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Are you throwing words together for your design proposal, at the deadline, even if you want to win? Are you missing out on projects you thought you’d nail? I rescue project narratives even if the deadline is tight. (My first career was as an international journalist meeting tight daily deadlines.) Or I create text, collaborating to relay your vision, and intention. Can you count on smooth, error-free presentations for your clients and the judges? Are words afterthoughts on your storyboards? I can work with you from RFPs through to finished storyboards and books for submission.

What I can help with. But first, what I can’t help with. I can’t help with the financials of your project. I can check the small print to make sure you haven’t left blanks or said something silly. I do spot and kill jargon. There is a difference between semantics and jargon. I can’t help it if the client chose their brother-in-law’s mate’s design over yours. Not even if their proposal was a xeroxed pile of steaming cut and paste shambles. It happens. We reset the schmuck client radar and go on to more great work. We take the best of those concepts on to later and better projects.
I research your client and the project criteria. I listen to everything you say about the concept, about your vision. I go away and scribble some ideas. I send you a draft, maybe two. You wonder for a moment if I’ve understood a thing. Then you tell me what you want. It’s the process.

Have you told this story as only you can as best as you can? Most of all, it’s security that your proposal is the complete package. Text should enhance your visual. I bring the focus to your design concept. Would you like the client or competition judge to scratch their head as they try to understand the text? Or you would you prefer them to be saying, ‘Ahah!’ as they spot yet another clever and thoughtful aspect of your design

Proposals and RFPs: Are your designs fabulous but you can’t spell or write well? Is pulling together text, the painful afterthought when you have an urgent proposal deadline?

Forward planning of the text would be nice but this is the real world!

In the final days and hours, adrenalin soars and concept and vision can change quickly and move to a higher level.

Design clients count on my help on deadline when it’s most needed. Many proposals I’ve written have won or been highly placed.

Guarantee your proposal text is free of distracting typos. Display your narrative and demonstrate your design vision with pride and imagination at every stage of the proposal process.

Drawing on my experience of meeting deadlines and writing as an international journalist, I bring out the best of your ideas in those crucial last days (or hours) before submitting your proposal.

If you are preparing a stunning proposal for a book or storyboard, the words must equal the vision. Better yet, the text should enhance the vision and the story will in reality when the project is built.

 

White papers: Transform your research and ideas into profile-raising publications your clients and potential clients will value, keep and read and re-read. As a former writer and editor of special reports at the Financial Times and the Australian Financial Review, I gather and write accurate and engaging reports and features.

Preparing and publishing a white paper has elevated conversations with clients and among the team at Carr Design in Australia,

Dan Cox, Director of Commercial Interiors, interviewed in DQ magazine.

Web content: Clear and guiding web content for your clients with calls to action, and engaging project narratives, services pages, team pages, and stories to inform and assist your clients. Bring together your vision and information meaningfully to assist potential clients and attract the interest in your professional circles and attract media attention.

Marian managed our web project efficiently, conducting interviews with our design chiefs in the US, Asia and Europe.

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This globe shining in the morning sun seemed like This globe shining in the morning sun seemed like a metaphor of how the world has been viewed from windows this past year.
 
Image: Globe in an Argyle Street-facing window of Partners Hill Design Group, Hobart on a sunny late April morning. 

#architecture #hobart #tasmania #globe #macquariestreehobart #design #partnershillarchitects #partnershill
Natural flooring pattern #floor #authenticdesign # Natural flooring pattern
#floor #authenticdesign #shadow
Landed! Have been enjoy the spectacle of this hou Landed! 
Have been enjoy the spectacle of this house under construction. The barriers are down and tonight it was lit up for a photoshoot.
Looking forward to my story about Moshe Safdie app Looking forward to my story about Moshe Safdie appearing in a few weeks. Will post links. What can designers learn from a starchitect to help their businesses? Here he was talking about humanising the megascale and repossessing the public realm, at Edge, this year’s annual conference of the Australian Institute of Architects. It was the first time since 1959 the AIA held its conference on the Gold Coast. 
Safdie designs outside of the box. This was my second interview with him. My first was at the opening of Marina Bay Sands in Singapore (swipe). He has a new building Jewel opening at Singapore’s Changi Airport in 2019. 
He designed a master plan for Robins on the Gold Coast in the late 1970s that was never realised. It included a canal on the same scale as the Grand Canal in Venice and the plan would have been a precursor to Marina Bay Sands. Safdie described the mall and home developments that were built  at Robina as heartbreaking’. Another in the catalogue of the greatest unbuilt projects. I have worked on a few, writing copy for bids for architects and the design comes alive in your imagination and resides there forever in a kind of parallel universe. 
Meanwhile people use the space never knowing how it might have been.

#designstuff #designbusiness #architecture #designer #architecture #marinabaysands #jewelsingapore #jewelchangiairport  #moshesafdie #edgegc2018 #australianinstituteofarchitects #archwriter #unbuiltarchitecture
The Gold Coast is destination for the National Arc The Gold Coast is destination for the National Architecture Conference, titled Edge next week. 
Looking forward to talks and writing about it.

If you are a publisher or a design firm who’d like a report from the event on a specific angle or to find out what you are missing let me know.
Keynote speaker is Moshe Safdie who I interviewed (along with many others) at opening of the amazing Marina Bay Sands in 2010.

##Design #Architecture #AIAEdge #ArchitectureConference #MosheSafde #marinabaysands #GoldCoastConventionCentre
#Architecturalreview #businessofarchitecture #designtrends #archwriter
#architecturalfirms #journalist #content #copywriting
The pod on the right said to the pod on left.... I The pod on the right said to the pod on left.... I have watched this building being made after wondering what would be put on the site. Couldn’t have guessed. It’s a house with the living area in the pod on the right and the sleeping quarters on the left. 
Would love to write about it for a mag or the designer. 
#podhouse #pointdanger #tweedterrace #sustainabledesign #gcbconstructions #raunikdesigngroup #raunikdesigh #architecture #architectureaustralia
New block replaces brick veneer flats that had bee New block replaces brick veneer flats that had been part of Rainbow Bay forever. 
Quite chunky as new blocks go. The balconies are like indoor/outdoor rooms. Appealing retreat from the sun and breeze.  I would want to be from Level 4 up up so I don’t see the road but see beach life. The rear view looks across buildings towards boat harbour and river.
Will add more details in comments as I discover them.
What do you think?
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#archwriter #architecture #beachliving #beachapartments #rainbowbay #goldcoast
#jackevansboatharbour #tweedriver #greenmounthill #snapperrocks #apartmentliving #balconyliving #oceanview
Brisbane skyline #brisbane #brisbanecity #brisban Brisbane skyline

#brisbane #brisbanecity #brisbaneriver #meriton #brisbanelibrary
Revisiting my snaps from Venice Biennale 2016 in Revisiting my snaps from Venice Biennale 2016  in its last week. Loved these screens on easels. 
#venezia #labiennale #labiennaledivenezia #venicebiennale #giardini
The wonderful pre-school that was part of China's The wonderful pre-school that was part of China's display at Venice Biennale 2016. It has almost no furniture. The inset panels in the walls and floors provide nooks for work, play and rest. 
#venezia #chinapavilion 
#preschool 
#labiennaledivenezia #architecture #chinesearchitecture
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