Design Free Thursday | Should I Work For Free?

All you freelancers and small business owners out there - have you ever been asked to do "a quick favour" for someone, otherwise known as "work for FREE"? Of course you have. It happens to me... ummmm... at least once a day. On average. I...

Aichinger House by Hertl Architekten | Austria.

It is not that often one can see a building which challenges the conventional to this extent. I mean, I personally always thought that curtains belonged on the inside of buildings, but Austrian practice Hertl Architekten clearly had a...

Outside Video-Projections | Ibon Mainar.

I wanted to kick off this year with these incredible high-res video projections created by the Spanish artist Ibon Mainar titled ‘Proyecciones en el Exterior’. Ibon uses outdoor landscapes as his canvas on which he projects lights that...

Thoughts/ Tangents + Books/ Magazines | 2010 Archive.

01 | On Inspiration And Honing Your Design Instincts. 02 | In Between Spaces. 03 | Why Is Beautiful And Inspiring Commercial Design So Scarce? 04 | What Do Criminals, Entrepreneurs & Designers Have In Common? 05 | A Year Ago Today. 06 |...

Aaaaand CUT. Happy Holidays!

  Goodness me. Where has the year gone? Does anybody know? It’s frightening. I am too excited for words about 2011, I feel like jumping out of my own skin. And I can’t even begin to tell you how much I am looking forward to sharing it...

Some Thoughts on Christmas.

  Ok, so I've seriously been resisting writing this post for weeks now, as I'm not so keen on generating any kind of hate mail. But this 'thing' is just dying to come out, and I simply have no choice but to tell you how I really feel...

In Between Spaces.

Every time I flick through my bulging collection of design images, I surprise myself with how many images of non-desrcript spaces I seem to collect. You know the spaces I'm talking about - not quite a corridor, nor a vestibule. Not exactly...

A Year Ago Today…

Yes, it is true. A year ago today I wrote my very first post. Little did I know back then how attached I would become to this little blog, how many wonderful and loyal (and really, really, ridiculously good looking) readers it would...

On Inspiration and Honing Your Design Instincts.

Good morning peeps. How was everyone's weekend? Awesome...? Ah, that's great to hear! I was very lucky to watch Powderfinger's last ever gig in Sydney on Saturday night, which was part of their farewell tour - and I've got to tell you that...