Shortlisted Awards Entries

Platform3 - Sailteam Pty Ltd / rptecture architects

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

The Box Hill train stations have a vivid and colorful history that has been the source of inspiration for the urban and unique bistro, "Platform 3". Box Hill's original station opened in 1882. During 1895, a large market opened next to the station. The early industrial feat and social market feel has been the starting point for the concept of Platform 3. It has adopted a design that celebrates and offers homage to the history of the area.

Platform 3 is situated right in the heart of the century old Box Hill Centro Shopping Center. Conceived as an elusive waiting lounge, sitting above the railway station, the new ‘platform’ offers a room for transit for the commuters. It is a unique place that is more than just a bistro but a place that locals can relate to and feel being a part of.

The success of this project was based on the place-making approach to design and looked beyond the brief. The idea of materialism was challenged with the strong use of industrial and hard wearing materials to reflect the history of the area whilst being set in a shopping center environment.

Beef Essentials iPhone app - Meat and Livestock Australia / Reactive

Digital Experience - Mobile

MLA wanted to help consumers cook better beef, every time. They identified a gap between beef products and cooking knowledge among its customers- particularly the younger, tech savvy generation and they wanted to bridge the gap using technology the audience uses at their fingertips.

Richmond Football Club - Richmond Football Club / Canyon

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Richmond Football Club was ready for a new identity. An identity that captured the essence of this famous club, reflected its core values and while consistent with the past, was clearly focused on a successful future.

Brightgreen D900 Cube - Brightgreen

Product Design - Lighting

Premium LED lighting company, Brightgreen, have designed the world’s first square beamed downlight, titled D900 Cube. The light’s unique square beam offers unparalleled control and efficiency for the architecture, building and design industries.

Brightgreen’s D900 Cube was designed with the goal of creating an energy efficient lighting solution that not only provided adequate brightness comparable to halogens, but also was architecturally and aesthetically satisfying.

Through harnessing LED technology, these objectives were not only achieved, but were hugely surpassed, with a square beam downlight that exceeds the brightness of halogens and sits atop the industry efficacy chart.

The D900 Cube’s square beam means fewer lights are required to achieve the same lighting levels as circular downlights, offering greater efficiency.

Its square shape prevents light beams overlapping and eliminates dark corners forming, guiding light to follow the straight edges of a room and evenly dispersing light.

This groundbreaking design resulted in high praise from architects and lighting concept designers, who finally have the tools available that they have been craving to create lighting designs that truly paint rooms with light without dull spots or shadows.

Hasti Bala @ The Carlton - The Carlton Hotel

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

The Carlton Hotel is a quirky, 100 year old, five level building, situated in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. Since the buildings renovations began in 2006, under new owner Tracey Lester, it has quickly become a popular city institution.

Formerly a seedy late night bar and rooming house for the seriously down and out, the eclectic new interior design has secured a varied and regular patronage from cool and arty tipplers to corporate clients looking to be treated to the eccentric décor.

Since re-opening the main bar on the first floor, a generous balcony overlooking Bourke St and two lusciously, tropical rooftops gardens on the third and fifth floors have been added to the venue.

The new space, Hasti Bala was to be an indoor space adjoining the existing rooftop, Deck Bar on the third floor, designed to create a new point of interest and new “destination area” within the existing venue!

Mercure Treasury Gardens, Melbourne - Accor / WMK Architecture

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

WMK Architecture’s concept for the refurbishment was the notion of “The city meets the park”. This vision was inspired by the Hotel’s unique location within Melbourne’s CBD overlooking the beautiful Treasury and Fitzroy Gardens.
With this in mind, WMK set out to give the Mercure Melbourne Treasury Gardens an edgy “boutique feel” catering for the hotel’s existing target market and draws new types of guests to the property.
The rooms are contemporary and inviting, allowing its key design features to speak for themselves. The guests are greeted with a bold custom carpet, which blends Mercure’s brand colour palette with other complimenting colours representing the gardens that surround the site and the vibrant urban lifestyle of the city. The guests will then experience a unique aspect of Melbourne through a series of curated architectural images, photographed especially for the project, which are printed onto fabric and form part of feature bedheads.
All bathrooms were fully refurbished, allowing the compact space to be used more efficiently by eliminating the bath to make way for a shower with frameless glass screen.
The design injects a sense of local flavour while maintaining all the functionality demanded by Accor and its discerning guests.

AMP Financial Planning Centre - AMP / WMK Architecture

Interior Design - Retail

With AMP being one of the most recognisable brands in Australia, WMK designed a new concept retail store for the financial planning sector. The new financial planning centre is helping Australians “own their tomorrows” today by providing affordable and flexible advice in the Superannuation, Retirement, Investment, Insurance and Home Loans sectors.

Kooyong Residence - Private / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Interior Design - Residential

A choreographed journey of history spans old and new is this re-cycled Melbourne home.
The end result follows a story of 2’pavilions’ -at the front the extensive restoration of the original grander section of the Victorian building and at the rear a new contemporary double storey addition. Both are seemingly separate yet connected via a metaphorical bridge that traverses the courtyard area -acting as a powerful interstitial (&seemingly internal) space mediating the two buildings and history.

Kooyong Residence - Private / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

A choreographed journey of history spans old and new is this re-cycled Melbourne home.
The end result follows a story of 2’pavilions’ -at the front the extensive restoration of the original grander section of the Victorian building and at the rear a new contemporary double storey addition. Both are seemingly separate yet connected via a metaphorical bridge that traverses the courtyard area -acting as a powerful interstitial (& seemingly internal) space mediating the two buildings and history.

Group Hugs and Trio of Dip Sets - ChocolateBox Ceramics Studio

Product Design - Homewares

The project started with ideas from an exhibition titled Fruitful. The theme of the exhibition was family connections. I created pieces that talked about my large family and how families are connected and leave traces and imprints on each other, and the ceramic pieces that were made carried the idea that like in a family you can go off and be independant and on your own but there is alway a place to come back to, a place where you fit.
My aim became to take these exhibition pieces to a place where they were not only beautiful and unique, but functional as well. I have always been fascinated with how functionality adds another dimension to art work, and often more problems to be solved. I find myself more satisfied in the end with a piece of work that has this extra dimension.

Poliform - Poliform

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

Poliform Italy is a family business founded in the north of Italy in 1970, and is built on artisan furniture making traditions. Today the collection is represented in 74 countries, and in cities from New York, Tokyo and London, to Sydney, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. From the beginning, Poliform established creative partnerships with leading designers and architects to develop its wide and diversified collection. In collaboration with Roberto Barbieri, Carlo Colombo, Studio Kairos, Jean- Marie Massaud, Paolo Piva, Vincent Van Duysen and Marcel Wanders, the Poliform range has designs for every area of the home and includes bookcases, wardrobe systems, beds and sofas, chairs, tables and the Poliform Kitchen collection.

In addition to the Poliform collection, Poliform Australia represents some of Italy’s most respected furniture brands Arflex as well as Porada and Pallucco Italia.

Ramen Ya - private / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

RamenYa is a casual ‘no frills’ restaurant selling authentic Japanese noodles in the style of a modern Japanese Ramen bar. The owners’ philosophy is to combine fresh and nutritious food in an elegant yet simple setting with value for money.

Shakin' Steven's House - Family / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Interior Design - Residential

‘Shakin Stevens’ shows there’s more than meets the eye behind the green door.

The conceptual drive for the interior of this house is largely in response to a brief which crystallised into a need to be connected with ‘green’ space. Beyond the heritage front the project wanted to not necessarily increase floor area but to increase amenity. To make spaces feel bigger, more functional, to be light filled, and to visually extend &borrow from within and beyond the site.
‘Shakin Stevens’ is not only about a coloured front door but the experience of what’s beyond it.

Shakin' Steven's House - Family / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Interior Decoration

Decoration within this house is a combination of 2 major themes, both include the colour green and it’s pervading trace though the conceptual drive of this project. Decoration in the form of the use of the colour ‘green’ has not only been used not for ‘decorations sake’ but used to inform bigger picture issues such as enabling a more sustainable outcomes through connection with local amenity ‘green’ spaces, providing connection with internal garden spaces and by utilising colour as a device to connect buildings of differing periods.

Oscar & Wild - Oscar & Wild Boutique / Matt Gibson Architecure + Design

Interior Design - Retail

Oscar & Wild Camberwell is a woman’s fashion boutique owned by the effervescent Iranian born, Melbournian Paloma Hatami. This is the second of her stores following the opening of her original Kew store in 2009.

Oscar & Wild stock garments and accessories sourced from locations such as Iran, Dubai and Morocco as well as containing celebrated Australian Designers and International brands catering to fashion savvy clientele. The selection and combination of pieces are rigorously and passionately sourced by Paloma herself, of which the composition is a very real representation of her rich history & style.

Mascherata - Gabriella Ferrante

Fashion Design - Fashion Label

My first thoughts:

Eveningwear; Leather.

Then

Black, White.

Opposites. Attract.

Multi. Function
One outfit= many possibilities

Not for wallflowers

Corpus Ephemera: Spring Summer 12/13 - Tettmann.Doust

Fashion Design - Fashion Label

In follow up to the debut collection Aves Insecta, the second collection from Tettmann.Doust, Corpus Ephemera, concludes their anatomical study on birds and insects.

Aves Insecta: Autumn/Winter 2012 - Tettmann.Doust

Fashion Design - Fashion Label

Aves Insecta is the debut collection from Tettmann.Doust, which begins their anatomical study of birds and insects.
Inspired by a mutual curiosity in aesthetics associated with the study of nature, their fascination with birds and insects takes on a scientific charm as the two deconstruct various anatomies to create their own symmetries and systems.

Zabe - Zabe

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

Zabé is a new fashion jewellery label that mixes amazing swarovski crystals and pearls, with stunning natural gemstones. The result is a totally unique mix of colours, sparkle and quality.

Being handcrafted right here in Melbourne, zabé brings the best of the Melbourne fashion landscape to the masses with its affordable range of high quality accessories.

With a sweet tooth for Swarovski and natural gem stones, zabé is an accessories label everyone loves.

South Yarra Residence - n/a / Carr Design Group Pty Ltd

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Positioned in Melbourne's Domain precinct, the 1929 built residence meshes historic architecture with a modern, cantilevered addition. The architecture is defined by expansive planar axes, the core of which defines the home over three floors.
Junctions old and new are celebrated with wide shadow recesses and textural change. A monochrome palette of cement rendered walls, gloss black timber flooring, matt black steel and polished aluminium reflect the purity of modernist inspiration.
The entry gallery straddles new and old, establishing key vistas through the house. Existing openings lined with fine steel portals are framing devices for reveals, panels and blades. A graphic staircase perforates the upper floor in a continuous ribbon of black gloss timber, illuminated by shards of light, piercing the stair void as the sun tracks from East to West.
Oversized openings to new spaces are flush glazed, the framing receding, enabling a view of the adjacent property textured walling to be explored.
Generously proportioned spaces at first floor are planned within old and new, providing a cohesive bedroom floor. An extensive west glazed facade is shielded by a bank of electrically controlled external louvers, with the cantilevered form providing protection to a fully glazed ground floor living space.

CAJA Furniture/Homeware Design - CAJA

Product Design - Furniture

Mix and match, play with color, texture & shape to create a piece of furniture that reflects YOU & YOUR STYLE

One box. Multiple elements. Endless options!

"CAJA" - BOX (In Spanish)
"TAPAR" - TO LID (In Spanish). TAPAS is derived from EL TAPAR

Claremont Apartments - Michael L Yates & Co. / HASSELL

Interior Design - Residential

Claremont Street Apartments establish quality spaces for recreation, entertainment and living, with spectacular views across the Melbourne CBD, bays and surrounds. The design concept is a classic approach to apartment living in a quintessential Melbourne context. Clean, contemporary spaces provide a luxurious living environment. The apartments have a consistent project language maintaining design integrity throughout. Level 5 features the ultimate lifestyle space, with an outdoor deck and a winter lounge; a place for entertaining, for garden parties and martinis, where notions of a glamorous past are revived.

Better Health Channel - Department of Health / Deloitte Digital

Digital Experience - Mobile

Established by the Victorian Government Department of Health in 1999, the Better Health Channel (BHC) is Australia's leading health and medical information website. With a reputation for quality-assured, comprehensive and trustworthy information, it receives over one million unique visitors each month.

The multi-award winning site has regularly been ranked by Experian Hitwise as the No. 1 Health and Medical Information Website in Australia.

'Living Places' Suburban Revival - Department of Human Services / BENT Architecture

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

‘Living Places’ public housing establishes a benchmark for environmentally and socially sustainable low-cost housing in Victoria.

The culmination of an open design competition initiated by the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and the Office of Housing,’ Living Places’ involves the design of fifteen environmentally efficient, low-cost dwellings on six consolidated residential allotments in Dandenong. The project establishes a solar responsive urban framework which, in combination with efficient internal planning and the integration of ESD technologies, facilitates dwellings with energy ratings in excess of 8 stars. WSUD principles, grey water treatment and indigenous planting reduce the site’s dependence on mains water and minimise its impact on the local environment.

‘Living Places’ is spatially diverse and accommodates numerous household configurations. Private open spaces, semi-private gardens and operable fences and screens allow residents to mediate contact with neighbours, while centrally located communal outdoor spaces activate the site and create possibilities for interaction and self-expression.

