Pantone Tarts by Emilie de Griottes

For a special feature in French culinary magazine FRICOTE, French food designer Emilie de Griottes developed dessert tarts that recreate pantone colour swatches. Berries, carrots, lemon, candies, and other foods are arranged upon a tart base, whose bottom is iced in white and marked with the pantone colour represented. recipes for making the tarts are […]

Lolita Cafe Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Lolita Cafe Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Today we wanted to bring your attention to an interesting interior from Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana). Designed by Trije Arhitekti, Lolita Cafe was completed in 2011, and this year it was nominated for Best International Interior in the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. The flirty feminine aesthetic which is nicely balanced with a muted palette and bold accents of black […]

Honor & Folly Bed and Breakfast

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Honor & Folly Bed and Breakfast

When Meghan McEwen – the founder of beautiful design-travel blog Designtripper – decided to open up her own B&B, there was only ever really going to be one outcome. It’s exactly the sort of homely, neighbourhoody, unpretentious, design focussed little place that you’d have expected to see on the blog’s pages. “Designtripper explores the intersection […]

Bringing a new vision to Bankwest’s Happy Banking.

At the recently completed state-of-the-art Perth Flagship Store, Design Clarity introduced a streetscape concept for the next generation in Bankwest retail presentation.
The client requested a new innovative concept stemming from our original East Coast model. This step-change in the design evolution had to ensure Bankwest stays true to their vision “to be the best value, most innovative and approachable bank in Australia…”

Mmmmm….Ice Cream!!

Prepare yourself: everything you thought you knew about ice cream means nothing. Even those ridiculously good Italian gelaterie? Forget ‘em – waste of time… for Jordi Roca, the youngest of the three brothers behind El Celler de Can Roca (the world’s 2nd best restaurant), has rewritten the ice cream parlour rulebook. What looks like a […]

Dunedin Mews wins ‘Best Small Development’

Design Clarity is delighted to hear that Leathwaite Development’s, Dunedin Mews has won ‘Best Small Development’ at the London Evening Standard new homes awards. As one of their design partners on the scheme, we are extremely pleased that all the energy, time, and hard work put in by Jon and Simon in developing this innovative […]

Sydney turns vivid

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Sydney turns vivid

Anyone in or around Sydney has to get down to the Quay after dusk for a truly spectacular, eye-popping experience. The city foreshore has come alive with intense colour, movement and light as the Vivid Sydney 2012 festival kicks off. So much creative energy and talent is on show. One of our favourites is the […]

Clerkenwell Design Week

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Clerkenwell Design Week

Design Clarity has been busy at Clerkenwell Design Week over the last couple of days. We have attended exhibitions, talks, films and even workshops. Our highlights included the scrabble wall at the Turnbull Grey letterpress workshop at the Milliken showroom. We also enjoyed getting inspired by one of design’s most famous couples – Charles and […]

Color Forecast

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Color Forecast

Taking fashion marketing to a whole new level the Color Forecast project by retailer Pimkie has been developed by Pedro Cruz and runs feeds from high definition cameras in Milan, Paris and Antwerp to track the colour of fashions worn across the cities. The colour clustering software analyses the passing colours and shows in real […]