Somebody Drew That.

I am super excited to welcome the fabulous and super talented Melbourne based architect Byron George of Russell and George. Hooray! You may recall my previous interview with Byron (click right here), and I also interviewed his parter Ryan...

Concept Mood Boards | Bohemian Boutique Hotel.

I decided to do something which I hadn't really done before on the blog - I wanted to share some of my recent work with you guys in the hope that you will find it interesting. I was recently approached about designing an interior for a...

Thin Black Lines.

I don't know if I ever shared with you guys that I started teaching design this year. You know, I had a lot of spare time on my hands and I thought - what the heck, might as well. . In any case, despite the added pressure teaching has...

Design Free Thursday | World War II Bunkers.

And so the somber mood continues here on yellowtrace, even on Design Free Thursday which typically embraces the fun, the whacky and the irreverent side of life. These images caught my eye a few weeks ago, and I never realised that I would...

Out of Sorts.

This post was originally going to be about another super cool design-y thing, but it just didn't 'feel' right. So I changed it 4 or 5 times, until I realised that design just isn't all that important to me today and that my thoughts are...

To My Fellow Citizens of The Planet.

Dear fellow citizens of the Planet, I couldn’t bring myself to write a ‘normal’ post today. I feel deeply concerned and affected by the number, the frequency and the severity of the natural disasters which have recently struck Japan,...

I Think I’m Turning Japanese…

So much could be said about Japanese design and their aesthetic. Japanese sense of style is much loved and copied the world over, often fused with other elements and styles. But nobody quite knows how to do Japanese design like the...

Sharing The L.O.V.E. | Art Mash-up.

Hello and welcome to another yellowtrace week. Hooray for that! Now, as you can imagine, my e-mail inbox gets quite a workout these days, with many weird and wonderful submissions from all over the place. So many clever people out there,...

Importance of Trust.

...as designers, our primary job as 'artists' and 'creative business owners' is to build trust with our clients. Without trust, our path is difficult, if not impossible. Trust with clients is built over a period of time and gradually, just...