‘Living Places’ demonstrates that public housing can be accommodated within established suburban environments without disrupting the neighbourhood or ostracizing the community within. Furthermore, they can be spatially rich and rewarding places to live.

Space Furniture - Space Furniture

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

Space launched its first showroom in Sydney in 1993, quickly establishing the benchmark for design retailing in Australia. Since then the company has developed into South-East Asia’s largest and most progressive retailer of contemporary design. With a unique approach and highly sophisticated, design-focused interior environments, Space is home to the worlds leading furniture brands including B&B Italia, Kartell. Moooi, Zanotta and Vitra.

Space Furniture is located at 629 Church Street, Richmond, the design precinct of Melbourne.
www.spacefurniture.com.au

Gertrude Contemporary - Gertrude Contemporary / Fabio Ongarato Design

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

“Creativity, Risk and Experimentation” – Gertrude Contemporary is regarded as a leading Australian centre for the development and presentation of contemporary art. As such the rebranding of this important institution demanded an outcome of equal parallel.

Baker D. Chirico - Baker D. Chirico / Fabio Ongarato Design

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

“A totally unique experience” – Baker Daniel Chirico, Australia’s most recognised artisan bread maker, launched his second store, in the inner city suburb of Carlton, with a new identity and store that combines the old with the new, the traditional with the surreal, and focuses on the craft of bread making.

The Capitol, South Yarra - Palin Tertini, Developers / Fabio Ongarato Design

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

“Setting a new benchmark” – The Capitol, positioned as the premier South Yarra luxury apartment address for Melbourne’s urban elite. Designed by Bates Smart, The Capitol offers unrivalled designer appointments, generous spaces and views of the city skyline and Port Phillip Bay.

Premium apartment living on the corner of Toorak Rd and Chapel St.

barry street residence - caia_di_lizio design

Interior Design - Residential

Barry Street Residence is a major renovation and extension to an original grand old Victorian home. The client brief was to invigorate an existing building with a new modern direction to the new construction. The interior was to be carefully considered as integral to the architecture. Our intention was a marriage of the old and new rather than a jarring juxtaposition of past and present. Most rooms at the front of the property were left largely in their original form,while the new spaces to the rear are open sculptural spaces enlivened by an abundance of natural light . A sophisticated palette was selected in a range of textures and finishes such as stucco walls surrounding the kitchen joinery, fine timber detailing adjacent to Borghini marble both in the kitchen and main bathroom. Our aim was to carefully choreograph the materials in order to give a nod/reference at the old historic aspects of the original house by using fine crafted materials such as handmade tiles, wood turned legs on the vanities, textured splashback in the kitchen and (loose interpretation) refectory style island bench. This was intended to compliment without attempt to mimic.

Vision Camberwell - Vision Camberwell / caia_di_lizio design

Interior Design - Retail

The clients requirements- were that we up-grade the retail area (and back of house- consulting rooms) to be a contemporary fit-out with enough display area to accommodate 400 sets of spectacles within a tight budget, but also accommodate 6 staff members and their specific work needs. within this frame work(no pun intended) we had the freedom to design whatever we wanted thanks to the clients trust and willingness to take a risk. We began our conceptual stage with all things regarding vision, Colour being the most obvious was carefully considered, the colour green of the carpet and the green hedge promote restful sight. The Braille wall is a bit of fun but also a serious note at the importance of vision . However we also wanted to challenge perceptions of the traditional optometrists interiors. The design was underpinned with the primary consideration that it was a boutique retail space where any genre of product on display could sit comfortably - beautiful spectacles or beautiful dresses .

Australian Army - Australian Army / Deloitte Digital

Digital Experience - Website

Working within a tight timeline to launch for the Army’s 111th Birthday celebrations, the new Army website is a complete visual redesign that also incorporates fresh content features.

By taking a user centred design approach we were able to deliver a site that was tailored for the Army's target audience. The continual involvement of our UX team not only ensured that we were meeting user needs, but that we also aligned to organisational requirements.

Social media engagement is a further component of the new website; you can follow the Army on Facebook and Twitter, and can share Army website content via your personal social media channels.

Deloitte Digital - Deloitte Digital

Digital Experience - Website

Deloitte Digital is a global digital consultancy and creative practice. The launch of the global practice and an out of date website provided an opportunity to refresh the brand.

Consumer Affairs Victoria - Consumer Affairs Victoria / Deloitte Digital

Digital Experience - Website

Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) is an organisation that protects and promotes the interests of consumers and businesses in Victoria.
CAV sought a modern and flexible web content management system on which to provide information and advice to their audience and a web experience management system to provide an extensible framework on which to build richer engagement experiences.

South Australian Tourism Commission - South Australia Tourism / Deloitte Digital

Digital Experience - Website

The South Australian Tourism Commission (SATC) wanted to create a channel to showcase the state and better connect tourism operators with potential tourists. Deloitte Digital worked with SATC to deliver a cutting-edge website that delivers on both fronts.

With an inspiring, clean and graphically-brave design, the new southaustralia.com is the result of a purpose-designed and thought-through user experience process. Using evocative imagery and simple navigation, the site aims to engage the visitor and have them discover more of South Australia.

Through a combination of design and complex back-end engineering, the user can find that “perfect little B&B” and have their next holiday booked and paid for in fewer than five clicks.

Architects Eat Corporate Identity and Branding - Architects Eat / Hue Studio

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Identity and branding for an award winning Melbourne architecture firm, Architects Eat.

Nordic Cuckoo Clock - Jo Melrose Design

Product Design - Homewares

The Nordic Cuckoo Clock was a self generated project.

I was originally creating collages that featured a stylized bird
character I called ‘retro bird’. The collages had a 1970s’ style colour palette and combined old buttons with pages from vintage children's books.

The collages seemed to lend themselves to other applications.
I liked the quirkiness of the traditional cuckoo clock and decided to create a contemporary interpretation of this classic timepiece.

'modelis' collection - etch by design

Textile + Surface Design - Interior

Mid 2012 saw etch by design studio create a contemporary range of textiles to stimulate a revived interest in pattern application that was relevant to our current design culture. The ‘modelis’ collection was inspired by a desire to combine sustainable design with bold, contemporary prints - whether printed, woven, surface pattern or structural and surface material applications.
Inspired by the emerging trend of re-capturing the tactility of traditional, handmade craftsmanship, the designs took inspiration from the far-east and indigo dying. Inspired by an original artwork designed by hand-dying fabrics, the design is fused with the influence of traditional indigo textile patterns. A palette of deep inky indigo, faded blues and bleached out pales, or alternatively strong neon brights with highlights of fuchsia, orange and lime are possible. Creating a luxe –artisian look, the kaleidoscopic motif and ombre colouring embraced the tradition of shibori geometrics for a contemporary textile design and use.

Ian Potter Museum of Art - Ian Potter Museum of Art / fatfish

Digital Experience - Website

Founded in 1972, the Ian Potter Museum of Art is the University of Melbourne’s art museum. fatfish were invited to evolve their website into a visual documentary of the Museum.

cylk on Chapel - cylk

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

cylk is a brand with a soul and a story. As the latest recipient of the prestigious International Apparel Federation Design Award, cylk opened its first flagship shopping destination at 497 Chapel Street, South Yarra after the successful tenure of 3 pop-up stores around Melbourne, Australia.

The store focusses on the compelling and unique aspects of the brand that include innovation, the high prevalence of natural fibres not only within the collection but through the fixtures that make up the store, and also being a pioneer in seamless technology; a sustainble knitting process that minimizes wastage and reduces energy consumption.

The flagship store focusses on personalising the shopping experience for the brands valued clients. Branching into the international market, with stockists already in Canada, South Africa and New Zealand, cylk also plan to open boutiques in selected locations across Melbourne, Sydney and Perth and aim to have 3-5 stores within the next 2 years.

RMIT School of Media & Communication Project - Building 9, Levels B-3 - RMIT University / Spowers

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

This project was about establishing a new home and identity for RMIT’s School of Media and Communication, previously dispersed amongst 10 different locations within RMIT City Campus, within a once beautiful 1930’s heritage listed building that had unfortunately endured a legacy of piece-meal fitouts and neglect. The interior architectural project clearly acknowledges and respects the existing fabric, whilst strategically inserting new elements as conscious and obvious architectural installations which support the school’s identity and purpose.

Educational innovation was driven by the creation of new and progressive learning spaces embedded within the heritage context. A clear demonstration of this is the typical “classroom” module – guised as the “cross discipline learning space” – which is multiplied nine times throughout the project. Spowers created this collaborative learning space solution (through prototyping and significant stakeholder engagement) to be used for a multitude of programmes which previously all had their own “specialist” dedicated spaces. These 30 capacity cross discipline learning spaces perform as a media classroom, design studio, standard “didactic” classroom and support a collaborative environment that is highly buttressed by technology. This teaching space has now become an exemplar for RMIT University.

Melbourne Geek Night - Thirst Studios

Digital Experience - Website

Melbourne Geek Night is an informal get-together for people who work in the web industry around Melbourne to catch-up, have a yarn, share ideas and talk about new techniques and technologies. This is the responsive website we put together to accompany the bi-monthly event.

Thirst Studios Website - Thirst Studios

Digital Experience - Website

We redesigned our own website in 2012 to promote our ux consulting, design & development services.

Given what we do, it was imperative that the site itself serve as a portfolio piece in it's own right.

Most importantly, it needed to deliver a truly responsive experience, adapting its design & layout to provide the best user experience for the user, and the device upon which they are viewing it.

Australian Super - Australian Super / Deloitte Digital

Digital Experience - Website

AustralianSuper is the nation’s biggest industry super fund.
It’s website attracts four million visits each year. To serve its members more effectively, AustralianSuper identified opportunities to increase its use of digital channels, specifically online and mobile.

Queensberry Street House - Private / Robert Simeoni Pty Ltd Architects

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The Queensberry Street house occupies the site of a former cheese factory in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne. The building is formally ambiguous, mediating between the domestic and industrial sensibilities of the neighboring building stock whilst adopting a material aesthetic that engages with its local context. The brickwork detailing makes reference to the character of the local streetscape, however in this instance, these references are imbued with an additional architectural quality; a panel of brickwork slides proud of the east façade to create a subtle shadow and define an edge. ‘Hit and miss’ perforated brickwork compositionally activates the façade, allowing momentary glimpses into the interior through to the layered spaces within, whilst simultaneously enabling filtered views to the exterior. Fabricated from ‘off the shelf’ galvanized steel flats, the bespoke glazing system is formed into complex steel window walls that are softened by the use of dark stained timber sections to all operable doors and windows. Curtains act as spatial dividers, but also suggest the domestic sensibilities of the project, providing a sense of softness and warmth to contrast the apparent muscularity of the form and materials.

Good Shepherd Chapel - Abbotsford - Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand / Robert Simeoni Pty Ltd Architects

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

Constructed initially in 1871 the Chapel was and is the cultural and spiritual centre for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd at the Abbotsford Convent.

Robert Simeoni Architects was engaged to restore the building and explore the possibility of creating new uses and spaces for redundant areas. In addition to traditional worship facilities, flexible spaces are provided for use by lay people and the general public. An interpretive centre, a variety of meeting spaces and amenities, including an intimate space in the crypt have been incorporated into this restoration project.

Our approach to the project was respectful of the architectural and cultural history of the Chapel and in accordance with the Burra Charter. Restoration of the existing building was undertaken with care to retain as much of the existing fabric as possible.

This restoration of the existing Chapel and the new interventions honour the history of the Good Shepherd Sisters and provide a multifunctional facility for their continued work and presence within the community.

Good Shepherd Chapel - Abbotsford - Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand / Robert Simeoni Pty Ltd Architects

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

Wintergarden Facade - ISPT / studio505

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

An iconic and enchanting new art facade for the newly opened Wintergarden Shopping Centre in central Brisbane. The facade covers three sides of a city block and is a complex study of wintergardens, biology, geometry and layering. The facade design incorporates unique cutting, folding and lighting systems which are integrated into a coherent cultural event.

Every panel and layer in the 4,000m2 façade has a unique design that is fully expressed through the dynamic, experiential interplay between a considered but expansive palette of colours and a rich language of cutting, scoring, folding and lighting all of which coalesce as a rich, coherent, cultural experience.

Brick House - Clare Cousins Architects

Interior Design - Residential

The Brick House is an addition and renovation to a single fronted Edwardian house in Prahran. Craving privacy from looming neighbouring flats two new structures were conceived to cocoon a private central courtyard space between them.

Parents Retreat @ Melbourne Central - GPT / Clare Cousins Architects

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

Designed as a retreat for parents and a stimulating, playful environ for their little ones, this space offers respite from the buzz of the inner-city shopping precinct. Key to the concept was the aim to preference local suppliers, and to use low-tech and sustainable materials, with bespoke play equipment unique to the project.

Keast Park Community Pavillion - Frankston City Council / Jackson Clements Burrows Pty Ltd Architects

Architecture - Mixed - Use - Constructed

The Keast Park Community Pavilion and foreshore landscape provides a dynamic building and coastal design response that highlights and invigorates the entrance to Keast Park and the City of Frankston. It promotes community interaction and enhances a sense of connection and activity between the coastal foreshore, park and existing bowls club.

