Hamra House by Studio DinellJohansson // Sweden.This beautifully simple, compact summer house in Hamra, Sweden was designed by architecture studio DinellJohansson. The client initially asked for an existing barn to be converted into a summer house. Instead, DinellJohansson designed them...
Video // 8 million Flower Petals Cover a Village in Costa Rica.8 million colourful flower petals rain down on an entire Costa Rican village to promote Sony's new HD TVs. We dare you not to fall in love with this...
Kessel-Lo House by NU Architectuuratelier // Belgium.Ghent-based practice NU Architectuuratelier have refurbished this two-storey house in the suburbs of Leuven in Belgium. Can we please talk about that stair cascading down in front of the double height window? A bit of a...
Camper Flagship Showroom by Neri & Hu // Shanghai, China.The Camper store is a reinterpreted two storey traditional house, sliced in half and opening itself up to the "laneway" within the warehouse which it sits. The slice is expressed with a bright red rubber, which is the same rubber used for...
Oval Barcelona by Flexoarquitectura.You see, as much as I love a project with a big fat budget to work on or to share with you, I am also quite partial towards projects that were time and budget challenged, but have managed to rise to the occasion. I've said it before and...
Design Free Thursday // Mimicry by GiesenLeenders."Mimicry" is a quirky little series of images by Dutch photography duo Maurits Giesen and Ilse Leenders of GiesenLeenders. Each colourful scene captures two matching characters perfectly camouflaged in their environment. Without trying to...
Design Free Thursday // Body Art by Olaf Breuning.In this colour-study body art series, eclectic Swiss artist Olaf Breuning investigates the possibility of using the human form as a canvas. Red, blue, yellow and green are used against inky black background creating a super striking...
Balloon Bench | Satoshi Itasaka of h220430 Studio.Holy smokes. This has to be one of the sweetest things I've seen in AGES. First of all - how friggin gorgeous is that first photo. *Squeal!* Balloon Bench is a sculpture created by Japanese designer Satoshi Itasaka from h220430 studio....
Helga Steppan.Just the the other day, I received a little correction message on yellowtrace's facebook wall to say that one of the images I had in my Visual Diary album was incorrectly labelled. What? I know - shocking! Yes, I made a mistake. I really...
