Green School – Monday TED Talk
The story of John Hardy and tbe Green School in Bali is an inspriring one. Having recently come back from a business course in Bali where we had the opportunity to visit the Green School and be personally shown around by John. John started The Green School in Bali to give students a relevant, holistic and green [...]
Chit chat worth listening to
Senior Designer Anya recounts her Pecha Kucha 24 experience
Designing our environments
Nothing screams “rubbish day” like row upon row of bleak grey bin bags piled along the curb. But what if we could take those boring (and let’s face it, depressing) bin liners and create art from waste, at least until the rubbish collection truck finally makes its way to the front gates or sidewalks? Well the [...]
Accidentally legendary
A good friend of mine brought a very interesting site called 9-eyes.com to my attention recently. This site shows a collection of fantastic images that were caught by Google maps with Street View. I’ve shown you a few of my favourites here, but there are plenty more. It just goes to show some of the [...]
Spaces Magazine to help creatives live, work and play in inspired surrounds
The popular creative design magazine Frankie has now launched a new magazine project named ‘Spaces – Where creative people live, work and play’. Spaces showcases a fantastic global collection of eclectic interiors. This large format magazine explores the favourite space of photographers, graphic designers, vintage collectors and shop owners. Be inspired by the unique living, [...]
Environmental Myth Busted
So here we are thinking we’re being environmentally friendly by uploading files to websites to be read online or burning them to CDs rather than printing them. A study conducted and published in Finsbury Green’s publication: Green Paper Guide, demonstrates that less CO2 is generated by the conventional method of printing. The study used the [...]
Green Roofs
Having attended the always inspiring Pecha Kucha night at the Brisbane Powerhouse, I was intrigued by landscape architect, Sidonie Carpenter’s introduction to the concept of ‘green roofs.’ As the presentation time was limited, I was compelled to research the topic further and this is what I discovered… Green roofs are a phenomenon that has [...]