Workplace design planned around how the team actually works.
Headcount, meeting demand, quiet work, storage, staff areas and client spaces are resolved before the finishes and furniture are developed.
Workplace interior design ↗
FORJ CREATIVE / MELBOURNE
Interior design and digital, based in Melbourne.
FORJ Creative plans and designs workplaces, shops, venues and homes, then documents them so your builder prices what was actually designed. Interior Design is led by Sam Fossati.
Blackhearts & Sparrows ElwoodRetail · Elwood, VIC
01 / PLAN FIRST
Start with the plan.
Before we get into finishes, we work through what needs to fit, how people move through the space and what the existing tenancy gives us to work with.
Get the layout right and the rest of the project gets easier: the joinery has a wall to sit on, the lighting knows where the furniture is, and nobody is moving the staff kitchen after it has been priced.
- Led by
- Sam Fossati, Design Director
- Experience
- Nine years across commercial interiors
- Builder
- Your builder, or one introduced from our network
- Based
- Melbourne, working across Victoria
MATERIAL / DETAIL
Finishes and joinery, settled before pricing.
We draw the joinery, finishes and key details before pricing, so your builder prices what's drawn and has far less to guess.
M01Glazed tile and terrazzo floor path
M02Tile band set into the timber floor
M03Terrazzo against glazed tile
M04Timber veneer meeting a painted counter panel
Blackhearts & Sparrows Elwood. Designed by Sam Fossati in a previous role, before FORJ was established.
02 / SELECTED WORK
See all work ↗Rooms Sam has designed
Workplaces, shops and venues, built and in concept.
03 / COMMERCIAL INTERIORS
Commercial interiors, sector by sector.
Commercial interior design in Melbourne ↗Retail design starts with how customers move, what they need to see and how staff operate the store.
Product display, the counter, stockroom access and the path to the back of the store are worked out before finishes, joinery and furniture.
Retail interior design ↗
Hospitality design built around the way the venue operates.
Covers, service path, back-of-house relationships, furniture and customer movement are resolved before the material layer is developed.
Hospitality interior design ↗
Test the tenancy before you commit to the full project.
A test fit checks whether the floor can support the headcount, rooms, circulation and operational requirements before the lease or wider design scope progresses.
Test fits and feasibility ↗04 / HOW WE WORK
Why FORJ for Interior Design
Start at the stage you need.
Start with a test fit, a planning exercise, a concept stage or a full Interior Design scope, depending on where the project is up to.
Senior design stays close.
Sam leads the design work and stays involved as the project moves from planning into documentation and builder queries.
Designed with delivery in mind.
Much of Sam's commercial experience was inside a design-and-build business, so he is used to seeing where drawings, pricing and site decisions can come unstuck.
Work with the right builder.
FORJ can introduce builders from its network or work with your preferred builder. The network is an option, not a condition.
05 / RESIDENTIAL
Plan the home before filling it.
Renovations, apartments, kitchens, bathrooms and multi-room interiors in Melbourne. We sort the layout first, then the joinery, lighting, finishes and furniture, so the whole home is designed to work together.
RenovationsApartmentsKitchens and bathroomsJoinery and finishesFurniture and FF&E
06 / DIGITAL
Ecommerce, websites, paid media and SEO.
For established businesses: the store or site, Google and Meta Ads, and SEO, looked at together. If an ad is working but the product page is losing customers, more ad budget isn't the first thing we change.
Talk to the Digital team
BlueAntDigital work
