To My Fellow Citizens of The Planet.

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

I Think I’m Turning Japanese…

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

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

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

Importance of Trust.

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

Design Free Thursday | Should I Work For Free?

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

Aichinger House by Hertl Architekten | Austria.

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

Outside Video-Projections | Ibon Mainar.

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

Thoughts/ Tangents + Books/ Magazines | 2010 Archive.

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

Aaaaand CUT. Happy Holidays!

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