It w...
Designing sustainable architecture with Keith Hempel
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Hempel always knew he was going to be an architect. Growing up in Southern California with a creative mother and a technical father, he seemed d...
Designing a Life in Art with Dr Michael Brand
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a teenager, Dr Michael Brand experienced moving from Canberra to Washington as both traumatic and exciting. It was on a journey back to Australia v...
Designing the feeling of home with Eva-Marie Prineas
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The question of living well is a big one. What does it actually mean? For Eva-Marie Prineas, home is where the heart is, and the way a home is planned...
Designing the Invisible Collection with Lily Froehlicher
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lily Froehlicher inherited a love of luxury from her mother and a passion for travel from her father—interests that shaped her desire to create ...
Designing shoes that influence culture with Chris Law
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once a music-obsessed kid dreaming of designing record covers, Chris Law found his rhythm in the world of sneakers. The iconic shoe designer, known by...
Designing local global architecture with Elie Gamburg
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in public housing on Roosevelt Island in the middle of New York City’s East River, Elie Gamburg went to sleep every night staring at ...
Designing minimalism with John Pawson CBE
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As an architect, are you influenced by the environment you grew up in, even if your work looks vastly different to where you spent your formative year...
Designing the designers' co-op with Jean Lin
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Children of immigrants are often hard workers; they’re under pressure to live up to their parents’ dreams. And it’s often thought th...
Designing immersive interiors with George Yabu & Glenn Pushelberg
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is it better to start a business with a fully fleshed out plan? Or can passion be the driver for success? In the case of George Yabu and Glenn Pushelb...
Designing sensory landscapes with Sacha Coles
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does having a social agenda matter when you’re a landscape architect? At first, you may not think so. But when you truly understand the impact a...
Designing resilient communities with Jocelyn Wyatt
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Being a change-maker in the humanitarian space is universally understood to be driven by the desire to help others. Equally, a love of travel and bein...
Designing the future with Martin Raymond and Chris Sanderson
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re kicking off the new year by hearing from two internationally acclaimed experts in data-driven cross-sector insights and global market inte...
Designing pragmatic architecture with Oliver Tyler
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Designing sustainable tall buildings is no mean feat. Especially when the average lifespan of a commercial office building can be as little as 20 year...
Designing 30 years of Frost* with Vince Frost (Pt. 2)
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This 150th episode, part two, of Design Your Life coincides with the 30th anniversary of Frost*collective. If you tuned in to Episode 150, you’ll kn...
Designing 30 years of Frost* with Vince Frost (Pt. 1)
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 150! This week, we’re turning the mic on our host. In a serendipitous turn of events, this 150th episode of Design Your Life coin...
Designing an Australian Italian affair with Collette Dinnigan
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Collette Dinnigan has a storied history as one of Australia’s must successful fashion designers. Ever. But that’s just one chapter of her creative...
Designing connection through photography with Derek Henderson
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Born in the small town of Hastings, New Zealand, Derek grew up in a working-class family with limited financial means and modest aspirations. His unex...
Designing interactive art with Jason Bruges
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In some families, the parents’ DNA instructs so clearly the way their children think and work that it’s impossible to deny the familial impact. Ja...
Designing a retail revolution with Felicity McGahan
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s economy, people are more considerate about what they’ll spend money on, retailers have to fight to hold or grow their market share. If ...
Designing contemporary art with Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to exist professionally as an artist? Does being business minded compromise an artist’s creativity? If it’s a frank discussion o...
Designing brands that endure with Sean Perkins
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some people take a lifetime to find their true north, the thing they want to spend their days working on. That’s not the case for Sean Perkins. Grow...
Designing brands that Never Sit Still with Mike Tosetto
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Not every path to success is a straight one. Mike Tosetto knows this firsthand. From growing up in Sydney’s Inner West as a skate kid who took photo...