Mámor High Tea & Chocolates Szalón - Mámor High Tea & Chocolates Szalón

Interior Design - Retail

Mámor translates to "ecstasy" in Hungarian, so our goal in this project was to create a level of pleasure that transports you back to Old Europe as you enjoy your Indulgent High Tea and Exquisite Chocolates in a most unexpected pocket of Melbourne. When you step into our baroque Chocolate & High Tea Szalón, we wanted you to immediately capture our brand by being transported back to Old Europe, to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, whence the proprietors have come. We interviewed designers and chose TDCreative of Richmond because Peter and Lori Dietze immediately "got" our concept. Some call it a “bordello without a bed”, and that suits us just fine! The Sunday Age “M” magazine called our Szalón “Thinking man's foreplay” and The Australian Travel section called us “One of Australia's Seven Secret Destinations”. Our word of mouth and social media advertising campaign has led to "reservations only" weeks in advance.

Brick House - Clare Cousins Architects

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Multi-Res Backyard Development : High End & High Quality - / Melbourne Design Studios

Architecture - Residential - Proposed

Designing 12 luxurious town houses, we set out to prove that a commercially driven backyard development can be both exciting and of substantial size and revenue at the same time : A sustainable community that offers the residents convenience, lifestyle and spectacular city views. Within walking distance of the CBD, each house has ample of space, individual backyards and additional access to communal gardens. Special features like grand roof terraces, private water garden balconies from the master suite, exclusive interiors, theatre rooms, glass lifts, individual car parking with direct house access, and many more, make it a very unique development. A gem in the city that offers a lifestyle of luxury…

Aesop Mobile - Aesop / Butterfly

Digital Experience - Mobile

Aesop came to Butterfly looking to extend the reach of their online offering, through the creation of a mobile store for Australia and New Zealand.

By creating a fully mobile compatible template, Butterfly built a mobile site that allowed customers to have exactly the same options that they would on the desktop site, including functionality such as: store location, and a complete online shopping experience.

National Diabetes Week 2012 - Diabetes Australia - Vic / Butterfly

Digital Experience - Website

National Diabetes Week (NDW) ran from the 8th-15th July. The campaign for NDW in 2012 was to push for a Government funded Prevention scheme for Type 2 diabetes through the “email your MP” initiative. This allowed users to be active participants in the campaign. Upon entering your email address and postcode, users were given the option to email their state or federal MP by selecting from a list and using the default letter available, or creating a personal message.

The email itself also had a default setting where federal and state MPs were automatically emailed, to approach all facets of the government.

Other features of the site include a risk assessment tool where users are able to determine the risks of developing type 2 diabetes, an image rotator of the campaign posters that were promoted around Australia, and information about preventing type two diabetes.

Risk Equip Fitness - Guild Insurance Limited / Butterfly

Digital Experience - Website

In partnership with Fitness Australia, the risk management arm of Guild Insurance Limited, Risk Equip, created a wealth of information on safe and effective risk management for fitness professionals. Risk Equip came to us to help them deliver that information to Fitness Australia members in a clear and engaging manner. The solution Butterfly provided was an online interactive learning tool, that combined visually engaging content, a clear site structure, with the flexibility of desktop, tablet and mobile accessibility.

Hudsons Coffee rebrand - Emirates Leisure / Hoyne Design

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Hudsons Coffee had a problem. A new owner recognised massive potential in the business but customers were less than enthusiastic. Hoyne went straight to the source – coffee drinkers themselves – to discover what would make Hudsons a brand worthy of international expansion.

Hudsons had grown from a flagship store on Elizabeth Street in 1998 to a national coffee store network. The new owner, Emirates Leisure Retail, planned to grow the store base from 50 to 250, ready for international expansion. To achieve this, repositioning and re-branding was required. For the past decade customer response to Hudsons had slipped substantially. Hoyne commissioned research to pinpoint why.

The re-brand embraces the spirit of independent cafés, moving away from pedestrian aesthetics associated with chains. A new mindset around quality and perfection is expressed in the strap line: ‘A little love in every drop’.

Prior to this project, customer approval ratings for Hudsons Coffee outlets was alarmingly low. Research post-launch of the new trial store showed a lift in approval rating to a staggering 98 percent. Store size and location remained the same, so the only contributing factor to the improved result was the re-branding and new store design.

Ludlites Posters - Hoyne Design

Graphic Design - Illustration and Type

Posters to promote themed exhibitions by the Ludlites, a collective of lo-fi photographers who shoot exclusively using plastic cameras and film.

Great Dane Catalogue - Great Dane / Hoyne Design

Graphic Design - Publication

Great Dane is Australia’s premier emporium for Scandinavian design. To mark the company’s 10th anniversary and announce its move from vintage furniture to cotemporary and custom made, Hoyne produced an audacious large format A2 full colour magazine. It has become a collector’s item amongst Great Dane devotees.

To get maximum value from a limited budget the campaign focused on one application - a high- end publication in the style of a Scandinavian designer magazine. Key elements included bespoke typography with hand-crafted elements, photography as unexpected art pieces to inspire and surprise, finely-crafted intelligent copy, talking directly to an exclusive style-savvy audience, plus cross-endorsement from design authority figures for added brand credibility. Emphasis was placed on the fact that customers would not see the same collection anywhere else in the world.

Hoyne combined believable lifestyle images with hand-sketched design elements and attached a tag line reflective of irrefutable Danish logic - “Buy well and buy once.”

Suspension Range - Kristel Britcher

Product Design - Homewares

The Suspension Range was designed as an exploration of white space. Through the deflation of blown glass, colour forms a negative space, a seemingly suspended form. The range is designed for each piece to be reversible, create varied levels of interest when used at the table.

The MDS PassivHaus : Comtemporary Living in an Energy-Positive 10 Star Home - Melbourne Design Studios

Architecture - Residential - Proposed

No more energy bills - how would you like that?
This contemporary family home is designed to be energy positive, i.e. over the course of a year it generates more energy than it would use. Building an energy positive house means you can start billing your energy supplier, rather than the other way around. Isn’t that fantastic?

So how does that work?
Mostly good design based on passive solar design principles, and some clever tricks added into the mix. The foundations are simple : (1) Create a comfortable living environment, that uses little energy to heat or cool, and (2) Create energy to offset the little bit that you are using, or for positive gearing.
Living spaces and bedrooms are facing north, using free and everlasting solar heat to make it nice and cosy. A services and amenities ‘block’ along the south side acts as thermal buffer. Almost following modernist traditions, these two distinct functions (living and services) generate the architectural form.

Balancing social, economic and environmental sustainability has been the driver for the design. Combined with the contemporary form and simple material palette, this results in a beautiful and truly sustainable home.

'Now and When: Australian Urbanism' exhibition, typography design - Australian Institute of Architects / Design By Pidgeon

Graphic Design - Illustration and Type

The ‘Now and When: Australian Urbanism’ exhibition at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale explored the current conditions and possible future scenarios of Australian Urbanism.

The exhibition highlighted a national and international concern: how we best manage cities and their future growth. The exhibition was created using groundbreaking 3D technology in projected photography and computer-generated simulations. It was presented in two parts: Now, a 3D photographic study from a helicopter of the existing Australian urban condition, and When, a 3D speculation into the evolution of this unique continent’s cities in the future.

Design By Pidgeon (DBP) were responsible for the exhibition's branding and overall design, signage and publication design.

Sydney Opera House - Stage Management Desk - Sydney Opera House / Sydney Opera House

Product Design - Business and Technology

"Sydney Opera House is not only one of the busiest and most famous performing venues on earth, it is also home to technical and project management teams entrusted with designing the next generation of the buildings systems. Responding to a brief to create a truly world leading design for it aging Stage Management System that controls all FOH and BOH communications, video and audio, Charlwood and the Sydney Opera House team conceived a truly beautiful design solution when tasked with replacing the six stage management desks as part of the largest technical upgrade project since the Sydney Opera House opened in 1973." David Claringbold – Director, Theatre & Events – Sydney Opera House.

Limited Over: Bangles with sporting appeal. - Simone LeAmon Design and Creative Strategy

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

From the Melbourne studio of celebrated artist and designer Simone LeAmon Limited Over is a special edition of bangles in 316 stainless steel and bronze. Commemorating the manufacture of the ‘two-piece cricket ball’ for which the Melbourne manufacturing sector was once renowned, Limited Over marks the tenth anniversary of Simone LeAmon’s internationally acclaimed Bowling Arm bangles, which turn the leather by-product from the two-piece cricket ball into a fashion accessory. Available in three sizes and two variations ‘Grubber’ and ‘Popper’ the Limited Over bangles are prepared from artisan moulds of the cricket ball waste and cast using the lost-wax method. Limited Over is a reminder of how place and manufacturing traditions can embed design production with cultural identity.

Monash University Student Housing, Clayton - Monash University / BVN Architecture

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Monash University Student Housing, Clayton, comprises two 5 storey buildings, each containing 300 student studios flanking a central, common courtyard. Fundamental to the project was the need to create a community whilst supporting the individual; therefore, the courtyard is the meeting point and entry to each building. It refers to traditional college accommodation where students interact from private spaces to the common.

Shared spaces and vertical circulation are located at the centre of each building encouraging interaction. The main communal spaces are double storey volumes playing an important role in connecting all levels and defining the architectural composition. Each wing of the building has a cohort of 30 studios per level. Studios contain a kitchenette, ensuite and living/sleeping space. At 20m2 the studio module was refined to create a sense of spaciousness, incorporating extensive operable floor to ceiling windows and exposed ceilings 2.7 metres in height, with services contained at central risers.

This project has achieved 5 star As Designed and As Built, Green Star ratings. It has also been identified as a new benchmark for the Federal Government for affordable housing under the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS).

The Origin Energy Project - Group GSA / The Greenwall Company

Landscape Architecture

The tallest greenwall in Australia! Spanning 22 floors of the Origin Energy head office in Melbourne. Each floor has its own unique planting style, specifically designed to maximize varying angles and lighting.

Origin’s Melbourne Head Office is a refit of an existing building. It aims to be best practice in sustainability and energy efficiency through the design and installation of the state of the art trigeneration plant.

The Cogent Trigeneration Plant delivers heating and cooling for the building’s air-conditioning system. It also provides low CO2 emissions and density electricity, when compared to the grid.* This helps reduce Origin’s carbon footprint.

The greenwall forms a green lung for the building. This project has taken The Greenwall Company one step closer to reclaiming the built environment!

Medley Hall - The University of Melbourne / Frances-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt)

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

fjmt were appointed by the University of Melbourne to refurbish a series of State Heritage listed buildings in inner Melbourne. The complex project required a sensitive and rigorous approach to working with some of Victoria’s most important Heritage Buildings including the iconic “Boom Style” Benvenuta mansion.

Medley Hall is a student residential college currently spread across four disparate buildings. The fjmt proposal links the four buildings by inserting a new glass atrium structure, sensitively set back from the highly significant Drummond Street facades. The glass and louvered structure sits atop of a labyrinth that naturally cools the space and helps meet the College’s high sustainable objectives. The carefully crafted glass box responds to its external environmental conditions with a series of mechanically operated louvres that open and shut according to heat loads. Night purging and cross ventilation ensure that comfort conditions are maintained throughout the year. The creation of student lounges on each floor and the reorganization of circulation patterns through the new atrium space have greatly enhanced the sense of belonging for both residents and staff. The College now has a new central heart that connects previously disparate parts through a cohesive functional and dramatic space.

Dots, Zags and Melting Ice Cream Bag Mini-Range - Harvest Textiles Pty Ltd

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

Our Dots, Zags and Melting Ice Cream Bag mini-range was inspired by a desire to combine sustainable design with bold, contemporary prints.

Too often when people think of sustainable fashion items they conjure up images of muted tones. We decided to turn this idea on its head.

Our tote bags are big and roomy with a handy inside pocket to store your goodies!

The Melting Ice Cream Mini Bags could really have a zillion uses - purse, make up bag, travel pouch, clutch bag or to just brighten up your bathroom counter!

This particular range was designed by Jess Wright in conjunction with Harvest Textiles.

Albert St Food & Wine - Albert St Food & Wine / Fiona Drago Architect

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

Albert St Food & Wine is an all-day eatery, wine bar, and food and wine store in the heart of Brunswick’s Sydney Road. It revitalizes an old bank building on a prominent corner site to create a dynamic space in one of Melbourne’s most diverse neighbourhoods.

Previous refurbishments have been peeled back to reveal original building features such as timber floorboards and an intricate ceiling of riveted steel beams and timber joists. North-facing windows have been uncovered to fill the soaring space with natural light, and the old bank vault has become the wine cellar. The discovery of an old photo in the State Bank Archives has led to the reinstatement of the original entry portico on the corner.

The main bar is located at the centre of the space, where the bank counter once stood. Brass mesh panels hovering above the bar evoke old tellers’ screens and divide the large volume into several more intimate zones.

Backpack Bed™ - Swags for Homeless

Product Design - Sport and Leisure

The Backpack Bed™ is a portable single-person outdoor sleeping unit. A lightweight, ergonomic backpack that rolls out to an all weather protected bed with built-in insulated mattress, storage pockets and mosquito protected windows.

Made from safe fire-retardant and mildew resistant materials. Meets 47 international standards for quality and safety. Initially designed for use by homeless and in disaster zones.

