For the fifth year in a row, All Your Colours designed the sustainable exhibition environment for Amsterdam based Tuttobene. The exhibition presented socially responsible designs of 11 innovative newcomers during Milan Furniture Fair.

The exhibition was constructed from modular cardboard boxes - a consequent extension of Tuttobene’s ideology of environmental and social design responsibility - giving the exhibition a crisp but natural look.

The exhibition employed two colour schemes: the natural brown tones of the cardboard combine with neat white graphics in the exhibition area allowing the displayed products to take center stage. The public areas such as reception, bar and reclining areas were brought forward and connected with a strong apple green in contrast to the reduced colour in the exhibition area.

Each designer had a ‘peep box’; a cardboard volume hiding a little secret, a surprise or some insider information about about their project.Set cards featuring each designer complemented the exhibition; the cards could be collected individually or in complete packs at the information desk.

This centrally located Amsterdam apartment had to undergo a complete conversion, from run-down artist studio to stylish city dwelling.

Our client envisaged an environment that is light and spacious and wanted to open up the space by reducing loose furniture to a minimum.

Interior concept

We specified a versatile and unassuming selection of built in interior fittings that allowed us to combine the living, eating & working areas as a open-plan and multi-use space.

To avoid the kitchen dominating the open-plan living space we designed and custom-built wall-unit that holds the kitchen, large amounts of storage and also a desk workstation. This multi-use counter runs from the kitchen into the living room.

Lighting

To cater for the versatile usage of the space we needed to accommodate different light scenarios. We employed indirect and diffused lighting for soft background atmosphere, next to direct light sources for localised work and activity areas.

All Your Colours collectively visited the Bread & Butter fashion trade show in Berlin.
Next to meeting lots of interesting fashion retailers All Your Colours went through the streets of Berlin writing colour poetry in sand. The daily showers washed away the disposible graffiti and allowed us to bring new colours to the passer-bys each day.

We were asked by Ferro explore to design new research facilities that reflect their corporate identity: to create aninspiring environment where the marketers and respondents feel at ease.

The Living room represents the fresh thinking and identity of Ferro.

We created different areas to make the user feel at home: a comfortable lounge area to realx and chat next to flexible table settings to facilitate the freedom to work in different groups. The Living room is perfect for giving inspiring presentations and holding workshops and brainstorm sessions.

Our layout allows sharing the space for different uses and settings.

This project was designed in different phases to accommodate the client’s budget.

A complete shop concept for the airport retail chain Capi Electronics.

AllYourColours was invited by Capi to develop a complete shop concept comprising interior architecture and product design. We are also revisiting the clients CI, web presence & web shop. User experience & interactive elements have been introduced to the concept.

This electronic goods retail chain has branches throughout airports in Europe and South Africa.

For the second year running we where asked by Wolters Kluwer, a global publisher, to design their exhibition stand, partly open & inviting, partly private & intimate.

We created an outer meeting area as a quiet space for the international sales team to meet with their customers, sheltered by some bookshelves for privacy.
The central space featured interactive & animated graphics, the reception desk, the presentation area and the online customer services.

The layers of function and the subtle use the corporate colours created a 3D user-experience.

Like last year we closely collaborated with Lesley Moore who designed the graphics and animations featuring the concept of the cloud: it refers to Wolters Kluwer‘s global position, their sources diversity and the richness of information the client has to offer.

This unusual building by architect Will Alsop is used as a host to stage this digital multi-player game. It allows the player to navigate a digital avatar around the real gallery environment before them.

The mixed reality installation is part of the comprehensive interactive gallery  in West Bromwich.

We were commissioned by Blast Theory to develop the ‘user platforms’ interfacing with the digital game. We designed and built 10 input devices that allow the visitor to navigate the virtual avatar though physical body movement around the space.

The installation has completed this summer.

The ‘Skyscopes’ are a family of periscopes that allow you to take a look from the roof of London’s landmark building Canary Wharf.



One of the ‘Skyscopes’ looks out over the London skyline, the other gives you a bird’s eye view of the people walking 200m below.
 


The installation streams live footage from cameras on the roof of Canary Wharf. As you move the ‘Skyscope’ you control the orientation of the camera and therefore your view of London. This allows you to take a fresh look at England’s capital city. This was the theme of the London Festival of Architecture 2008.



TheSkyscope were created in collaboration with the design agency Superblue.

The aim of the contest is to bring together ideas and identify solutions that will provide the best and most coherent integration of structures in the local urban and commercial setting.

In cooperation with the architects Kirsten Gabriel and James Webb.

We developed a concept that seeks to stimulate innovative ideas that will convey the messages of modernity and attention to the architectural and environmental quality of this metropolis.

