Design

Express your love of Brisbane and her iconic architecture through colouring. Relax your mind as you fill in the spaces with your own colour selection and enjoy spotting familiar buildings in the river city. Pencils are best to use as there will be more scope for colour mixing, shading and less likely the colours will bleed through the pages. Please feel to share your work on social media with the tag #debrahoodart

Imagine you woke up one morning to find everything created by engineers had disappeared. What would you see?

No cars, no houses; no phones, bridges or roads. No tunnels under tidal rivers, no soaring skyscrapers. The impact that engineering has had on the human experience is undeniable, but it is also often invisible.

In BUILT, structural engineer Roma Agrawal takes a unique look at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach hundreds of metres into the sky. She unearths how engineers have tunnelled through kilometres of solid mountains; how they've bridged across the widest and deepest of rivers, and tamed Nature's precious - and elusive - water resources. She tells vivid tales of the visionaries who created the groundbreaking materials in the Pantheon's record-holding concrete dome and the frame of the record-breaking Eiffel Tower. Through the lens of an engineer, Roma examines tragedies like the collapse of the Quebec Bridge, highlighting the precarious task of ensuring people's safety they hold at every step.

With colourful stories of her life-long fascination with buildings - and her own hand-drawn illustrations - Roma reveals the extraordinary secret lives of structures.

Memoirs of a Moment

In this issue, we take time to reflect upon memories of a journey. We share a weekend with Axel Vervoordt to discuss travel and collecting. We spend a day at Casa das Canoas by Oscar Niemeyer just before his great-grandson and former partner take up its renovation. We take residence at Casa Estudio Max Cetto with his grandson in Mexico City, before ending our inspiring Mexico trip at the home of sculptor and designer Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández.

Featuring 100 of Australia’s top Surface design talent,
Pattern Pulse is a must have coffee table book for anyone who loves colour and design.

Dive into the history, processes, and inspirations of the wonderfully talented artists behind the imagery that adorns the physical world around us.

Including designers from textiles, fashion, homewares, bedding, illustration and stationery: there is something for everyone amongst these glorious full colour pages.

Contemporary Houses in the Mountains