The revolutionary Backpack Bed™ is now available for sale to the public in several designs - profits from sales 100% support homeless projects.

Harold Street Residence - Private House / Jackson Clements Burrows

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The Harold Street Residence is a new dwelling located in a Middle Park heritage overlay precinct on the north-west corner of the Neville and Harold Street intersection. The surrounding context is predominantly single storey Victorian terraces. Our response engages with the site’s heritage context through its architectural form and detailing, explores the public/private nature of the corner site, and completes the intersections ‘fourth corner’.

Performative Architecture Installation - University of Melbourne

Installation Design - Exhibit

This project consisted of an inflatable structure wrapped in a swarm of flocking creatures. Visitors could move around the inflated volume or enter it, provoking the installation to express an "emotional" response through lighting, sound and the movement of its texture. The resulting experience proved popular, especially with children who were happy to shed play in the unusual "cave". This experimental exhibit explored performative characteristics of hybrid, digital-and-physical architectural environments combining emergent effects of self-organising agent systems, non-standard architectural geometries, digital sensing and interactive, generative light and sound.

For background and information on the process of making, see:

http://issuu.com/ertf345345/docs/pas_2011_journal

To date, the installation was shown twice: in Open Stage Theatre at the University of Melbourne and during PauseFest 2011.

Grong Grong - Private / Molecule

Interior Decoration

The neoclassical façade of this Toorak residence divulges nothing of the building’s interior, which is a journey into the unexpected. Taking its cues from the building – “I’m new but I want to be old” – the contemporary interior authentically observes the past. Modern art, heirloom furniture and imported lighting hover in style and time.

The ground floor is a tale of two worlds. Cross the threshold and be transported, Alice in Wonderland style, to a choice of the Salon (glamour/public) or the Living Room (family/private).

Part palace, part bazaar and part Miss Havisham’s house, the Salon is a grand, luxurious room that takes seriously its ‘private hotel’ aspirations. A fabulous bar sits alongside lushly upholstered custom furniture and major contemporary artworks. The Salon is about glamour, excitement and aspiration; its look is fun, strong and idiosyncratic.

With milder manners, the Living Room is serene and provides the backdrop for daily life. While the colours and textures dial back from the Salon, the careful curation of varying objects retains the furnishing approach.

Upstairs, bedroom suites and an elegant study deliberately retreat from the energy of the ground floor.

FAINT Magazine - FAINT

Design Publication - Print

FAINT is a Fashion and Art magazine dedicated to showcasing both emerging and established artists and designers from across the globe. It strives to engage and inspire its readers through high-end fashion editorials, avant-garde imagery and exclusive features and interviews.

Real Seal Containers - The Decor Corporation / RAD Consultants

Product Design - Consumer

There has been an unsatisfied need in the marketplace for rectangular food storage containers that are easy to open and close, yet absolutely airtight.

RICOTTA - Rakumba Lighting / Simone LeAmon Design and Creative Strategy

Product Design - Lighting

When designer, Simone LeAmon and the managing director of Rakumba Lighting Michael Murray met in 2009 they hatched a unique idea for a design residency. With a view to developing a collection of feature lighting for the Rakumba brand they devised an immersive program for the exchange of manufacturing know-how and design ideas. With a heritage in hand crafted lampshades Rakumba is a leading Australian manufacturer of custom-made lighting. Founded in 1968, the Company is renown for their bespoke production and ability to prototype and manufacture on-site.

Teaming up with the creative force of Simone LeAmon to develop the design production, the Rakumba Design Collaborations are setting a new benchmark for Australian lighting design and manufacture. Two and half years on and RICOTTA, is the first of the distinctive feature lamps by LeAmon for Rakumba.

RICOTTA. Design Simone LeAmon. Manufacturer Rakumba Lighting.
1800 H and 650 DIA. In powder coated steel, aluminium and cotton.
One lamp (E27) with an inline dimmer 220/240V.

ANAM 2012 Website - Australian National Academy of Music / August

Digital Experience - Website

The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) are committed to producing the next generation of musical leaders. August were committed to creating a fresh, open and clean look online for the organisation for 2012.

George Patterson Y & R - George Patterson Y & R / HASSELL

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

The 'studio' office environment suits the creative team at George Patterson Y&R. Presentation spaces and informal lounges, together with formal workstations and a reception area, form a practical modern office.

The large open spaces and high ceilings of the original nineteenth century building informed the approach of the design which sought to retain many of the heritage architectural features.

Bespoke furniture and joinery create flexible and collaborative work areas, with bookcases and different floor finishes defining areas instead of walls. The result allows daylight to permeate the spaces without being inhibited by walls or other divisions.

Urban Attitude - Urban Attitude / HASSELL

Interior Design - Retail

Urban Attitude is an eclectic giftware store renowned for the party environment of their established Acland Street and Chapel Street stores. The site selected to launch their new brand and flagship store was the heritage-listed former Fitzroy Post Office, located on a prominent corner in Fitzroy.

HASSELL was commissioned to work in collaboration with Fabio Ongarato Design to create a ‘party’ atmosphere through an integrated interior and graphic design approach. The concept that resonated was the idea of a giant puzzle, a 3D game of Tetris, and the functionality of the concept allows generous merchandising opportunities, without becoming overwhelming.

Chasing Kitsune - HASSELL

Installation Design - Exhibit

Chasing Kitsune joined the food truck phenomenon for the 2011 State of Design Festival and redefined it by creating a mobile pop-up restaurant that adapted to its landscape.

‘Kitsune’ is a mythical fox in Japanese culture which shape-shifts and only reveals its true form in shadow or reflection. The truck operated at night with the locations revealed through Facebook and Twitter or by downloading the festival’s iPhone application. Once people ‘found the fox’, delicious Japanese food was on offer.

George North Melbourne - Evolve Development Pty Ltd / HASSELL

Interior Design - Residential

The established plane trees that create the boulevard along Flemington Road provided the inspiration for the architectural concept of George North Melbourne.

The metaphor of the tree drives the structure of the building façade treatment, using the contrast of light and dark and perforated screens to emulate the dappled light created by the trees.

This concept was balanced with understanding the developer’s requirement to create a targeted and marketable product and provide an elegant point of difference in the saturated apartment market place.

Treehouse - confidential / susi leeton architects + interiors

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

We believe in an architecture which sits
gracefully with it’s surroundings and
respects the environment with understated
dignity. Where the most complex and
beautiful solutions are often the
simplest. Timelessness.

Star Voyager - Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) / Minifie van Schaik Architects

Installation Design - Exhibit

An exhibition design for ACMI's "Star Voyager - Exploring Space on Screen" sets the stage for a curated show that explores the history and future of space exploration, as experienced through the moving image. Bringing scientific and archival footage together with feature films and moving image artworks, the exhibition blurs the distinction between fact and fiction to explore how the creative imagination and desire for discovery have inspired artists and scientists alike.

Sustainable Company Headquarters Birkenstock Australia - Birkenstock Australia / Melbourne Design Studios

Architecture - Commercial - Proposed

What sort of shoes are you wearing right now? I've got my Birkenstocks on : You know, the healthy shoe, Made in Germany.

When Birkenstock Australia first started talking to us about ideas for their new headquarter, we got really excited. A company that is based on values such as honesty, integrity, sustainability and craftsmanship, and that would like to see these values reflected in their new company headquarters and retail experience ! Isn’t that great?

Retail, wholesale, workshop and online were to be shown as different faces of the same company in the design. From the shopfront entrance, there is a direct connection through to a central courtyard. This is the point from which you can see all the different faces of the enterprise housed different buildings / areas on the site.

MakeUp at Harvest Workroom - Harvest Workroom

Design Event

MakeUp showcased local Melbourne designers who either reuse or upcycle materials to create amazing new products. We hosted a series of workshops and events at Harvest Workroom based around this theme. We also opened the MakeSHOP where people could drop in at any stage during the festival and make their own upcycled project.

The Royal Children's Hospital - Department of Health / Billard Leece Partnership and Bates Smart

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

The $1 billion Royal Children’s Hospital is based on state-of-the-art ideas around a family-centred care model that puts children and their families at the centre of the facility. The building’s formal arrangement, as well as the internal and external spatial experiences, has been assembled to promote a restorative and healing environment. The therapeutic benefits of nature underpin the overall design, the story derived from the natural textures, forms, patination and colours of surrounding Royal Park. Using innovative and evidence-based design principles, the design reflects changing healthcare practices, workplace patterns, user expectations, community aspirations and environmental responsibility.

Found Porcelain Series - Chloe McColl Jewellery

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

The ocean and its beaches inspire my work. Exploring beaches and collecting fragments from the ocean was a frequent activity of my childhood. As I have creatively grown and established myself as an artist and a jeweler, there has remained a heavy influence of the fascination of the ocean identifiable in my practice. This collection has developed along side this passion. I have aimed to create jewellery that calls attention to the treasures of the ocean. Teaming found porcelain and sterling silver to create one off pieces that frame the fragments, accentuate the weathered appearance and celebrates the organic shapes of the found porcelain pieces caused by the effects of the ocean.

This jewellery collection offers handmade, unique and one-off pieces reflecting the unique quality of the material used to create them. Hoping to offer the wearer in return a unique experience with such 'treasures'.

Totem Collection Bedding - Harvest Textiles Pty Ltd

Product Design - Homewares

Harvest Textiles design and hand print a contemporary range of bedding using our Totem Collection designs.

The range is hand printed in-house at our Melbourne studio on 100% certified unbleached organic cotton using waterbased inks and includes doona covers and pillowcase sets.

'New Generation' Orchard - Melbourne's GPO / Gloss Creative Pty Ltd

Visual Merchandising

We created a ‘New Generation’ Orchard; a mass of overgrown, monstrous fruits & flowers bursting over the balconies down to the ground floor, a metaphor for the fresh undiscovered collections on the first floor.

Pasadena, Clyde - Villawood Properties / Vive Group

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Create a new brand identity for an outer suburban residential development that will attract Gen Y's.

Greenhaven at Somerfield - red23 / Vive Group

Graphic Design - Publication

Create a product brochure that will position a small 25-lot precinct as the premier enclave within an existing development.

Pasadena Sales Office, Clyde - Villawood Properties / Vive Group

Interior Decoration

A fresh, inner city concept for an outer suburban project!

L'Oreal Paris Powder Room - L'Oreal Paris / CarrSpace

Event Experience - Consumer

The L'Oreal Paris Powder Room is a pop-up Brand Experience open to the general public to learn about and interact with an extensive range of L'Oreal Paris Products. Trained staff offer lip, nail, hair and skin consultations and touch-ups to an eager audience who learn about techniques and colour trends as part of L'Oreal Paris' annual sponsorship of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF).
The L'Oreal Paris Powder Room is an institution for many of the consumers that attend. As the welcome beacon to LMFF it acts as the perfect ’touch-up gateway’ for Melbourne’s Fashionistas attending the nightly parades as part of this premiere fashion event. Many consumers often queue for hours to get the opportunity to learn more about their favourite L’Oreal products, get their nails painted, lips touched-up and walk away with the highly sort-after gift bag.
In 2012, we wanted to enhance the Powder Room concept by creating more Of a L’Oreal pop-up style store in taking the space from a temporary structure feel to a highly designed fit-out with large windows, LED coloured doors and windows and beautiful product displays and merchandising throughout.

F2 Architecture website - F2 Architecture / Davidson Branding

Digital Experience - Website

Creativity and beautifully simple ideas showcase this international, award wining Architecture practice.

With F2 projects at the premium end, it was important for the architectural merit in each design to be the hero. The design solution is minimalist and uses a full screen as the canvas for the spectacular built environment images. The menu system is simple and navigation is particularly fluid allowing the focus to remain on the work.

VIP Packaging Brand Identity - VIP Packaging / Davidson Branding

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

VIP Packaging has quickly established itself as a highly successful business with a reputation for innovation and sustainability. The new dynamic logo device and visual tools highlight the unique nature of this business. Inspired by nature, VIP packaging provides function and form for the products we love to live with.

Studio B Architects Brand Identity - Studio B Architects / Davidson Branding

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Studio B is a boutique architecture firm focused on physical spaces which create a sense of community. We worked closely with this small but growing business to bring a new name, bold logotype and visual imagery to life in a modern more contemporary way. The ‘B device’ is ever-changing and acts not only as a window to their work but reflects the transparent approach Studio B takes to each client assignment.

The visual language has been adopted across multiple touch-points, from external signage to the digital space, and it’s creating client interest in a business known for specialist architectural design.

Beaconsfield Parade - Not supplied / Whiting Architects

Interior Design - Residential

Extensive interior reworking of a large, neglected, cold & poorly planed 70s, top floor apartment with magnificent 360-degree views. Very constrained site/penthouse apartment serviced by 1 small lift, it was like building a ship in a bottle.

The entry & arrival were a key part of design response.
existing entry was like a backdoor service area, drab dark and oppressive. A tight space, which opened into a laundry & a doglegged concrete stair, which dumped you unceremoniously in living area.
We introduced a ‘box’ to frame the entry & offer an arrival experience. The base of the box formed the first step. It is necessary to walk up inside & through this box to arrive at the landing. Once we had resolved the entry issue we development the idea of the ‘box form’ throughout the apartment to create a very architectural interior landscape.

