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Our studio specializes in design for behaviour.

We have done so for almost 30 years and in this time we have learned a tremendous amount about how people behave naturally and instinctively within these social environments. We have learned the hard way that in order to design successful venues, we needed to place predictive human behaviour at the heart of what we do. We capture succinctly how most people behave most of the time in order to design spaces for the most joy and ultimately the most success. This assists us in capturing the spirit of place. 

Our Design Process

Our process starts with understanding you, your business and your customers. That being said, you are not our customer. Your customers are. We design for them. Their needs and their behavior. Its all about understanding how they behave naturally within specific environments and differs vastly across the various categories of Restaurants & Bars, Hotel & Leisure and Workplace.

 

Our focus is to understand how we can best frame those predictive behaviors within these categories and design environments that will result in much more delightful customer experiences - happy customer, happy client.

 

Services

Truly innovative, delightful and considered solutions come from flaring before focus. That is considering inputs and points of view you would not normally think of. Core to this philosophy is an ability enhance human behaviour through architecture, interiors, styling, visualisation, and branding within an ethos of an incomparable client journey. This is central to our success.

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Brief Development

We assist in formulating a design brief by taking all touch points into consideration, understanding that we are designing for your customers. We take into account our human behavioural principals and consider things that limit the brief but can potentially fuel design ambitions.

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Design Concept

In alignment with the brief and business drivers, a design direction is articulated for implementation combining best practice solutions from both in and outside category. This is achieved through various iterations of visually curated pieces that best tells a story of your brand within the physical space.

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Considered Implementation

Applying the design concept into the built environment with technical details and physical restraints. We take into consideration the emotional and sensorial aspect of an interior space that will best articulate the design. This is achieved through technical documentation, bespoke shopfitting drawings and unique FF&E schedules. 

Let's get to know you, your business, and your customers.

Awards

Awards mean you’ve done well and good work.

That’s what they mean when you look at them: a group of considered people, largely professional peers in our field think we did great work. Reward however comes in witnessing those spaces come to life with the people they were created for.

2021 Restaurant & Bar Finalist Restaurant

Design Finalist Meat & Wine Adelaide

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2020 Good Design Awards Australia 

Winner, 6HEAD - The Rocks Sydney 

 

2019 Australia By Design Top 5
Restaurant Design, hospitality designs
interiors in Australia


2018 Middle East & North Africa Shopping
Center Awards Winner
& Retailer Awards, Dubai, Burger Boutique.

 

2018 Restaurant & Bar Finalist 

 Design Finalist Meat & Wine Barangaroo

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2018 RDDA Retail Category Winner
Relay Jeans
Braamfontein, Johannesburg South Africa
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2018 RDDA Restaurant Category Winner
Nando’s Horizon View, South Africa.

 

2017 RDDA Category Winner
Restaurant Design Old Town Italy Menlyn Maine
 

Our Happy Clients

"Add a testimonial that a happy customer or client has said about working with you."

Amanda Johns, COO, HORIZON

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