The quality of the building and the interior spaces is made through an inner courtyard which gives a clear sense of identity.

During the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009 in Milan Tuttobene organised their sixth group presentation of Dutch & International designers. Tuttobene commissioned AllYourColours to create an interior design concept that strongly communicated Tuttobene’s ideology of sustainability and its aesthetic image.

Interior design

The concept for this years exhibition was based on seeing the featured sustainable designs from a birds-eye view, physically giving the visitor the experience to look at design work from above. AYC designed a layout resembling a ‘catwalk’: the visitor was raised above the exhibition on walkways made from Euro Palettes. The structure allowed us to control routing of the visitor next to acting as thresh-holds between exhibition spaces. The exhibition space offered a 3 dimensional user experience. All other exhibition furniture such as the press desk, bar as well as a VIP area were constructed from the wooden elements.

At the end of the exhibition all pallets were returned leaving no waste, one of Tuttobene’s major objectives.

Graphic design

Like every year, Tuttobene produced a newspaper publication (designed by Kitty Ebbers and Anne Heanni). The newspaper played and important role for the exhibition signage: next to being a newspaper and flyer it could furthermore be used as signage. Letters were folded from pages of the Tuttobene news publication used to spell out headlines, titles of work, designers’ names and guiding information.

Like the interior design the graphics of the newspaper were based on the principle of Google-Earth. Similar to Buckminster Fuller’s idea of seeing the earth from a spaceship, the publication was a large map of the exhibition space with all objects photographed from above. This empowered the reader to take in the displayed objects (and their context and relationships) from a wider perspective. Metaphorically this supports Tuttobene’s concept of responsible design when seen in a larger context.

A second round of temporary and themed graphics have been implemented in the Herman Miller showroom.

The emphasis was on the Herman Miller’s international presence inside the store and the versatility and value of their chair collection in the windows.

The reflective surfaces allow the visitor and passer-by to become a part of the display and design.

The showroom and its current design can be visited at Herman Miller International design Center, 61 Aldwych, London WC2B 4AE

Energy Everywhere is the name of a permanent exhibition in the new interactive Energy gallery in the Science Museum London.



We developed a sensor system that invited visitors to interact physically with a projected narrative.

The visitor digs for coal and generates wind power while playfully exploring the content of the educational energy narrative.

Mirrors and lights are strategically placed to create reflection of the tubes indefinitely, creating the illusion of rows and rows of tubes drifting away into the distance to a very far away vanishing point behind the reception.
The front panel is made from a half-silver mirror:  they allow penetration of a light, but still remain the reflective mirror front. When the lights are off the panels appear like a standard mirror.

Four street cubes in central London locations sent out lottery tickets to every available bluetooth device in the area. Passers-bys could win a priority appointment with a design consultant to make up their own customised design for a pair of sneakers.



Software design
We implemented an innovative bluetooth broadcasting system along with countdown clips that scheduled a lottery every 15 minutes and broadcast a ticket by bluetooth to the mobile phones of passers-by.

As new NikeID trainers were designed in NikeTown, the graphics on the cubes were updated with generative graphics of the latest shoe designers and their creations.

Product design
AllYourColours advised on the design and was involved in the manufacture of the traveling structure.

The South Sea exhibition in the Culture Museum Hildesheim is structured in themed sections. The staged content in these eight sections takes the visitor on a dive through the treasures of the South Sea.

The overall design concept follows typical characteristics that are seen throughout the exhibits. Organic & curved lines and typical textured styles placed alongside simple geometric motifs.


These spatial design features are complimented by a continuous and tonal colour climate that creates close associations with the South Sea, water, waves and motion.

The Herman Miller corporate message was implemented through interior, display & graphic design. This included store merchandise, shop windows and showroom using colour, theme & communication design as the toolbox for graphical elements.

Interior design
To fulfill our brief we designed a new interior colour context, worked on routing, furniture layout and product colours to achieve a balanced design that visually and physically brings the large open plan showroom together.

Display design
To showcase Herman Miller’s wide range of materials and fabrics we designed a organic and 3-dimensional wall.
The display wall has sculptural properties. Its purpose is to inspire creative thinking around the available materials.

Shop windows, merchandise & graphic design
Inspired by the Herman Miller heritage, we designed a 1960s Pop-art window display & merchandise as a consistent accessory around the showroom, connecting the various store elements.


We also designed and produced large scale communication & brand visuals next to a case studies wall.

Wolters Kluwer is one of the biggest international publishers. Its books cover health, tax, accounting, corporate services, financial services, the legal and regulatory fields and transport.