The box forms conceal & reveal, wrap existing load-bearing masonry walls to break up the impact of the existing structure. They are ordering devices, which clad, screen & define area & use.
They support kitchen appliances, house clothing, conceal walls & services and act to provide the unified theme, which binds the design together.

Park Street - Whiting Architects

Interior Design - Residential

True Interior ‘design’. made rooms were there were none, let light into areas that had laid dark for hundred years /without extending beyond building envelope. Front dining room doubles as meetingroom, period secretaire folds down / reveal desk + laptop / it’s a workstation. Formal livingroom /quiet space for evenings or afternoon naps.
Rear kitchenmeals livingarea is where everyone comes together / cook around what was a Belgian school desk. Space to eat, be loud, do homework and have family time.
Back entrance via ‘mudroom’ this space connected to laundry. In from garage / deposit schoolbags shoes and detritus. Front upstairs balcony like sitting in treehouse. Sit up in the canopy of the planetrees, fantastic summer place for dinner / read books / low west summer sun remarkable. Master bedroom great size / trees outside window mean light ever changing. Connects directly to ensuite with washing platform. Top attic/another favourite. oak timber stairs lead up to glazed reading area. If you are 9 you continue up the rope net to the sleeping area, great fun to arrive in a room by emerging from under desk. This room is the way architects write love letters to their children.

Park Street - Whiting Architects

Interior Decoration

City of Casey's Selandra Community Place - City of Casey / ASPECT Studios & Studio Binocular

Motion

Selandra Community Place (SCP) is an Australian-first concept which centres on an interactive eight-star, zero energy display home that pilots a variety of sustainable initiatives around improving the environment, and health and wellbeing of the wider community.

Through innovative combination of QR codes, interpretative signage and interactive media, the City of Casey, ASPECT Studios and Studio Binocular created a communication strategy to deliver key ‘ideas’ to promote sustainability when building new homes and make informed decisions to improve their families’ health and wellbeing.

Visitors use smart phones to scan and access a mobile website to gain a deeper understanding of simple ideas they can undertake. The display home uses subtle visual prompts to direct visitors on a self tour, where they can discover ways to improve the health and wellbeing of their families and the planet.

City of Casey's Selandra Community Place - City of Casey / ASPECT Studios & Studio Binocular

Digital Experience - Mobile

City of Casey's Selandra Community Place - City of Casey / ASPECT Studios & Studio Binocular

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Bot Pod - Garden Ambassadors (Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne) / Andrew Maynard Architects

Installation Design - Exhibit

When closed it is just another giant pot plant in the garden. When opened it is a vehicle for education, that comes right to you.

Hill House - Private / Andrew Maynard Architects

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The site faces north therefore relegating the backyard, the family’s primary outdoor space, to shadow throughout the year. In the 90s a two storey extension was added reducing solar access even further while creating deep dark space within the house. A family of five wished to create a long-term home, which could meet the requirements of three small children and their slow transformation into young adults over the years.

Following the decision to build at the rear of the block a ubiquitous modern box was first imagined. Soon it seemed necessary to pursue the opportunity to activate this new, once shaded, now sunny facade. A seat along the new northern facade? Perhaps a series of steps like the Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti? But how does one lounge in the sun on steps? Perhaps a slope instead ... and the Hill House emerged.

Nebula - Arts Access Victoria (Art Day South) / Andrew Maynard Architects

Installation Design - Exhibit

“Nebula is a revolution in inclusive design. As Australia’s first portable arts space created with the needs of artists with a disability at the centre of its design, the Nebula studio adapts to the art and the artists ... Nebula can be transformed into a gallery, workshop / seminar space or performing arts venue ... through this space, artists with a disability can inject their work into the mainstream arts community.” - Arts Access Victoria

Zero Waste Table - Andrew Maynard Architects

Product Design - Furniture

Single cuts. No off cuts. Take a bag of saw dust for your garden. Zero waste.

Manning Road House - Private / Noxon Giffen

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Manning Road House is situated in Melbourne’s established south eastern suburbs amongst predominantly historic red brick and tiled homes.

The project is a result of a long-term friendship between client and architect and is the realisation of a shared vision, one that has evolved over the course of many journeys together. The resulting design is a manifestation of those experiences and the landscape, its forms, spaces, scale, colours, textures, light and materiality.

Baker D Chirico - Baker D Chirico / March Studio

Interior Design - Retail

An undulation of CNC routed plywood forms wall and ceiling. Subtractions from the wall provide display areas for bread; the varying depths of the shelves and heights of the subtractions meticulously arranged to accommodate long baguettes, large round pagnotta, ficelle loaves and other creations. The variety and expanse of the wall gives freedom to arrange and alter the display according to mood or season.

Standing in firm counterpoint to the wave of the bread wall, the central counter is conceived of as a giant chopping board, intended to wear and patina gracefully with age and use. Scales, crumb trays, knife holders and POS terminals each have a place on this working bench, all subsumed into the simple sales concept - chop loaf, wrap and sell.

Braemar World's First Six Star Ducted Gas Heating Range - Seeley International

Product Design - Housing and Building

The Braemar six star ducted gas heating range is the first and only in the world to break the six star barrier, making it the most energy efficient heater on the market and representing a 10 to 15 per cent drop in running costs for the consumer, when compared to a 5 star rated ducted gas heating product, and an enormous 30% savings compared to a 3 star rated ducted gas heater.

Timber Circle Shelf - Bride&Wolfe

Product Design - Homewares

Bride&Wolfe make things they want to see in their own home. Beautiful and practical, our steam bent Australian hardwood Circle Shelves become a frame for the customers' own treasures and collectibles.

V Range Furniture - C Design Studio

Product Design - Furniture

V – RANGE FURNITURE
An innovative range of high end, low volume furniture. Combining metals , timbers & Stone the unique ‘V’ shape offers a functional and striking display and storage system .

House Light - C Design Studio

Product Design - Lighting

The House light is a feature light , Functional by design, Quirky in personality & using smart, sustainable production. It is produced using Industry offcuts of Aluminium & combines a low power LED strip light system.

Makedo's Marvellous Maze at State of Design Festival - Makedo

Design Event

A labyrinth cardboard maze wound its way through Melbourne’s Federation Square BMW Edge Theatre. Collaboratively built by young kid makers, parents and festival patrons using Makedo parts at Melbourne State of Design Festival 2011, participants witnessed their own handy work come to life right before their very eyes.

Dual Occupancy - Quincom PL / Peter Wright & Associates

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Award for most creative Design Bayside City council
Award for most sustainable design Bayside City Council
Best Dual Occupancy Victoria HIA

The Fallen - Lisa Taranto Fashion / Ms Megatu Creative

Visual Merchandising

FASHION POP UP SHOP WITH PERMANENT APPEAL!
Lisa Taranto required a temporary retail set-up that had enough sophistication about it to launch her first self branded boutique within Melbourne's GPO shopping precinct. All the fixtures, fittings, wall art & display options had to be something that could be totally removable. Foremost, the layout and finishes had to represent her label and capture the essence of her brand. The final result would be decorated with subtle layers that would promote her W10/11 collection "The Fallen" but more importantly be adaptable to future collections and retail spaces.

Hi-pod - Department of Human Services / BKK Architects and Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

This project consists of a stainless steel-clad pod inserted into the façade of an existing public housing tower in Footscray; one of the many original Housing Commission Towers built throughout inner Melbourne in the 1960s and 70s. Effectively a residential extension, albeit elevated 3 storeys from the ground, the project employs domestic construction technologies and relatively small gestures to big effect. The project constitutes a prototype for a broader strategy to regenerate accommodation within existing high rise social housing stock, improving amenity for residents and significantly improving the environmental performance of the building’s skin, and by extension that of the units within.

Protecting us All - Human Rights Campaign - Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission / Fenton Stephens

Advertising - POS

Everyone has human rights, but a lot of people don't know it.

Colourways Australian Trend Forecast Workshop - Colourways

Design Event

The Colourways Australian Trend Forecast Workshop offers it’s members a unique forum bringing stakeholders in the design and building industries together to discuss, analyse and research the latest trends, product developments and innovations in, colour, materials and finishes. Dynamic like-minded professional designers and manufacturers share and explore possibilities using current and significant industry information. This enthusiastic think tank environment captures member contributions and assists in identifying design influences and providing a greater understanding of the trend drivers of the day.

Whispering Roots - LUI HON

Fashion Stylist

I was inspired by a woman who is civilisied, noble and appreciate with her roots. She will not trying to be whom she is not, rather to outshine of who she is. A sense of Silence, Subtlety and Fluid are the keys of this collection.

Prism of Light - L U I H O N

Fashion Design - Fashion Label

Sophistication with a twist, a vision of lightness and the ethereal is encapsulated through trademark drapes and folds in a presentation of effortless elegance.

Whispering Roots - LUI HON

Fashion Design - Fashion Label

Red Door Corner Store - Red Door Corner Store / Principle Design

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Red Door Corner Store is a small, home-style café housed in a converted MilkBar space. The café is located a short walk from High Street in Northcote, a family-orientated suburb without the hustle and bustle of the inner city.

This quiet neighborhood favorite serves wholesome and honest food while always filled with the subtle buzz of locals and new visitors.

Habitat Group Lighting Showroom - Habitat Group

Installation Design - Display

Creating a showroom that is engaging, informative and simple to guide our clients through. Our goal was to design a space that allows our clients to make informative selections, at ease, from the range of light fittings and electrical products for their new home.
The space is aimed to create a sense of brand and to communicate information visually with the use of signage/banners, colours and visual displays.

PlayMo, Drewery Alley, Melbourne CBD - City Leaks

Urban Design

A shift from 'the' city to 'your' city; A playground for urban dwellers.

BLUE LINE EDITION - felt owl mobiles - I design things.

Product Design - Homewares

The BLUE LINE EDITION mobiles were intended to provide a sculptural focal point within the interior utilising the ceiling and vertical space beyond as a decorative element, thereby allowing a layering of elements such as lighting, furniture and paintings.

Lonsdale Street, Dandenong - Places Victoria / Electrolight

Lighting Design

Central Dandenong has a unique cultural richness, a dynamic produce market, performing arts precinct and distinctive retail sector, yet the economic decline of the city over many years, took its toll on the overall civic character and public realm experience.

The aspiration was to recreate Lonsdale Street, between Foster and Clow Streets, as a major boulevard exemplifying design excellence and renewing a sense of civic pride for the community of Dandenong.

Electrolight designed the lighting to the entire precinct including a custom lighting feature installed in the central median of Lonsdale Street in collaboration with artist David Sequeira. Our aim was to create an iconic feature that metaphorically represented the range of cultures in arguably one of Australia’s most culturally diverse regions.

STOXBOX - STOXBOX

Product Design - Consumer

Stoxbox is a completely new, innovative product. Designed to help you easily see and store your hosiery.

Apura Green Branding - Anagenix Ltd / Wink Brand Design

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Apura Green™ (the product) was born out of market demand for a healthier, natural ingredient that improves the overall nutritional content and quality of food and beverage goods.

Fitzgerald Optometrist - Fitzgerald Optometrist / Two Design

Interior Design - Retail

A new premises space for an existing optometrist in Williamstown presented both challenges and opportunities given the shape of the site; large height with a narrow width. The space was designed to fit in with the demographic, with a major focus on creating a different retail experience than that of the standard uninspiring optometrist.

Vignenote - Società Agricola Borgo Santa Giulia Srl / Raineri Design Srl

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

The study of a Corporate Identity for a winery which produces not only wine, but also has its own recording studio, music room, holiday farm and restaurant.

The agency has developed a concept uniting music and wine, with a clear promise: you will hear the sound of wine.

Triptych Penthouse Brochure - Stable Properties / Büro North

Graphic Design - Publication

Triptych is a premier boutique apartment address located in the heart of Melbourne's Arts and Entertainment precinct. Comprising of both affordable and high end luxury living options, we were engaged to create a high end brochure that communicated the luxury of newly available and exclusive Triptych Penthouse apartments.

The Penthouse brochure was to be used as a sales tool for both the local and international markets, and therefore inherently needed to reflect the rich values of the building and the luxury of the address via its tone, imagery and over all design.

dedece - dedece

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

dedece is a family owned business operating for more than 30 years. Their primary mission has always been to supply architectural products to the A + D community, meanwhile supporting the industry and nurturing young Australian designers by partnering them up with European manufacturers.

Capi Sparkling - Capi / CIP Creative

Graphic Design - Three Dimensional

CIP Creative created a Packaging solution for new range of soft drinks for Capi Beverages.

The Merrywell - Crown Melbourne / CIP Creative

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

The Merrywell is a new Gastronomic Pub located on the Crown Riverside.

agIdeas International Design Week - Design Fountation

Design Event

agIdeas International Design Week is one of the largest and most prestigious design festivals in the world. Established in 1991 by Ken Cato and developed and presented by the Design Foundation in Melbourne, Australia. agIdeas offers an extraordinary program of events that celebrate design excellence and promotes the value of design driven innovation.

Throughout the festival there are a series of events for designers who are seeking inspiration, for designers emerging in the industry to explore the possibilities of careers in design, for companies looking to embrace design as an economic driver, for design researchers to share knowledge, for primary school children to understand design and become the leaders of a design savvy generation and for members of the general public interested in design, innovation and creativity.

