Swiss architecture, design and technology group Camezind Evolution recently created the interior design and fit out for Google’s EMEA Engineering Hub in Zurich. Measuring twelve-thousand square meters, the office is the second largest Google engineering hub in the world, following the Headquarters in Mountain View, California. Consulting with a psychologist, the design worked to reflect [...]

Urging the public question their environment on a daily basis, the CORNERS project is a series of billboards installed from the airport along the ‘gateway’ leading into Sydney city. A collaboration between five local architects, the project was derived from a similar public art exhibit by Barcelona-based architect Manuel de Sola-Morales, and formed as part [...]

Murchison-Hume is a luxurious range of enviro and kid-friendly luxury cleaning products. The brainchild of Sydney-based couple Peter and Max Kater, the product line was envisioned when former Fashion Editor-turned stay at home mother Max noticed the “odious and uninspiring” array of cleaning products on the market. The “design-conscious” and business-savvy Housewife took matters into [...]

Recently, PSFK wrote about Victorian boutique Lulamae‘s pop-up store destined for the Melbourne Central shopping centre. Designed by Breathe Architects, the sustainable pop-up store is finally open for business. Constructed from post consumer waste recycled cardboard, the store came flat-packed and took a day to assemble. [via The Design Files] READ POST ON PSFK HERE.

Designer and developer of web interfaces Dustin Curtis wrote an amazing article on How to Hack Your Brain through sleep. Suggesting multiple naps or polyphasic sleep versus one extended sleep period (Monophasic Sleep) Curtis believes you can shave up to six hours off your sleep time. During the night a typical person only spends one [...]

Australian student designer Robert Dumaresq recently took Gold at the Australian International Design Awards, Dyson Student Category for his ‘Switch Commuter Bike‘. The bike which folds up to the size of a wheel in “one smooth motion,” was designed in response to the Victorian government’s move to ban bikes on public transport. Claiming to be [...]

Breathe Architecture has been working with Lulamae, a Melbourne based fashion boutique, to design a sustainable Pop-Up shop in the lower ground level of Melbourne Central over summer. The entire fit out is made from 100% post consumer waste recycled cardboard. The shop will literally Pop-Up on December 1. With all of the pre-cut panels [...]

Ady Gil is the latest weapon against illegal whaling. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s speedy ocean defence vessel recently took out the world record for global circumnavigation. Reaching speeds of 50 knots, the Andy Gil’s main function will be to intercept and block harpoons from illegal whalers within Antarctic regions, south of Australia. Launching in [...]