Designing climate resilience with Elizabeth Mossop & Dan Etheridge
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hurricane Katrina and the Northern Rivers Floods may have happened over a decade apart and on opposite sides of the world. But the disasters have a lo...
Designing an Olympic city with Michael Stott
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How much does your environment shape your life, and what can city-makers do to make our lives better? Michael Stott has spent over 25 years crafting n...
Designing organisational psychology with Prof. Frederik Anseel
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In life and in business, how big a part does luck play in our success? And are our good ideas really good at all? Professor Frederik Anseel is the new...
Designing independent magazine culture with Jeremy Leslie
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 80s, Stiff Records, the British independent Punk Rock and New Wave record label, had an open-door policy. You could walk in and pick up posters...
Designing People Architecture with Domenic Alvaro
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You could argue a lot of kids grow up with a love of drawing. This one knew he wanted to be an architect in high school. When his older brother brough...
Designing design with Sir John and Lady Frances Sorrell
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Having a knock-out creative career five decades long is one thing. Setting up a charity to inspire the same creativity in the next generations is anot...
Designing Dinosaur Designs
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
People are considered lucky when they find something they’re skilled at and love, then make it their vocation. Growing up with a parent they’ve in...
Designing The Local Project with Aidan Anderson
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Being driven is one thing. But being driven by trauma is another. It’s a special kind of motivation, and when combined with a competitive nature and...
Designing with history and make-believe with Sibella Court
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s an art to bringing history into modern creativity as more than a reference. Sibella Court is adept at it. The creative director, author an...
Designing a sense of surplus with Viggo Haremst
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For a small country with a small population, the Danes are incredibly well-known on the global stage as highly skilled when it comes to design. In Vig...
Designing wellbeing at work with Dr. Esther Sternberg
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How much do the environments we inhabit impact our health and wellbeing? And does our emotional state impact our physical health? Dr. Esther Sternberg...
Designing with satire with Paul Davis
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of life on earth in the context of the universe, being human can seem absurd. That’s what British artist and illustrator Paul Davis th...
Designing brand reputation with John Rushworth
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The craft of graphic design has changed dramatically since the 80s. Computers. The popularisation of branding. Over the past four plus decades John Ru...
Designing timeless books with Emilia Terragni
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the past decade, the debate about the role of books in our increasingly digital world has been a hot one. This devotee of the printed form is unequ...
Designing inspiring spatial experiences with Carlo Giannasca
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Which parts of our heritage and childhood form who we are and impact what we do in later life? If you spend your childhood wallpapering your bedroom w...
Designing a better London with Peter Murray OBE
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Buckminster Fuller and Cedric Price were mentors when Peter Murray OBE was studying architecture in the 1960s. Peter Cook and the Archigram Group were...
Designing a Good Weekend with Katrina Strickland
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The media landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade. One person who has lived through the changes with her dream job intact is Katrina S...
Designing integrated architecture with Daniel Goldberg
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Landing a job at the London architecture firm you idolise right out of college is a good sign for any young architect, particularly one from another c...
Designing a decade in Afghanistan with Andrew Quilty
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After inheriting a Nikon F3 camera from his photographer uncle in his teens, Andrew Quilty set about casually documenting life. Later, when he was stu...
Designing ideas to life with Ant Donovan
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not many kids dream of designing a billboard one day. It was at age 11, when he picked up his first commission from the printer (business cards for hi...
Designing a career in the arts with Kym Elphinstone
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian art scene has dramatically evolved over the past decade. A place that was once seen as belonging to wealthy collectors has opened up to...
Designing diversity in Architecture with Paul Monaghan
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Architects are often drawn to designing buildings that are iconic because they’re incredibly sculptural or different. But it’s designing what he c...
Designing healthy buildings with Jeff Provan
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Warehouse living gained popularity in the 60s and 70s in major urban centres, particularly New York. Industrial buildings were empty, and artists love...