Dan Murphy's, Pakenham, Vic - Dan Murphy's / McCartney Design

Interior Design - Retail

A new store concept for Dan Murphy's

Circa - Prince of Wales Hotel St. Kilda - The Melbourne Pub Group / Design Collective Meme

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

The Prince of Wales Hotel in St. Kilda Melbourne has been an institution within the local community since 1936. From the beginning the venue has attracted a young, stylish, and vibrant clientele. Over the past 70+ years it became known for its culture of bohemianism and as home to many prominent artists, musicians, and subcultures. More recently it has received countless awards for its architectural design, food, and hotel service. "Meme" was approached by new owner Julian Gerner (2011) to carefully upgrade the "CIRCA" bar and dining room to a more laid back and attainable atmosphere. Mindful of the building's history and predecessors, the challenge was to once again re-invent and reconfigure the space by complimenting the existing bones through traces of change. Spaces were re-programmed and activated to engage and also reflect the Melbourne Pub Group's own "savvy" brand (also owners of The Middle Park Hotel, Albert Park Hotel, Royal Saxon and New Market Hotel). The new look of Circa, amongst its brothers and sisters, offers a crowd attracting destination bar.

The Etiquette Winter 2012 Collection - Etiquette Handbags and Wallets

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

The handbags and wallets from the Etiquette Winter 2012 Collection, serve above and beyond the necessary function of a practical accessory. Each Etiquette handbag or wallet is a portable piece of art, a faithful companion, a container of treasures and a keeper of secrets.

The designs are conspicuous creations; they are noticeable and admirable. There is an element of surprise in each piece, and this surprise, is ironically steady throughout the Collection. Using rare vintage leathers and new sustainable materials, each part of the design is unique and exclusive.

Style and quality sit at the heart of Etiquette Handbags & Wallets. They apply these ideals to every detail of everything they do, from conception of design to completion of product.

i-knead massager - Whreel Industries

Product Design - Sport and Leisure

Over ten years of the patent process, design drawings, meetings and testing, we were finally totally satisfied with the multi directional movement of the massager.

SStiff and tired muscles, as well as bruising are relieved by the pressure placed on the affected area causing the blood to circulate again.

Beach House : Skin & Shelter - Private Client / Melbourne Design Studios

Architecture - Residential - Proposed

Is it a roof ? Is it a wall ? What is it?

It blurs boundaries between traditional building elements, so we like to call it ‘skin and shelter’ instead. With a simple gesture - almost like forming a C-shape with your hand - the folded skin protects from being overlooked by neighbours, and from where the elements are harsh. The shelter structure leans over the remnants of an existing 1960’s beach house on the opposite side, completely transforming and absorbing this existing ‘box’ into the new ‘creature’.

And in-between? There’s practically nothing, the spaces formed in-between old and new open up front and back, to make the most of the amazing views either end. Just a simple gesture of shelter and skin where it’s needed.

Brisbane Trophies - Tennis Australia / R-Co Brand Identity

Product Design - Sport and Leisure

The Brisbane International Tennis event is a major tournament leading up to the Australian Open. They commissioned R-Co to provide designs for the perpetual male (The Roy Emerson Trophy) and female (Evonne Goolagong-Cawley Trophy) trophies, individual and runners up were also designed. R-Co took inspiration from the Brisbane International brandmark with its circular elements symbolic of the Brisbane River and a tennis ball. Collaborating with the Industrial design firm Charlwood Design, the perpetual Trophy at 60cm height has a plinth for Winners inscription and the smaller player trophy stands at 30cm in height.

The Runners Up Trophies incorporate the brandmark elements and are free standing plaques.

To differentiate the male and female trophies colour from the Brisbane International brand mark, it uses blue for male and orange for female. The Trophies have integrated well- considered Industrial design, materials that add interest and lustre to the impression, and engineering techniques into the final sculptured forms.

Havelock Alterations - Private / Irons McDuff Architecture

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

This new extension to the existing heritage dwelling frames a new courtyard between old and new, while elevating the bedroom sanctuary in amongst the tree tops of the rear park.

Banana Basket - Power to Make

Product Design - Homewares

An array is a systematic arrangement of objects. The morphology of this collection is based on a single based profile rotated around a point. The z-axis is then manipulated with the sinusoid function y(t) = A • sin(?t + ?). Variations to the axis location produce differentiated effects and volume, in this case the Banana Basket.

Hawk & Hunter Cafe - Tommy Collins Events / Perrett Ewert Leaf Pty Ltd

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

The design for Hawk and Hunter café in Ripponlea is one that provokes and entices patrons with a quirky fitout synonymous with the Tommy Collins brand. The simplicity of the layout and the finish engenders a vibrant, warm space in an area crying out for quality food, coffee and atmosphere.

Design Island - Design Centre Tasmania

Design Event

Design Island 2012 highlighted the diversity and excellence in craftsmanship of established and emerging Tasmanian product designers. The event involved significant collaboration between the Design Centre Tasmania and the next generation of Architects to graduate from UTAS School of Architecture & Design.

Silver Top Taxi Headquarters - Silver Top Taxi / Baldasso Cortese Architects

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

The history of Silver Top Taxi is synonymous with Melbourne. Within 15 years of the establishment of Melbourne, Joseph Gange established a family business with horse drawn Hansom Cabs which through the historic Astoria Taxi Company was to become today’s Silver Top Taxi. Following a fire, the new Silver Top Headquarters and depot has re-opened at the old Rupert Street Collingwood site.

A state of the art facility designed by local Collingwood architects Baldasso Cortese and built by the Becton Group stands as a testament to Victoria's largest taxi network. The new building, which cost over $10 million to develop and build, houses Silver Tops leading satellite booking technology, enabling them to provide taxis to customers in the quickest time frame.

As a very proud operations manager stated "this is arguably the best taxi network building in the world". And who wouldn't agree - not only does it make a marvellous statement, but has already created efficiencies for both customers and taxi owners. It has also provided a home for Taxi memorabilia collector Kevin Gange to exhibit his collection in what is believed to be Australia's first Taxi Museum.

36 Can Party Cooler - Willow Ware Australia Pty Ltd

Product Design - Consumer

A simple cooler box aimed at outdoors and party usage that can nest multiple units for transport and entertaining. An integrated lid hinge design enables access without excessive cooling loss. A truely useful cooler at the centre of every party.

Heide Museum of Modern Art Website - Heide Museum of Modern Art / fatfish

Digital Experience - Website

The world famous Heide Museum of Modern Art needed a website to reflect their position as a leading exhibitor of Australian art. Enter fatfish.

BRIGHTON STREET - C/- RACHCOFF VELLA ARCHITECTURE / RACHCOFF VELLA ARCHITECTURE

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The burdening design challenges of this unique inner-city site have yielded an innovative and surprisingly over-scaled addition to a run-down Victorian cottage.

PAKINGTON STREET - C/- RACHCOFF VELLA ARCHITECTURE / RACHCOFF VELLA ARCHITECTURE

Interior Design - Residential

RACHCOFF VELLA ARCHITECTURE has opted for an unconventional response to the inner-city vernacular.

The typical brief when renovating an inner-city terrace house is; keep the facade and two front rooms for heritage, knock off the back and start again. With a tight budget and timeline Rachcoff Vella Architecture (RVA) took a more innovative approach with this St Kilda pad. Working within the existing envelope, RVA transformed the dark and awkward investment property into a light-filled, spacious home.

Newcombe - Tennis Australia / R-Co Brand Identity

Product Design - Sport and Leisure

The Newcombe Medal is awarded by Tennis Australia to an individual who has reached a pinnacle of achievement. The identity and brand image was created by R-Co who collaborated with Charlwood Design to develop a unique outer presentation case design, which enabled the medal to be protected and also act as a display mount. The transparent, perspex shell case allowed the medal to be viewed when the case was closed, and enhanced the brand perception upon presentation.

Convesso Concavo Display Suite - Lend Lease / Bates Smart Pty Ltd

Interior Decoration

The fluid forms of the twin residential towers Convesso Concavo will stand against a dramatic city skyline when completed at the end of 2012. Harbourside water views are a prime asset completing the tranquil setting.

Bates Smart Architecture and Interior disciplines collaborated in the spatial planning of the generously proportioned apartments, designed to maximise north facing unobstructed waterfront views. The interiors feature finely detailed, well considered kitchens, bathrooms and joinery with a timeless palette of neutral finishes.

roofPOP! - Rooftop Bar / Fitt De Felice

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

roofPOP! began with the fundamental qualities of temporary and sustainable, plus a connection to parent bar, Rooftop. Originally we intended to reuse Rooftop’s discarded plastic cups on mass as a sustainable design generator. Whilst this wasn’t possible, it inspired the eventual design solution and is key to the concept of recycled cups generating ‘bubbles’. Our overall material strategy was to prioritise recyclability, thus plywood, paint, paper, plastic cups and fake grass were used.

Serif Stool - Charles Wilson

Product Design - Furniture

Taking it’s inspiration from the flow of pouring metal, the Serif stool is formed from a single flowing surface that seems to resemble some kind of industrial component. The name Serif comes from the front profile which looks like a capital I.

Huntr Brand Identity - Huntr Group / Davidson Branding

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Huntr is a new breed of retail procurement specialists.
With over 20 years experience working with leading retailers and a strong global network, we can track down the most effective, innovative solution from anywhere around the globe and deliver it to you with the utmost efficiency. After all, in this competitive environment, being quick to market is critical.

ShopScience Brand Identity - ShopScience / Davidson Branding

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

ShopScience is a well established consumer insights company specialising in the retail sector. We developed the brand essence ‘Translating insights into competitive advantage’ and then created a brand symbol to bring this idea to life. The structure of our brand symbol reflects ShopScience’s rigorous, systematic approach – information gathering, analysis, and ultimately, the translation of insights into improvement strategies. The feeling of precision that is created by the fine lines and the spectrum of colours elude to the visual language of science.

Heron Island Brand Identity - Delaware North Australia / Davidson Branding

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Heron Island is known for the vast range of wildlife that families can explore and interact with. We developed the brand essence ‘Nature’s Wonderland’ and then created a brand symbol that describes the wildlife that is present on the land and in the surrounding ocean. The circular form of the symbol recalls a swirling vortex of circling fish and reflects the personality of the brand – vibrant, natural and active.

Slade Compoundia Identity System - Slade Health / Davidson Branding

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Whether it's your domestic tabby or an exotic bird, animals can be very particular about what they will ingest.

Treating them with conventional medication can be a frustrating and difficult for the vet and for the owner. If they don't like the smell or the taste of something they will walk away.

Slade Compoundia specialise in preparing drugs that will be ingested by the most discerning animal – pastes for ‘Sylvester’ that taste like Tuna or liver for ‘Rover’. Compoundia can even make Chocolate flavoured medication for your Macaw who is used to eating the finer things in life.

Slade Compoundia make medication for the most discerning food critics.

NAB brand identity - NAB / Principals

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Nab is number 4 of the ‘big 4’ banks in this country. At times struggling to have a voice amongst very active competition, the bank redefined its vision and mapped out a strategy in a bold attack on the other 3. A desire to become one brand with one voice has been driving the business forward for the past 12-18 months. There have been significant implications on the visual identity for the brand and its associated businesses, as it attempts to visually and tonally bring its business streams into alignment. Principals were engaged to review the brand identity across the business, from the core retail brand through to Business and Private Wealth.

Heirloom by Alpa Patel (Self Commissioned) - Alpa Patel

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

The editor of Marie Claire Australia recently lauded fashion’s current flirtation with Art Deco; the opulent, vintage-inspired chic designs, combining jewels and delicate detailing!

Melbourne-based designer Alpa Patel loves standout pieces, bold accessories and clever mixes of texture – ribbons, metal, beads and leather – which she combined with her love for old world opulence.

Consumed by worrying about where vintage pieces go to when they die and indeed how to resurrect them, Alpa hit upon an idea to perennialise jewellery: to create something new from something old. She sources vintage jewellery from around the world and also custom fabricates some components with the idea of bring them all together in one multi-generational piece. The range is not so much created or constructed, but discovered out of reclaimed jewellery and material, each then lovingly handmade to an exacting standard of detail.

Jewellery can be pleasurable and meaningful, or meaningful because it’s pleasurable. And that’s Alpa’s overarching idea – to make the pleasurable continuously meaningful.

cBraille - A lighting exhibition for people who are blind - cSigns

Installation Design - Exhibit

Did you know 90% of people who are blind see light?

cBraille is an exhibition to raise awareness about the importance of light for people with vision impairments. Using Dome tipped LEDs as braille, a person who is blind can locate the braille with their eyes and read the tips of the LEDs with their fingers, like regular braille.

Toys”R”Us Online Store - Toys”R”Us Australia / Powerfront Pty. Ltd

Digital Experience - Website

Powerfront proudly presents the latest masterpiece – Toys"R"Us Australia (www.toysrus.com.au).

The brand new mega store offers more toys and games online with Australia-wide delivery. It is meticulously crafted to provide an unparalleled online shopping experience.

Need to see all products within a category? Check out the new mega menu. Looking for a recommendation? See the product’s rating and review to help you decide. Need to purchase a gift for your 3-year old cousin? Use the product finder to find the best match.

Visit www.toysrus.com.au now and enjoy the weekly online deal.

EightyEight Beaconsfield Identity - EightyEight Beaconsfield / Principle Design

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Eighty Eight consists of a selection of luxury residential apartments located opposite Port Phillip Bay beach front. The high level architectural merit of Eighty Eight includes both innovative sustainability features and prominent public art.

