90's Party

One of our Interior Designers threw a 90's theme party for her birthday last weekend. The Graphics department helped out with the invitation while the rest of us took it as an excuse to blast Ace of Base, The Backstreet Boys, Aqua and TLC.

Fusing Environments

The Selgas Cano Office in Madrid fuses indoor and outdoor environments in this inspiring space. The design was created by and for the architects themselves.

Seamless Design for a Medical Clinic

Created by mabarchitects, this space exemplifies a crisp, clean environment that sets the standard for the future of medical clinics. We love the circular theme throughout.

Australia’s Greenest Building

Melbourne’s Pixel Building is the country’s first carbon neutral office building. Grocon’s Pixel Building has been awarded a perfect score of 100 by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) in this brilliant combination of Graphics, Architecture and Sustainability.

The Retail Doctor

This Tuesday, August 31st at The Team Room QVB, e2's Managing Director, Robbie Robertson, will discuss the importance of the in store experience and how it motivates customers to connect with your retail offer.

The Retail Doctor Group is a specialist retail company that builds 'business fitness' to increase sales, productivity, profitability and wealth. Expanding on the creative process for recent projects, such as the OPSM Eye Hub in Melbourne, Robbie will demonstrate how strategy-based design can deliver real returns on your business objectives.

Join us at The Retail Doctor event, "Customer Connectivity 2010 and Beyond", to learn how businesses can connect with the modern consumer and keep them loyal to brand now and in the future.

Leaders in Experience

When it comes to design, Tokyo is an inspiration and indication of what the future will hold for consumer experience. From individual interiors like the Bapexclusive store in Aoyama to placemaking exteriors like Roppongi Hills, the creativity and calculated innovation that governs this cityscape are unparalleled.

Living hoarding just behind Buckingham Palace... the possibilities are endless!

E2 and Place Associates Reinvent Punt Road

Held as part of the annual State of Design festival, the Reinvention of Punt Road workshop brought together prominent players who define the urban design direction of Melbourne.

In the four-hour session, six separate groups tackled specific sections of the notorious eye-saw. The resulting design directions were as varied as the experience of the participants. Naturally, some groups proposed a cut-and-cover approach to concealment. While others confidently re-diverted traffic creating human-scale develop. All of the six groups created thought-provoking suggestions to improve the visual aesthetic and design function of this much maligned stretch of road. With government and development stakeholders present it is hoped that the workshop will led to a deliberate and planned approached to reinvigorate Punt Road.

We might even see a Punt Paradise in the near future – watch this space!

Tis not the season

For those of you that attended our christmas in July party last Thursday (8th July) thanks for making it such a great evening. There were a few sore heads the next day but everybody seemed to enjoy themselves (some a little too much!) and it was all worth while.

It was a huge success, and due to the combined efforts of the entire team, the studio looked great decked out with our typographic christmas light installation and even a snow machine, the neighbours looked slightly confused especially when santa arrived!

For those of you that couldn't make it this selection of images gives a small snap shot of the evening.

Australian Creative Article: Emotional intelligence

There are some people you meet in life who may amuse, entertain, even keep you on your toes, but there are few that truly delight, both intellectually and creatively.

Robbie Robertson, managing director of experiential design consultancy E2, is one of them. We all know them. They have that extra something that makes us sit up and take notice, manage to keep our (otherwise waning) attention and make us miss them when they are gone.

Fortunately, you don’t just have to take my word for it. The long list of brands that have come to E2 in the last two years of the company’s short existence is testimony to its ability to not just offer, but to deliver something rather different.

E2 has completed over 178 projects in the last two years and is currently working on another 40, for brands both here and abroad, including Qantas, Commonwealth Bank, St George, Sony, Kodak, Westfield, Herman Miller, Virgin Mobile and News Ltd.

It is not hard to see how clients are engaged by E2. Reeling clients in with a fancy sales pitch is the easy part: retaining them and nurturing them so that they become a part of the fabric of the place itself and wouldn’t even consider going anywhere else is another question. This is where E2 excels.

Read further... http://www.australiancreative.com.au/yaf-news/emotional-intelligence