Interior design
Originally there was a closed off layout of the stand. We restructured and divided the stand to accomplish a completely different feel and look.



We raised all the external walls to one height which gave the graphics full freedom to spread around the entire stand. The reception area was extended to be more welcoming.
The book display was the most important feature at the stand. We created two rows of bookshelves that displayed all the books in a front facing way. This gave a total display of 600 running meters which also wrapped around the external walls. To emphasis this dramatic book wall, we used continually changing lights under the shelves.


Graphic design
Lesley Moore designed all the graphics and animation films at the stand.
The concept plays with the logo making it inviting to all visitors whatever their nationalities or interests.

A complete shop concept for the airport retail chain Capi Electronics.


AllYourColours was invited by Capi to develop a complete shop concept comprising interior architecture and product design. We are also revisiting the clients CI, web presence & web shop. User experience & interactive elements have been introduced to the concept.

This electronic goods retail chain has branches throughout airports in Europe and South Africa.

Tuttobene is a platform for young, international designers who focus on sustainable design with a deeper meaning. The work is designed to be shown individually and also as part of a wider whole.

Tuttobene believes that design can influence change, not only visually but also in cultural or social ways.

Interior design
The theme on the exhibition of 2008 was Focus. 

Each designer was asked to pick three words which were the focus of their design theme.



21 individual designers displayed products that focused purely on their design, but also showed the interconnection between them. The goal was to use as little material as possible to enhance the sustainability of the products.


The design of the entrance hall functioned as the starting point for the exhibition. From here different coloured tapes started running through the exhibition.

Using a newspaper format, signage was created for every designer with their own individual, distinctive colour.


Graphic design
The newspaper was designed by Esmee Steur & Loes van Esch with individual colours for each designer and their products. These also complimented the connection between the designers and their work.
The newspaper also served as a flyer, poster and signage for the interior space.

In close collaboration with Palmers, we developed a shop-in-shop concept. The design included a series of new display products.



We designed a family of elegant and feminine display tables with versatile expansion to suit different shop floor plans.


Days of the Figurines is a traveling game that forms part of the IPerG (Integrated Project on Persuasive Gaming) research project by Blast Theory.



Visitors are invited to play a large board game set in a fictional town that is grubby, dark and in a state of steady decay. Players navigate their chosen avatar by SMS for up to 24 days. During that time they establish their own community and morality within a parallel world.

We were commissioned by Blast Theory to co-design and procure the production of the game board as a modular traveling exhibition piece. The game was launched at Sonar 2006, the Electronic Music and Digital Art Festival in Barcelona and has since embarked on a world tour.


Edelweiss are specialists in unique designer handbags. 

Together with Jack van Dijk we designed a store that feels luxurious, spacious and inviting to everyone who recognises that “a handbag is more than just a bag”.

Interior design
The colour inspiration for the interior of the store was given by the name ‘Edelweiss’. ‘Edel’ means refined, which represents the precious accessories in the store. ‘Weiss’ means white, which translated into high gloss white furniture. Through this simple colour concept the bags attract full attention.

Graphic design
Zildt was asked to create the brand Edelweiss, matching the harmony and exclusivity of the interior and baring a unique signature.

Product design
All the furniture in the store was designed and custom made to fit. 
The main feature is the 10 m long white high gloss sideboard with a golden edge. Another feature is the golden braced string curtain with floating shelves displaying the most expensive bags in the store. 

Max is part of a series of products and furniture made out of sailing equipment.

Born of a passion for sailing, the aim is to bring the outdoor sailing world into our interior homes.  Max is made out of sailing rope with a PVC rigid core and stainless steel endings.

Max has been presented the first time at Valencia Furniture Fair, Nude 2006 and at the 100% Design show in Tokyo.

The Wheel of Fortune was part of a Nesta exhibition stand that helped to distribute promotional literature on their Creative Pioneer Programme.



When you take a Nesta brochure out of the booklet container, the fortune telling Wheel starts spinning. This begins a visitor dialogue and creates an individual brand experience for every single visitor.



The Wheel of Fortune was part of a Nesta exhibition stand at D&AD.



Joe Meaney, marketing manager for Nesta, said: “We virtually ran out of literature to distribute! It is still one of our most successful exhibitions to date.”


A hotel bathroom is the place to savour the quietest moments. It’s a place to share or enjoy alone, to dream or to relax after a grueling working day or a hard days shopping.


The theme of the competition was wellbeing and a feeling of wellness.

Our bathroom concept offers a chance to take time out that you rarely have at home, perhaps because of time or even space. Our bathroom incorporates calming sound, wonderful scents and lots and lots of foam.


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