Edithvale Wetlands Discovery Centre - Melbourne Water / Principle Design

Graphic Design - Environmental

Principle Design was commissioned by Melbourne Water to assist in developing a unique educational discovery centre in Edithvale. The Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands are all that remains of the Carrum Carrum Swamp that once covered more than 4000 hectares, stretching from Mordialloc in the north to Frankston in the south. In 2001 the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands were listed as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention.

Plantation - St Ali / Sensory Lab / Barbara and Fellows

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

The Plantation brand invokes associations with the colonial era– leafy coffee plantations and ornate architecture. In creating a flag-ship home for this brand, the design team translated these references into the space at the Melbourne Central Dining Hall through the use of warm and tactile materials and customer focused planning.

Billi Instant Boiling & Chilled Filtered Drinking Water System - Billi / Design + Industry

Product Design - Consumer

An instantaneous chilled and boiling water delivery system featuring environmental improvements to create the lowest carbon footprint option in the current market. With a pre-filtration system to provide health benefits, eliminating sediment, chemicals and heavy metals from town supply water.

With 3 models including Lever, Touch electronic and Touch remote, the range also incorporates an industry first flush mount integrated bench font. Primarily used in office and institutional environments, it is also widely applicable and used in homes.

Redesigned from every aspect with a people focus, from usability, lifestyle, living and work trends as well as sensitivity to contemporary interior design. Using a universal design emphasis the resultant range has been developed for all walks of life, considering the most able and most challenged dexterity user types to create not only a highly usable and safe product for all but extends to incorporate aspects from environmental impact and efficiency, to manufacturing reliability, cost and life cycle.

Extensively researched, developed and validated. Users as well as industry professionals including architects, designers, and specifiers were utilised in a collaborative process to identify opportunities and to meet needs for now and into the foreseeable future.

REDFLEXspeed - Redflex / Design + Industry

Product Design - Business and Technology

The Redflex suite of next generation fixed speed camera breaks new ground in technology and aesthetics by redefining a product category in enhanced detection rate and accuracy, visual form and styling that integrates into the super modern urban environments of Abu Dhabi.

Umi - GE Capital / Milo&Co

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

A bright, new option in the online lending world for GE Capital, Umi is a brand with a big personality. Its aim is to offer a simple, smart and hassle-free way to finance personal goals.

1960's Residence Refurbishment - Arium Design / Arium Design

Interior Design - Residential

Refurbishment of a mid-century modernist residence and upper storey extension that required fine detailing during construction to help tie the proposed architecture and aesthetic decisions together.

Open House Melbourne 2012 - Open House Melbourne

Design Event

Open House Melbourne aims to engage public to understand our city; its past, present and future. We do this through opening buildings of interest, providing information on the significance of each building, promoting design and explaining design concepts – and we make it FREE as design is for everyone.

Open House Melbourne is an annual, free weekend-long event in July for Melburnians and visitors to learn more about and appreciate the architecture, urban design and design excellence of our city.

The free Speaker Series, held in the lead up to the event weekend, allows the public to understand how discussions on architecture are framed by architects, and most importantly to unveil the multitude of design processes that are implemented by architects to create our significant architectural buildings.

Freefold Popup Box - Toby Horrocks Architecture

Product Design - Furniture

A modular, stackable storage system that unfolds.

Green Magazine #25 & #26 - Green Magazine

Design Publication - Print

green is Australia's leading architecture magazine focusing on inspiring sustainable house, product and garden designs.

Melbourne Water Innovation Program - Melbourne Water / Milo&Co

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Melbourne Water's Innovation Program was an inspiring internal campaign developed to foster a culture where staff ideas can flourish.

Sticks & Stone - ashallen.com

Product Design - Furniture

Inspired by two elements from a japanese rock garden, I designed and created this outdoor stool with simplicity and sustainability as key objectives.

The strong, open, triangulated base uses salvaged Tas. Oak dowel and is fastened using pinned and threaded joinery - no glue is required to flat-pack assemble or disassemble.

The cast "stone" seat incorporates recycled rubber crumb for texture and toughness - its solidity and roughness contrasting with the crisp, "airiness" of the base.

Tension between the elements creates maximum visual impact for minimal environmental footprint.

Ideal for a back patio or garden setting, the seats are available in custom red, blue, grey and white colours, with or without rubber.
Matching bar stool, side table and coffee table are also available on request.

Lonsdale Street Redevelopment, Dandenong - Places Victoria / TCL/BKK Partnership

Urban Design

Lonsdale Street is the first key infrastructure project delivered as part of the State Government’s Revitalising Central Dandenong (RCD) Initiative. The RCD Initiative seeks to restore central Dandenong as the capital of Melbourne’s south east bringing new energy and amenity to the heart of this richly diverse urban centre.

Central Dandenong has a unique cultural richness, a dynamic produce market, performing arts precinct and distinctive retail sector, yet the economic decline of the city over many years, took its toll on the overall civic character and public realm experience.

Lonsdale Street was historically a prosperous retail spine but in recent years had developed into a major arterial route dissecting the retail heart and creating a significant physical and psychological barrier to the city. Lonsdale Street was redesigned as a grand boulevard with a pedestrian focus. Through traffic was concentrated into a central band defined by four rows of trees. Adjacent to the retail frontages, a broad tree lined plaza, shared traffic zones and linear gardens provide a pedestrian realm of generosity and distinction. The design is an example of an interdisciplinary approach to the construction of the city involving expertise across a wide range of disciplines.

'In the Spirit' - LOBE

Product Design - Homewares

I have been on a journey, discovering the infinate possibilities within the discarded manufactured bottle. I began with the easily accessible beer stubby, washing, cutting and using heat to open it out to become the simplest of re-usable forms, the tumbler. I became inspired to use more of the bottle, cutting the tops off to make beads now glorified in my new jewellery collection (launching Design Made Trade July 2012).

Currently I am focused on the spirit bottle. Cultural heritages are captured within intricate embossings, forms are dynamic and striking, colour is purposful and seductive. It has been important for me to take time to appreciate the ready-made and work with what exists.

I was naturally attracted to the dramatic form and lines of the Sambuca bottle, it screamed of elegance. I worked to create a set, attempting to rekindle a culture of style our grandparents would appreciate.

Harper Lane - Neometro Projects

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Harper Lane sits on ‘leftover’ land wrapping around a 1930s telephone exchange. The project provides 65 residential apartments and 1 commercial tenancy within 2 buildings, varying in height from 3 to 6 storeys.

The repeating floor plan is an economical design that also provides a high level of internal amenity for residents with all apartments having cross ventilation and good access to natural daylight.

A small café, creating activity at street level, is located next to the entry walkway to maximize opportunities for interaction. A communal garden was created along the northern boundary, beneath a row of existing established trees that maintain screening between the new apartments and the neighbouring residences. Externally black detailing and natural timber relieve a simple palette of grey and white concrete. Robust elevations are enlivened by external blinds in 2 shades of green, and climbing vines growing on the facades.

A 6 star energy rating was achieved using passive solar design principles, including north facing glazing to many of the apartments, and exposed concrete floors and shared thermal mass. External shading of glazing and walls and cross-ventilation minimises reliance on air conditioning. Rainwater is harvested for toilet flushing and garden irrigation.

T Residence - Shareen Joel Design / Shareen Joel Design

Interior Design - Residential

T Residence suggests a classic approach, applied in a contemporary manner. We reinvigorated an existing single storey Georgian home with an all new floor plan and double storey extension. Particular fixtures and features were retained and relocated for the new architecture.

Sorrento Beach House - Shareen Joel Design

Interior Design - Residential

Built on a relatively small, low lying site adjacent to the Sorrento Sailing Club on the Mornington Peninsula, the brief for the home design was to accommodate a family of 4 with room for plenty of guests, family, friends and utilities for all the sailing equipment. The budget called for a ‘smart’ design solution.

The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne - Lend Lease / Büro North

Wayfinding

In 2011, The Royal Children's Hospital moved to its new purpose built facility to provide world class paediatric care and a patient and family focused healing environment. The new project, which has been purpose built for children brings together six levels of clinical, research and education facilities.

In partnership with The New Royal Children's Hospital, Bates Smart, Billard Leece Partnership and many other consultants, we were engaged
to collaborate on this uniquely child centric project focused on designing spaces for children that are engaging, stimulating and above all, healing.

Just Wrapt Kiosk - Just Wrapt Pty Ltd / Toothpicks Creative Pty Ltd

Interior Design - Retail

Just Wrapt Brand Development and Kiosk Design. We designed an organic looking logo to go with a sexy, innovative, curvy kiosk made from composite materials. A prototype mould has been fabricated and each kiosk is rolled out from the original moulds at a very low cost per unit. This innovative concept is particularly attractive to franchise as the cost to build subsequent kiosks is very low. The first 2 stores are open in Westfield Southland and Victoria Gardens.

Thirty Eight Chairs - Thirty Eight Chairs / R-Co Brand Identity

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

A small Italian restaurant in Bond Street requested an identity using the following mandatories: capital letters, full wording, and an identity that reflected the minimal restaurant interior of stone, timber, steel and glass.

The Design Files - The Design Files

Design Publication - Online

The Design Files is Australia's most popular design blog, receiving 600,000 hits each month. Launched in 2008 by Lucy Feagins, the site covers design in all its forms, from architecture and home interiors to fine art, graphic design and illustration and everything in between.

dmzine - Mackay Branson design

Design Publication - Online

dmzine contains hints and tips to help designers manage their design studio better.

It's not the type of content you will find in management books or university courses – it's a collection of articles based on 25 years experience running a design business in Australia. Every article directly relates to managing a design practice.

Cloud 9 - MAAM

Visual Merchandising

This window installation was conceived as a representation of the change in seasons from summer through to autumn. The initial brief outlined the need for a striking yet unique representation of hand made glass bottles and ceramics. The representation of clouds was made with a collection of recycled paper bags simply filled with air then tied together, forming a very organic and strikingly engaging element over.

Un-Waste Bookcase - Eco-Innovators / Bild Architecture

Interior Design - Residential

Playful and inventive, the UnWaste bookcase transformed an inner-city apartment from a conventional ‘open plan’ blank canvas, into something else, part James Bond, part Transformer, a joinery unit with a hidden agenda.

The full-wall rotating bookcase, constructed from reclaimed construction hording-board plywood oozes eclectic charm and tells stories through its multi-layered and colourful past. The plywood originally used for the temporary barriers at the edge of construction sites, was sourced and used as the principal material for the project. With it’s unique characteristics of posters, weathering, graffiti and mismatched paints incorporated into the design and harmonizing with the industrial aesthetic of the apartment, while saving nearly 1 Ton of material from landfill.

A collaboration between architect Ben Milbourne (Bild Architecture), eco-designer Leyla Acaroglu (Eco Innovators) and specialist furniture designer David Waterworth (Against the Grain); the UnWaste Bookcase is an inventive response to a challenging brief to maintain the openness, light and air in a city warehouse conversion, while adding flexibility of use and a unique character.

PCD Elements - Peter Coombs Design

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

PCD Elements - Designer Eyewear Collection.

Handcrafted jewellery for the face, inspired by beautiful and functional elements for everyday pleasure. PCD Elements is an exclusive range of limited edition, titanium and sterling silver eyewear. The collection offers balance and styling, delivering elegant and enduring eyewear. The construction methodology is unique to PCD with the hinge element as the identifying feature, reinforcing strength whilst being integral to the overall chic design. 5 styles, 5 colours, 25 possibilities.

Doherty Lynch Office - Doherty Lynch / Doherty Lynch

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

This interior was part of a holistic rebranding process for the client. A contemporary office shell on a busy road, it required a full fit-out to transform it into a highly functional compact workspace for eight that reflected the new branding direction for this business.

Flower Burnside - Doherty Lynch / Doherty Lynch

Interior Design - Retail

The brief was to create an original and slightly quirky store for the mass market. The space needed to be soft, warm and enticing with an allure of affordable luxury and clothing displayed for ease of browsing and understanding of how garments work together. This revamp of the existing brand’s identity is to be rolled out to 30 existing stores and 30 new stores.siness.

King St - Natasha Chu Design / Pioneering Bathroom Designs

Interior Design - Residential

The original bathrooms were tired, dated and unpractical with the main, small in size and having an awkward structural shape. Both bathrooms did not make use of the existing space and were in need of a complete renovation.

A significant part of the renovation was the change in layouts, making the main bathroom more spacious and the ensuite retaining its generous size.

Pioneering Bathroom Designs and Natasha Chu Design worked in collaboration to create two new sleek, contemporary and minimal bathrooms. The main aim being perfection in design, form and function

Ebony Bar at designEX 2012 - Diversified Exhibitions / UNO and 6 Hats

Installation Design - Exhibit

Located at the hub of designEX for 2012 was the official pop-up bar ‘Ebony’, a destination created to meet the needs and wants of the most discerning bar hopper.

