Murals & Environmental
Walls are just surfaces until someone decides they should say something.
Painted with the problem
The ink came from the air. Graviky Labs had developed a technology that captures carbon emissions from vehicles and chimneys and recycles them into pigment - AIR-INK. The brief was to paint a mural at a European cities air quality conference using exactly that. There's something satisfying about a material that makes the problem visible while you're solving it.
The first thing 150 people see every morning
Commissioned by CACHE Atelier for the Financial Times' first office in Bulgaria - a three-floor data hub for 150 people, situated inside the British Embassy compound. The mural lives at the main entrance, which meant it had to work as a first impression for everyone who walks in. Zero to finished in two days, because embassy permits and office construction schedules don't negotiate. Some constraints make the work better.
& Three walls. Three completely different questions.
Three walls, three completely different briefs. A hotel lobby that needed to belong to the people passing through it every day. A coworking office where the brief was essentially to draw the team's personality without it looking like a team-building exercise. And a living room for a couple who loved Leipzig and Counter-Strike - handed over with a 4×2.2m wall, a corridor, and a very specific list of favourite places to die in the game. The work is different every time. The problem is always the same: make the space feel like it was always meant to look this way.