Developing façade colour options is rarely straightforward and varies considerably depending on the architectural style of the building and client aims and objectives. With this project, the clients wanted to update and refresh the townhouse complex. Constructed in the late…
This project involved developing facade colour options for a 28-storey apartment building in Sydney’s CDB. The aim was to maintain the building’s reputation as a prestige contemporary apartment building within its environment and the broader urban landscape. Located at 127…
Aside from improving aesthetics, building façade colour schemes can impact the perceived size of a building as well as how the building complements (or contrasts with) it’s urban environment. The image featured in this post is a building in Lane…
I work with Nadine Donazzan of DNA Design to provide evidence-based facade colour strategies, colour scheme options and reports for private residences, strata apartment buildings and commercial buildings. External façade colour schedules for small to large strata buildings. Internal fitout…
Evidence-based colour strategies can help achieve objectives beyond aesthetics in interior design for commercial, corporate and residential projects. Some of the outcomes colour can help to achieve in interior design include: Encourage greater engagement and interaction, especially in public spaces…
UPDATE: This colour supergraphics project won a Landscape Maestro award (see website) and a Master Painters Association Community award (2017). Kesterton Park picnic huts, North Sydney. The project was timed to coincide with Vivid Sydney 2017 and featured high chroma colour.…
Colour scheme for a Dementia Unit – This project involved providing evidence-based colour insight to the team responsible for the design of the Fraser McDonald Geriatric Psychiatric Unit. This dementia unit is located at Auckland City Hospital, Auckland District Health…
Colour contrast strategies – Healthcare design I had the opportunity to meet with members of the New Zealand Health Design Council and deliver a seminar on effective colour contrast strategies in healthcare design aimed at improving environmental visual literacy. The…
My consultancy work often involves evidence-based interior colour scheme strategies for private and corporate clients. Responses to colour are subjective and idiographic, so I always start with the client’s preferences in art and furniture, and then devise colour scheme options…
Launched in March 2017, @colour.design.palettes on Instagram explores the ways in which colour strategies are applied in design and the colour palettes of prominent design styles and designers. Check out @colour.design.palettes on Instagram. Colour, tonal value and saturation are dimensions…
