Yellowtrace

Essential resource for progressive designers who refuse to settle for mediocrity. Founded & edited by @dana.tomic.hughes. Join our community👇🏼

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"Design can change the way you see the world". Yellowtrace founder @.hughes at a year ago. Watch the full talk on YouTube via the link in bio 💫

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A bathroom that stops you cold. 🫶🏼⁠
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ST House is ⁠'s refined take on mid-century Californian modernism in Sopot, Poland.⁠
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There's a version of a restaurant interior that asks you to arrive, eat, and leave. is not that. 🌙 ⁠
's latest hospitality project occupies a Brisbane laneway in Newstead, channelling the intimacy and geometric confidence of mid-century Italian desi...

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Diamonds served at the bar. 🍷✨ The brief for Love Isabelle's new Manly concept store was to imagine a neighbourhood bar—except instead of wine, you're served fine jewels. delivered exactly that: a central bar, curated vintage lighting (hello, Mariyo...

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@'s inaugural LA office breaks every conventional workspace rule—and we're here for it. has crafted an environment featuring work from ten-plus local artists, including , , @, , , , and , that feels more like a home than an office. ⁠
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Stone floors that catch the light. A kitchen that means business. 🖤 ⁠
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ST House in Sopot, Poland by is a mid-century modernist interior done with real conviction—layered with Taj Mahal quartzite, green onyx, ceramic mosaic, walnut panelling, and po...

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When the brief is a 48 m² hotel gift shop, but you design it like the lake is watching. 's Lopota Gift Shop in Georgia's Kakheti region takes its entire concept from the body of water it faces—green mirrored glass, stone gravel walls, fishing-float w...

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When attachment becomes paralysis, you need a designer who understands both. 🏡 's Madrid renovation for an art collector started with a challenge: the owner loved the house so deeply, any change felt like betrayal. The solution was to unify the archi...

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At Tulum's urban edge, has completed a mixed-use development with architecture that's strong and purposeful. The project packs 59 residential and hotel units into an eye-shaped plan👌🌴⁠
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📸 Albers Studio...

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When I created Sightline, I hoped it would resonate. I didn't expect it to reverberate.

Five weeks on and the messages still haven't stopped. The feedback has been unlike anything I've experienced. Mega real. Raw. Specific.

These are some of the wo...

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What will the archaeologists of the future make of the objects we surround ourselves with today? That was the premise behind Domus Nova at Madrid Design Festival 2026, curated by MANERA Magazine and SANTA Living, where 44 pieces by 33 designers occup...

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☕ Meet QDC (Quick Daily Coffee)—a tiny Gangnam café by Seoul studio that borrows the language of the office and makes it playful. Paper clip-shaped handles. Meeting room-style storage that glows as if someone's inside. A floating clock that doubles ...

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has turned a former Brutalist library in Singapore into 's new headquarters. The brief was tricky—how do you make massive concrete vaults work for a hospitality company? The answer: smart moves throughout. ⁠
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The boardroom doubles as a wine tasting ...

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We've been in rooms full of designers before.⁠
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This was different. This was a room full of designers who'd stopped pretending everything was fine.⁠
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Something shifted in Sydney. The same thing shifted in Melbourne. And the conversations that start...

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There's something wonderful about a home that refuses to be trapped by its own history. 🌿 In Madrid's Puerta de Hierro, has transformed a nostalgic but dark dwelling into a luminous gallery-like space. Green painted floors echo the lush garden outsi...

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📐 have given this beauty studio in Milan the full treatment—literally and figuratively. Less clinic, more like a living room you'd never want to leave 🤎⁠
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🪵 "These materials do not decorate; they remember." That's the ethos behind 's design at Lopota Lake Resort in Georgia, spaces shaped by the memory of a rose plantation once rooted on this land. Rosewood, copper, locally sourced marble and sustainabl...

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"Alright, let's just see what comes out." ⁠
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This is literally how Sightline started. Not with a strategy deck, but a fire in @.hughes' belly a few months ago, and the hope that what she had to say would matter to someone.⁠
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Turns out it mattered t...

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🔊 teamed up with Devon Turnbull for Survey 03: Form Follows Feelings at the Karimoku Research Centre in Tokyo's Nishiazabu.⁠
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Three floors of immersive listening rooms. Handcrafted wooden horn speakers made with 3D-machining and oak veneer. A tea ...

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Four weeks since Sightline. Four weeks of messages, voice notes, DMs, emails, and conversations that stopped me in my tracks.

I created Sightline because I was tired of watching the design industry flatten itself into algorithmic sameness. I wanted ...