Designing transformational change with Stephanie Bown
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whether we realise it or not, when we’re at work we’re promoting ourselves every day through our personal brands. The way we position ourselves pr...
Designing sound for brands with Dan Higson & Nick West
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Music is emotional, and sound is a powerful tool for tuning in to feelings and memories. Music helps us recall people, places and experiences. A song ...
Designing with shadows with Dion Horstmans
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Resilience isn’t always a quality that’s obvious to the people who display it. Often, resilience is survival. It’s resilience combined with a po...
Designing what buildings do with Quino Holland
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Buildings pose a huge problem when it comes to carbon, and the architects of today with a conscience are grappling with the environmental debt of the ...
Designing a culture driven business with Ben Kerr
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Architects and building materials are synonymous, but an inquisitive entrepreneur with a passion for using natural materials to create spaces with sou...
Designing from the inside out with Daniel Boddam
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not many people can say they grew up in an architecturally designed home furnished with modern classics featuring black lacquered ceilings and slides ...
Designing dynamic facades with Troy Donovan
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Facade Design doesn’t have the high profile of architecture, but its impact on how we experience our cities and buildings, as well as their environm...
Designing a life dedicated to craft with Bill Amberg
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Having one of your designs in the permanent collection of the V&A in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York sets the tone for someo...
Designing the future of how we work with Ryan Anderson
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Designing the future of how we live and work is a hot topic, and one that has businesses worldwide wondering how they can get people back into offices...
Designing a life to be Thankful for with Kim McDonnell
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Designing gratitude to create social and economic change. Being thankful can change our entire perspective on the world. It has been proven to improve...
Designing for impact with Kevin Finn
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Working to have a positive impact is one thing. Working to have positive impact at scale is another. It’s a pursuit that needs an attitude of aggres...
Designing creative energy with Cat Burgess
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To Cat Burgess, energy is everything. It’s how you inspire the people around you, and it’s how you align your personal resources to the things you...
Designing experiences through music with Anton Monsted
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Music has a powerful impact on our emotions, and can amplify what we're experiencing in a way we’re often not aware of. When watching a film, someti...
Designing experiences through scent with Craig Andrade
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does scent impact our mood and mind? Why is it important to design for all the senses? And what do you do when you realised you’ve designed a li...
Designing the ideal mind and body state with Tim Brown, Meditation Expert
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do the mind, body and emotions work? How can we fine tune them for dynamic activity in today’s overstimulating world? And how does a rugby-playi...
Designing creative businesses with Emily Cohen
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up with a dynamic, upbeat and straight-talking New York City businessman for a father is one thing. Building a career as a highly successful n...
Designing massive action with Bruce Mau | Vodcast
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What role does design have to play in creating a successful and liveable world for future generations? And how does life-centred design come into this...
Designing positive change through action with Greenpeace Aus Pacific CEO David Ritter
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us grow up with a basic understanding of Greenpeace and the work they do. But being aware of the organisation's first ‘creative confrontatio...
Designing context-based architecture with Adam Haddow | Live podcast
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainability, equality, and connection to country in contemporary Australian architecture are often spoken about. Commonly they’re thought of as n...
Designing creative confidence with Richard Holman
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All creatives suffer from some level of self-doubt, imposter syndrome or lack of inspiration. It’s unavoidable. The good news is, it’s possible to...
Designing a long healthy life with Dr. Norman Swan
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We know making lifestyle changes can impact the quality and length of our lives, but which are the changes that work? Is vitamin C ageing? How importa...
Designing Tough Turban - D&AD x DYL
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A turban that looks and functions like a regular turban, but is as tough as a motorcycle helmet? It exists, and the product is an open-source design a...
Designing One House to Save Many - D&AD x DYL
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marijke Spain is part of the creative team at Leo Burnett who conceived the award-winning ‘One House to Save Many’ project for Suncorp Group. It’...
