Mix Interiors: The Magazine for Commercial Interior Design
Mix Interiors is a British trade magazine for commercial interior design and architecture. Published bi-monthly since 2000 by Mix Media Ltd, with its office at Unit 2 Abito, 85 Greengate, Manchester, England, it describes itself as the magazine for commercial interior design and is widely presented as a leading UK title for the sector. Its world is not domestic decoration but the design of workplaces, hotels, hospitality venues and other commercial spaces.
Mix Interiors is also more than a magazine. It is the home of the Mix Awards, long known as the Mixology Awards, an awards programme recognising projects, products and people in commercial interiors, with events in London and Manchester. Print, digital publishing and events together make Mix a platform that has helped shape the commercial interiors industry for more than two decades.
Overview
Mix Interiors is published six times a year. Each issue combines design case studies, interviews, product coverage and industry news, as summarised in this directory's listing for the title. Its approach, as described in media directories, is to focus consistently on the real world of commercial interiors and to consider the broader commercial property chain, giving its reader community insight into where the market is heading.
That real-world focus distinguishes it from purely visual design magazines. Commercial interiors must work for occupiers, employees, guests and investors as well as look good in photographs. Budgets, building constraints, sustainability, wellbeing and changing patterns of work all shape a project, and Mix Interiors covers design in that practical context.
History and Founding
Mix was launched early in 2000, according to media directory descriptions of the title, and has been published bi-monthly since 2000. It carved out a niche in the architectural, design and facilities market by concentrating on commercial interiors at a time when workplace and hospitality design were becoming distinct specialisms in their own right.
The business behind the magazine developed over time. Mix Group was created in 2013 from the merger of Manchester-based Out There Events and London-based publishing and events firm Mix Media, according to reporting by Prolific North. That combination of a Manchester events business and a London publishing and events business helps explain the title's strong presence in both cities, with headquarters described as Manchester and London and its contact address in Manchester's Greengate area.
Marcie Incarico was a central figure in that story. She founded Out There Events, became a leading figure in Mix Group and Mix Interiors, and was remembered in tributes reported by Prolific North as having built Mix Interiors into a successful business she was immensely proud of. Her husband Martin Mongan was himself a former managing director of Mix Interiors, described in the same reporting as a commercial interior design bible.
Publisher and Ownership
Mix Interiors is published by Mix Media Ltd, part of the Mix operation that runs the magazine, its digital channels and its awards. The magazine's editorial design credits list Mix Media Ltd as publisher, with the operation based in Manchester and London. Its Manchester address is Unit 2 Abito, 85 Greengate, Manchester, M3 7NA, and magazine subscription and advertising enquiries are handled from Manchester with a 0161 contact number.
As an independent specialist publisher, Mix is focused entirely on one industry. That focus is its strength: its staff, contributors, advertisers and event guests all come from the commercial interiors world, and the magazine's reputation is built inside that community rather than with a general readership.
Editorial Content and Sections
Design case studies are the core of Mix Interiors. Projects are presented with generous photography and an explanation of what the design was trying to achieve, how the space is used and which products and materials were specified. Interviews with designers, architects, manufacturers and occupiers give the people behind projects a voice and explore the thinking behind the work.
Product coverage is equally important in a trade title. Manufacturers of furniture, lighting, surfaces, flooring, acoustics, planting and workplace technology use the magazine to reach the specifiers who choose their products, and readers use its product pages and company profiles to keep up with what is available. Industry news, appointments, company developments and trends coverage complete the mix.
The magazine's design has itself been a subject of professional attention. A published editorial design case study describes a redesign built on a twelve-column, print-first grid, with feature headlines treated as a typographic response to each article and colour and composition responding to editorial character. For a magazine whose readers design spaces for a living, the craft of its own pages is part of its credibility.
Audience and Readership
Mix Interiors is a trade and business-to-business title with an international scope, written in English for the UK commercial interiors community. Its readers include interior designers, architects, furniture and product manufacturers, dealers, facilities and workplace professionals, developers and end-user occupiers who commission commercial spaces.
That audience reads for professional reasons: to see competitors' and collaborators' projects, to find products, to understand client thinking and to follow where workplace, hospitality, public sector and build-to-rent design are heading. The awards judging panels illustrate the breadth of that community, drawing on designers, architects, academics, end users, furniture specialists and colour experts.
The Mix Awards and Mixology
The awards are the magazine's most visible extension. Long branded as Mixology, and now presented as the Mix Awards, the programme recognises the best projects, products and people in commercial interiors. Mixology North, the northern edition, was described in 2023 as being in its fifteenth year, recognising commercial interiors from across the North of the UK, with winners announced at Manchester Central. A Mix Awards North event is also listed for Manchester in December 2026, with judges announced for that year.
Holding major events in both London and Manchester reflects the geography of the industry and of Mix itself. London is the largest centre for commercial design, but Manchester and the North have a substantial design, property and workplace community of their own, and Mix's Manchester base gives it genuine standing in both places rather than treating the North as an afterthought.
Print and Digital Editions
Mix Interiors remains a print magazine, published bi-monthly, with subscriptions handled directly by the publisher. Alongside print, its website publishes news, project and product coverage, company profiles, event information and award announcements, and a newsletter offers curated highlights and news from the world of commercial interior design.
Digital publishing lets Mix cover a fast-moving industry between print issues and gives its awards programme a year-round presence, from judge announcements and entry deadlines to finalist and winner coverage. Social and content roles within the editorial team, including a Content and Social Editor, show how central those channels have become to the title's work.
Notable Editors and Contributors
Recent editorial credits for the magazine list Harry McKinley as Managing Editor and Chloé Petersen Snell as Deputy Editor, with Charlotte Slinger in an editorial and social role and Ellie Foster as Editorial Assistant. In September 2026, trade directory reporting noted Charlotte Slinger's promotion from Editorial and Social Executive to Content and Social Editor at the magazine, a small detail that confirms both the team's structure and its digital emphasis.
Contributors extend well beyond the staff team. Designers and architects write about and discuss their own projects, manufacturers contribute product knowledge, and award judges such as architect Roger Stephenson OBE, chair of judges for Mixology North, lend the programme senior professional standing.
Recent Developments
Mix Interiors has recently refreshed its visual identity. A case study published in September 2026 documented a new brand identity led by designer Marçal Prats, working closely with editors Harry McKinley and Chloé Petersen Snell, creating a system intended to run across the print magazine, digital channels and the Mix Awards, and linked to the title's twenty-fifth anniversary period. The same designer's editorial work describes a bespoke approach to the magazine's typography and layout.
For a title launched in 2000, reaching a quarter-century while retaining a clear niche is a notable achievement in trade publishing. Mix Interiors has done it by staying close to one industry, combining a bi-monthly magazine with a strong awards programme, and keeping bases in both Manchester and London, the two cities that anchor its community.
