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Design Clarity was approached early 2011 by a residential client offering an exciting opportunity to refurbish his riverside apartment. Located in a grade II listed 19th century grain warehouse on…
Camberwell is the latest in the Laurent family to undergo a full transformation and the design represents the legacy behind the brand with a focus on quality and craftsmanship. The location east of the city has a longstanding, loyal and discerning customer base who are now enjoying a convivial, crisp, refreshed interior ambience. Customer profiling...
Design Clarity were invited to upgrade an existing shopping centre, creating an exceptional family-friendly lifestyle experience to appeal to young and affluent families with strong community connections. A unique dining environment was produced, offering a comfortable ambience and a point of difference with visual interest, innovative technology and screening between spaces. The selection of materials,...
Running Bare stretches the definition of fast fashion. A retail brand that is proudly Australian, born out of Bondi Beach in 1983 and still has the majority of product lines designed and made here locally in Oz. RB is fashion with attitude to be worn by individuals with attitude. Not necessarily for fitness alone, but...
How to keep an iconic 100-year-old heritage brand young? The objective with this latest V4 design is to create an in-store experience that is distinctively Bonds. Of course we are always asked to create spaces that are operationally efficient and cost effective, but the true focus is to capture the brand spirit and the essence...
We were honoured to have the opportunity to work on this brand new concept for Florrie – A completely new doll retailer and lifestyle brand for girls. The store consists of retail space, high tea café and party room with beautiful interior details such as a moving dolls ferris wheel within the shopfront and a...
Design Clarity has joined forces with the Glue team to create a new and dynamic visual identity for their stores, offering urban street fashion and lifestyle accessories galore. There’s a retro record bar ‘Vinyl Richie’, a Denham tailoring pop-up box for denim customisation and a shop-in-shop concept for Article No.1 menswear. An umbrella retail brand...
Design Clarity has joined forces with the Glue team to create a new and dynamic visual identity for their stores. Urban street fashion and lifestyle accessories galore. This corner street frontage site demanded attention from 3 frontages. The interior shouts out ‘urban industrial’ with raw concrete floors, clockwork walls and exposed services, overlaid with personality,...
This concept celebrates the authenticity of raw materials. Raw expanded metal mesh panels were applied to the concrete shop front to create a point of difference while keeping costs down. The interior showcases painted exposed ceiling services and perforated timber suspended ceiling rafts, illuminated folded aluminium shoe displays, concrete rendered point of sale with illuminated...
Fast, uncomplicated, fresh and cost effective. A new image for an established fresh fruit retailer at Pacific Fair on the Gold Coast. Fresh produce takes centre stage in the reinvention of this space. The black ceiling, walls & plinths create a sophisticated backdrop & add focus to the product. Custom brick bond cladding & timber...
A two level dynamic retail space in a prime Sydney CBD location. Optus is shifting focus, targeting digital natives and heightening brand appeal by being entertaining, responsive, engaging and agile. Our retail design strategy offers more entertainment, more content, less hardware. Design Clarity developed a set of insights to drive the design based on four...
The concept behind Design Clarity’s design for the upgraded Oxford Village Shopping centre focuses on the success of laneway precincts around Australia. This small inner-urban centre was built in 1969 and underwent a part renovation in 2005. Design Clarity was engaged as Principle Design Architect on the project to develop the previously untouched common areas,...
Central Kitchen is the heart of Sydney’s new Retail destination – Central at Central Park. 4000sqm and offering seating for 700, the Level 2 dining zone of the Frasers Property and Sekisui House development on Broadway, Sydney was designed to embrace the global village nature of the Living Mall. Central Kitchen reinvents the food court...
Design Clarity was approached early 2011 by a residential client offering an exciting opportunity to refurbish his riverside apartment. Located in a grade II listed 19th century grain warehouse on…
Our design work on the mall refurbishment work at Toombul commenced with mood board and conceptual schematics of the new travelator installed from the upper level carpark into the general fashion and specialty ramped mall outside Kmart. Concepts for treatment of the mall common areas, ceilings, bulkheads, walls, doors, bulkheads, flooring, pause points with charging...
Design Clarity worked with Mirvac on the early stages of the Toombul Shopping Centre redevelopment direction. In under 3 weeks we presented a Fresh Food precinct schematic concept upgrade to allow leasing to key tenants to progress. The upgrade identified quick wins that provided maximum uplift for the Fresh Food mall anchored by Coles. The...
As part of the refurbishment plan for Toombul, entry points were reassessed and extra corridor and footprint was dedicated to the shopper amenities, requiring a full redesign and total upgrade, with the addition of a new concept parents room. A selection of concept directions were proposed, and the ‘International Traveller’ targeted as a stakeholder favourite,...
Design Clarity worked on the early concept designs for Heinemann – the company subsequently winning the rights to develop Sydney’s largest duty free store in departures at Sydney Airport’s T1 International terminal. Our schematic concept work evolved around the essence of Sydney and the connection of Sydney’s unique identity with the several retail category destination...
Another DC collaboration with global F&B giant Nando’s. Where legendary storytelling is key and passionate detailing makes all the difference to the character of the dining environment. There’s external banquettes in vivid orange marine grade leather, and internal upholstery with buttoned backs and red baseball stitching to the luxe leather seat cushions. Tactility is king....
UAE exchange is a global provider of money transfers and foreign exchange. Design Clarity worked with UAE to develop their latest mall service booth concept. An interesting project where aesthetics, cultural influences, functionality and security all played their part in the design process. We’ve never before witnessed happier clients!
Corbett & Claude opens their first site in Sydney. The space is light-filled and airy with loads of texture and character to give Sydneysiders a warm welcome to the Queensland originated brand. There’s a laid back casual air with an element of urban sophistication expressed through the detailing. A mosaic patterned frontage invites guests under...