Designing for impact with D&AD Chairman Tim Lindsay
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered how D&AD came to be, what the organisation does outside of awards, and why it’s important for not just the design community, b...
Designing corporate activism with Patagonia Aus & NZ Director Dane O'Shanassy
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Working on things you care about, close to the people you love, in a business with ethics and morals aligned with your own seems a straightforward amb...
Designing Technogym with Co-founder Pierluigi Alessandri
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Being in the business of helping people live healthier and happier is quite a goal, but the Alessandri brothers have done it. By elevating the importa...
Designing global action on climate change with Craig Leeson
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can government and industry have the most impact when it comes to climate change? Or is it up to the individual to take action? Craig Leeson is ...
Designing community with Cliff Ho
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you put people before profit, will your business be a bigger success? Cliff Ho thinks so. But you need to be profitable and self-sustainable, too. ...
Designing an impact driven business with Sasha Titchkosky
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Titchkosky is on a mission. If everything goes to plan the Co-founder and CEO of Koskela, the furniture and homewares business she founded and...
Designing shipping that's good for the world with James Chin Moody
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When your work takes you outside the boundaries of our atmosphere, the Earth and her limits come into sharp focus. James Chin Moody is co-founder and ...
Designing future-proof businesses with B Lab Aus & NZ CEO Andrew Davies
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible for businesses to balance their responsibilities to people and the planet, while also making a profit? As the CEO of B Lab Austr...
Designing the ultimate ride with David Trewern
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are we all born with the same potential for success and happiness? Is it just a matter of being lucky enough to fall into what we’re supposed to...
Designing a better world - best of 2021
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As 2021 comes to a close, we’d love to share with you some truly inspiring moments we’ve had on the podcast this year. From Karl Fe...
Designing the world's best electric boats with Konrad Bergström
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When you grow up in a family of inventors, you learn no idea is a bad idea, and anything is possible. With confidence in the knowledge that mistakes a...
Designing a balanced life with Spencer Frost
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you recognise a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a moment you can’t put a price on, right at the time it’s happening? How do you kno...
Designing plastic free oceans with Sarah Beard
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The smallest change can make the biggest difference, especially when it starts a groundswell. This was the case for Sarah Beard – ...
Designing Aquabumps with Eugene Tan
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you've ever seen a picture of Bondi Beach, you've seen Eugene Tan's work. He's the founder of the infamous photography studio, Aquabumps – a ...
Designing sensible buildings with Koichi Takada
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In another special edition episode for our architecture series, from Lego to Skyscrapers, Vince speaks to visionary architect Koichi Takada. &nb...
Designing a life dedicated to science with Melissa Cristina Márquez
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our planet works tirelessly to keep us alive, so why aren’t we doing more to protect it? Home to dolphins, surfers and tonnes of plastic –...
Designing from a place of playful ponder with Flack Studio
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a special edition episode for our architecture series, from Lego to Skyscrapers, Vince speaks to David Flack and Mark Robinson of Flack Studio. &nb...
Designing a world champion with Ewan Jaspan.
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Home to dolphins, surfers and tonnes of plastic – oceans are both healing places and places in need of healing. ‘Tide for Change’ ex...
Designing Africa's first surf brand with Nick Dutton
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Home to dolphins, surfers and tonnes of plastic: oceans are both healing places and places in need of healing. ‘Tide for Change’ explores ...
Designing mega skyscrapers with Karl Fender
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the final episode in our Architecture Series – From Lego to Skyscrapers, Vince speaks with the profoundly significant architect, Karl Fender...
Designing homes that inspire feeling with Alexandra Donohoe Church
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you design homes that inspire feeling? In this episode of our Architecture Series – From Lego to Skyscrapers, Vince speaks to the f...
Designing a retreat from the world with Rob Brown
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of our Architecture Series – From Lego to Skyscrapers, Vince speaks to the co-founder of Casey Brown Architecture, Rob Brown.&nb...