Friday, October 21, 2011

To brighten up your Friday...

Dulux Let's Colour Project


Dulux believes that colour makes a difference, that everything can be improved with colour. The Let's Colour initiative involves communities improving their towns by painting them in vibrant colours, donated by Dulux.

This advert was filmed in 4 cities:
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, France - Aulnay Sous Bois, UK - Tower Hamlets and Jodhpur - India.

About Jodhpur:
The local community joined us in painting the Purohiton Ki Haveli community square, a boy’s school and a building on the high street. Widely known as the blue city, we splashed several tones of blue, pink and purple and left an already vibrant city even more colourful than before.

In total it took them:
Five Weeks
Four cities
with 450 people
and 4000 liters of Dulux paint

And they painted:
1 Housing block
1 Carpark
2 Schools
48 Houses

See more here and here.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The BF (best friend) is getting Hitched...

...and I've done the invites!

Its been months of drama sorting out these invites.
With a 200kb picture of what she wanted to go by - which I can't even remember now, hours of plotting patterns on CAD, drafts, more drafts...

Drafts

...my laptop crashing with ALL my software on it, a 960mb downloaded trail of photoshop and then completely redoing everything in one week to get to printers in time, the invitations are finally out! I have received my very own printed invitation (with +1). Meag's had them printed on shiny, cream coloured card and it looks fantastic. I'm very happy with them, and most importantly, she is very happy with them.

Final invites front & back...

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

I am having an early day (hopefully) and I'm going to watch several hours of "So You Think You Can Dance" with my mother and eat snacks and wear my pjs (or jimjams as my gran might call them) and adopt a generally lazy attitude.

Have a great weekend. Support the Boks at 7am Sunday morning!

Snoozing at the Airport...


My final project at college was to design an airport lounge which incorporated several different features such as a kids play area, smoking area and... an area to snooze.

So when I saw this today it intrigued me. It's called a Sleepbox and it is, as the name suggests, a box for sleeping.



The concept:







Street Murals by M E S A







Animation by: The Sun

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Skylight House in Sydney


Husband and wife team, Tony Chenchow and Stephanie Little of Chenchow Little Architects renovated this beautiful Victorian terrace house in a heritage area in Sydney, Australia. In Aus they call it a conservation streetscape. So they weren't allowed to do anything but restore the facade in order to keep the streetscape in tact. But it didn't stop them from doing this...


The Skylight House won the Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter Award 2011 Residential Architecture Award for Alterations and Additions.