Denson Drive
// Denson drive //
DENSON DRIVE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, IT IS OUR HOME + STUDIO WHERE WE ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH A CITY LOT 50X150 AND THE POTENTIAL OF LIVING/ WORKING AND INCOME PRODUCING SPACES. The house was a renovation of an existing single story bungalow.
Urban Code
Have you ever walked down the street and noticed spray painted “code” on the ground? As city dwellers, this can mean a lot of things or sometimes nothing. I am fascinated by these little notes that I am not privy to the meaning of. This print was inspired by that idea… created by imagery not spray paint.
Highland Hideaway AirBnb
Our Studio + AirBnb is a space we designed to be functional and affordable. Our final design took a bit of back and forth until we talked to our contractor who told us that adding the loft would not add that much cost to the project. The house sits on one side of our lot with private street access and we have since built a fence separating the yards.
We used IKEA cabinets, schoolhouse electric lighting, and local tile from Clay Imports and our own textiles and art for the space. To save money we did wall to wall carpet tiles from FLOR. I love using them because they are really easy to cut and make your own design.
Street View Collection
Street View: An Urban Hellscape: A visual discovery and celebration of urban grit told through textiles.
Urban Design Collection
Urban— Design Collection -Awarded the ICFF Editors Award for Materials and Textiles 2021
The Urban– Design collection is a series of illustrated moments of a rapidly urbanizing city. The prints are inspired by urban design, the built environment and its outcome on our cities. It grew out of a series of walks, conversations with neighbors and studio projects. read more here
Building the collection
Overlapping prints define our process
Over the course of the pandemic I began developing a collection that grew out of our daily walks in our city. The shut down brought us into our city in a new way. Matt and I began walking through different neighborhoods and along the way I was collecting moments that would tell this story. Each print that was developed during this time built off of each other creating a color palette as well as scale of prints and line work. All of the prints that began to develop came from the overlapping of the printed material, mimicking that of an urban environment and the detritus that I was documenting.
overgrown
The collection is printed on 100% cotton canvas as a ubiquitous material, easily accessible and durable. The material plays with the color and application of ink on the fabric.
Reilly Gardens
The Reilly Gardens // May 2021
Urbs + City of Austin Parks & Austin Independent School District
Design Project Team: Urbs, Design Director, Kate Catterall Design Collaborator, Emma Overholt, Graphics, Michael Herndon, Landscape Architecture Design, Brandon Buerk, furniture system.
The Reilly project started with Kerriann Duffy, Alyson Beaton and Kate Catterall conceiving of an idea to create a wonderful garden on the shared use site of Reilly School Park. The concept behind the gardens is one of social, emotional learning, where the Highland community and kids can come together to collectively nurture these restorative gardens. The gardens are designed as a respite from modern life and a wildlife refuge. The project was funded in large part by a $130,000 St. David’s Foundation, Parks with a purpose grant. The rest of the project was supported by our studio through design time, UT Austin, students and faculty member, Kate Catterall. The park was made possible by donations from Austin Parks Foundation of mulch and dirt. Special thanks to the PARD, AISD, and EdFund for being a partner for the management of the funds.
Park Before //
The Park was a very typical Texas school yard surrounded by chain link fencing and a single monoculture of bermuda grass. The parks at many Austin schools are maintained in the least expensive way possible. The garden proposal was outside of what our school yards would typically allow.
Rendering of proposed gardens by Landscape student Michael Herndon
Reilly Garden plan as a graphic by Emma Overholt
Break The Grid Print
Break the Grid
Breaking the grid is a study of the urban design of our city. It is a city that was developed as a series of suburbs that all took from from the developer who created them. As you meander through our city, like many others, the grids break, creating tension in the system of movement through and around town. This intentional and unintentional shifting can create a feeling of chaos to some but to others a sense of adventure and unexpected moments. Each neighborhood has a unique character and meandering of roads that come from the intended 20th century grid design.
Green + Red Grids Coming together
Everywhere Linen