Global Professional Consulting Firm - N/A / Artillery Interior Architecture

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

Our client, a global professional consulting firm, is like a doctor for organisations. The firm is appointed by often competing businesses to advise on business, approach, and policy. It is for this reason that the organisation is fragmented for much of the time in order to keep information safe. Teams are formed to work on projects for a set duration. Cross-fertilization mostly occurs within smaller project teams. Despite this, our client wanted the design to reflect the power of one firm. It was crucial that team members were not isolated and that collaboration on neutral territory was possible.

eleven04 Self Promotional Campaign - eleven04 Creative

Advertising - POS

With so many studios around our aim was to make an impact & stand out both visually and conceptually. We've decided to target small to medium size by creating a piece that personally addresses marketing managers, business owners, directors or general managers. Our concept of "when your brand needs a boost" is the moto of eleven04 creative. We've combined with the quirky image of Popeye and his can of spinach as we want to communicate that we will give your company the boost needed to stand out.

Klag - LAB DE STU

Product Design - Furniture

Klag - an experiment consisting of a new concrete substitute and it's structural ability.

My Patch - State of Design Festival / Artillery Interior Architecture

Event Experience - Consumer

My Patch My City is designed as an events program for children to stimulate ideas and discussion surrounding environmental issues and sustainable living. The event is focused on linking design, sustainability and the community through a creative, interactive and fun learning experience. The approach is to promote sound social, environmental and ecological values through working with children, families and communities.

Ernest Foldable Stool - Ernest Studio

Product Design - Furniture

The 'Ernest Foldable Stool' is a simple solution to an easy fold-away stool, focused towards functional ernest furniture, assisting with the lack of space and storage in everyday situations. The stool is made of a solid timber (various options) and hinged with steel pins through brass bearings, erected with a simple ‘U’ pin and disassembled simply by its removal. As it folds flat it is easily stored away, allowing those with little storage space to accommodate for their guests or customers with more furniture options.

Alice Euphemia - Alice Euphemia / Edwards Moore

Interior Design - Retail

The new store design for Alice Euphemia aimed to transform the existing space into an entirely new retail experience focusing on the experiential.

The fitout is based on the notion of an internal ‘terrain’ which connects both levels of the store, the area beneath this terrain is transformed through the use of colour and lighting into a comfortable cave-like space in which the clothes are displayed like jewels on a series of sweeping rails which appear to float in the space.

The timber terrain is gently stained to maintain a sense of their materiality, the underside in a dark tint and the upper surfaces limed white. The terrain offers opportunity for display across their entire surface, supporting mannequins and bespoke acrylic display boxes which can be reconfigured to suit the change in seasons & ranges.

The path of travel has been carefully considered to encourage the customer to engage with the new store, the flexibility of the design allowing for the store to regularly change, keeping the interest of the frequent visitor whilst maintaining a sense of awe for those new to the brand.

Tipsy - Cloud Studio Melbourne Pty Ltd

Product Design - Furniture

“Tipsy” is a chair one way and when flipped over, it becomes a bar-stool. The name refers to the action of tipping over the chair to use it as a stool and secondly it is a play on the different meanings of the word tipsy. The design is a result of an investigation into how square forms can morph into round ones and the ensuing hybrid shapes created.

material: polyethylene (rotomoulded). U.V. stabilised
dimensions: 800mm High, 600mm wide, 500mm deep – chair seat height: 450mm bar-stool: 700mm
weight: 9 kg
colours: dark red, red, orange, yellow, lime green, light green, dark green, purple, pink, aqua, light blue, dark blue, black, white, light grey and dark grey

Revitalising Central Dandenong - Vic Urban / Büro North

Graphic Design - Environmental

Büro North were commissioned by VicUrban, in partnership with the City of Greater Dandenong as part of a major urban renewal program that will see the city move to the forefront of pedestrian centric urban design. We were engaged to develop a wayfinding strategy that considered not only the needs of the traffic, but more importantly the needs of cyclists and pedestrians as the city moves towards becoming one of the first shared space cities in Australia. By reclaiming the streets as boulevards and pedestrian zones, Dandenong has become a Worlds Best Practice example of urban wayfinding and a leader of urban signage within Australia.

Chisholm & Gamon Rebrand - Chisholm & Gamon Property / Square Circle Triangle

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

For the C&G rebrand we explored further than just successful property businesses — we explored businesses that pioneer innovation, customer service, retail and importantly — team.

Say 'Hello' to the new Chisholm & Gamon.

Lucy Folk - Lucy Folk Jewellery / Inglis Architects

Interior Design - Retail

The brief from the client was to create a flagship store with a fitout that embodied the Jewellery brand. The client was excited to have the opportunity to convey the inspiration for the jewellery design in an interior. The store was to be fun and playful whilst having a strong sense of itself not borrowing from empty trends.

The Council of Textile & Fashion Industries of Australia (TFIA) Website - TFIA / Square Circle Triangle

Digital Experience - Website

Accessible. Responsive. Impressive. TFIAs newly released website is a love-child of responsive design.

Intercoiffure Salon Websites - Intercoiffure Mondial Australia / Square Circle Triangle

Digital Experience - Website

Intercoiffure Mondial and SCT collaborated in developing a web presence for salons stretching from New York, to London, Tokyo and Berlin.

Ted Grambeau Website - Adventures In Light / Square Circle Triangle

Digital Experience - Website

World-renowned photographer and water-man, Ted Grambeau, travels the planet documenting waves, surfing, characters and locations.

State Library of Victoria Digital Information Tower - State Library of Victoria / Harkess-Ord

Installation Design - Display

The State Library of Victoria is one of Melbourne's pre-eminent cultural institutions with visitor numbers of more than 1.5 million annually.

In 2003 they re-expressed their founder’s principle in the tagline ‘Information. Ideas. Inspiration. For Everyone.' Then a few years later, they embarked on the slv21 strategy, Where they declared the Library’s aspiration for the digital age to ‘put information into the hands of all Victorians when and where they want it’.

The first physical representation of that strategy was to introduce a future-facing tower that will become the platform to launch digital technology that visitors could interact with.

Harkess-Ord was engaged to develop a tower that will act as a focal point whilst remaining simpatico with the language of the architecture of the library and hold current and future digital technology.

The Footy Show - Nine Network / Baenziger Coles Pty Ltd

Installation Design - Set Design

The Footy Show has been one of the strongest rating shows for Nine for many years. From its inception, the show has pushed the boundaries of controversial commentary on the game of football. In the past, this show has been staged in the production studios at Bendigo Street, Richmond. Nine now hosts its production from Docklands. The set for 2012 has been designed to better utilize this new environment, and is captivating with its contemporary feel and strong graphic content. The new configuration of set and audience provide an engaging arena for footy comment.

The Grove House - Doherty Lynch / Doherty Lynch

Interior Design - Residential

A significant part of the renovation was to retain the original part of the Victorian house, then create a new, contemporary addition and integrate it with the old.

While the contemporary area has soaring three-meter windows flooding the space with natural light, Doherty Lynch have enhanced the somber feeling in the original by use of paint color selection and keeping lighting minimal. This highlights the transition from the dark original section of the house to the lighter new addition.

Doherty Lynch have created a home with an elegant but playful feel. Overall the palette of materials is in keeping with the Victorian aesthetic but then the occasional pushing of expectations like the crushed tin pendant over the dining table.

VDM furniture designs - Vue de Monde / Didier

Product Design - Furniture

"Ross Didier has a way of creating drama with his work that brings a natural star power to proceedings, the X factor if you will.

His latest seating pieces create a glamourisation of furniture design for much celebrated restaurant Vue De Monde in Melbourne."
Romona Berry

The Pod - Rogerseller / MAAM

Installation Design - Display

The pod is about encapsulating the user with a sense of space that can be related back to self. Focus was given to creating a cocooned feel within the pod whilst framing and allowing a focus and a softening of usually stark bath wares and finishes.

Cloud House - Private / McBride Charles Ryan

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The Cloud House is an addition and renovation to a double-fronted Edwardian-era house in Fitzroy North. McBride Charles Ryan’s work for the house is designed in three distinct parts. The original structure is retained with minimal modification, while a cloud-shaped extrusion, a dramatic extension to the living space, is added at the rear of the property. The third element, a central red kitchen ‘box’, acts as a pivot, linking these contrasting spaces.

Tote Stool - Convert Studios

Product Design - Furniture

A stackable stool designed for any environment.

Spicer's Paper School - Spicers Paper / R-Co Brand Identity

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

To develop a brand identity and communication strategy that repositioned "The PaperPoint Paper School" as "Spicers Paper School" with a new image and presentation format.

The Spicers Paper School is a contribution by Spicers to the understanding of the advertising, marketing and design industry about all aspects involved with paper, print and production. As a knowledge service, the brand identity was required to connect, inform and motivate the audience to purchase tickets to the events. A practical, skills based program, Spicers Paper School is a national event involving experts from the paper and print industries participating in workshop programs.

Great Dane - Great Dane / McCartney Design

Interior Design - Retail

The interior of Great Dane's Fitzroy showroom reflects modern Scandanavian design in a unique visitor experience.

Carter Digital Website - Carter Digital

Digital Experience - Website

A beautiful, single-page website with dapper personality. From the twinkle of the bracket moustache to the launch of the mini space ship, this site has the perfect balance of professionalism and personality.

Birdlife Australia - Fresh Brand Communications / Carter Digital

Digital Experience - Website

Take flight with this stunning visual encyclopaedia of Australian birdlife. Here, you can look up different species of birds, work on projects to help wildlife, and get regular updates on the amazing discoveries relating to our beautiful feathered friends.

Melbourne's GPO Christmas - Melbourne's GPO / Davidson Branding

Installation Design - Display

The designer brands housed in Melbourne's GPO share the same philosopy. Each offers uncompromised inspiration, sophistication and style. Our objective was to reflect these ideals in a fresh and contemporary interpretation of Christmas.

500 acrylic shards form 2 ribbons of brilliant colour. Illuminated by the Postal Hall's glass ceiling during the day, the shards shimmer and glow with light.

The Royal Children's Hospital - The Royal Children's Hospital / R-Co Brand Identity

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

To create a new identity for The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne that involved research, strategy, design and documentation suitable for on-going implementation. The brand must have the ability to convey messages of nurturing and position the RCH as the pre-eminent children's hospital in Melbourne, reassuring the staff, a wide range of stakeholders and the community of the reputation of the hospital. At the core of the hospital is a commitment to a united spirit of care for children, which the new identity was required to communicate.

The Homage - 'El Homenaje' 2012 collection - Maripossa

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

Since receiving the Young Designer Award for Accessories in Germany during Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashion Week last year, MARIPOSSA has fast become recognised as a unique label that blurs the line between metal and fabric, jewellery and accessory. Our broad mission in creating this collection was to expand our portfolio of signature woven pieces whilst continuing to push the boundaries of the common methods employed in using traditional materials for crocheting, knitting and weaving. Each and every Maripossa piece is designed and made by hand in Australia utilising various hand weaving and dip dyeing techniques.

Lizard Island Brand Identity - Delaware North Australia / Davidson Branding

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Lizard Island is an exclusive haven of unspoiled beauty positioned on The Great Barrier Reef. Created for those with champagne tastes on champagne budgets, the resort needed a brand identity that reflected its brand positioning.
Using water colour, we developed a brand symbol that described the island - a green oasis fringed with pristine white beaches and crystal clear water.

Crown Lager packaging refresh - Foster's Australia / Davidson Branding

Graphic Design - Three Dimensional

Davidson undertook a refresh of the iconic Crown Lager brand to both contemporise and reinvigorate the brand, and restore its status as a dominant player in the premium beer landscape.

Secrets Magazine Advertising - Secrets Shhh / Davidson Branding

Advertising - POS

This magazine brand campaign for Secrets Shhh was developed to re-position the brand in consumers' minds and achieve cut through in a category typified by glamorous models.

Elegant, beautiful and feminine, flowers reflect the character of Secrets jewellery and make an emotional connection with our target audience.

Our advertising created a unique and ownable look for Secrets that is stunning in its simplicity.

Hello Studio Constantine - Studio Constantine

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

To introduce Studio Constantine to the Australian market, we designed an identity suite articulating the studio’s crafted and conceptual approach.

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2013 Melbourne Design Awards - Key Dates

Shortlisted Awards Entries

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

Digital Experience - Mobile

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Product Design - Lighting

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

Interior Design - Retail

Interior Design - Residential

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Product Design - Homewares

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

Interior Design - Residential

Interior Decoration

Interior Design - Retail

Fashion Design - Fashion Label

Fashion Design - Fashion Label

Fashion Design - Fashion Label

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Product Design - Furniture

Interior Design - Residential

Digital Experience - Mobile

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Interior Design - Residential

Interior Design - Retail

Digital Experience - Website

Digital Experience - Website

Digital Experience - Website

Digital Experience - Website

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Product Design - Homewares

Textile + Surface Design - Interior

Digital Experience - Website

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

Digital Experience - Website

Digital Experience - Website

Digital Experience - Website

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

Interior Design - Residential

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

Architecture - Mixed - Use - Constructed

Interior Design - Retail

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Architecture - Residential - Proposed

Digital Experience - Mobile

Digital Experience - Website

Digital Experience - Website

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

Graphic Design - Illustration and Type

Graphic Design - Publication

Product Design - Homewares

Architecture - Residential - Proposed

Graphic Design - Illustration and Type

Product Design - Business and Technology

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Landscape Architecture

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

Fashion Design - Accessories and Jewellery

Interior Design - Corporate or Hospitality

Product Design - Sport and Leisure

Architecture - Residential - Constructed