NONDESIGNS
A CREATIVE AGENCY
We translate brand messages into three-dimensional spaces for exhibits, restaurants, hotels, offices, retail environments and community spaces. We also have created a collection of customizable products that enable architects and designers to build environments.
CONTACT
NONDESIGNS, LLC
Principals Miao Miao and Scott Franklin
EMAIL US
139 S. Los Robles Ave. #304, Pasadena, CA 91101
NONDESIGNS
A CREATIVE AGENCY
We translate brand messages into three-dimensional spaces for exhibits, restaurants, hotels, offices, retail environments and community spaces. We build environments and everything within them from furniture to lighting, floor to ceiling, inside and out. We also have created a collection of products that enable architects and designers to build environments.
Our services include: Interior Architecture, Exhibit Design, Retail and Restaurant Design, Urban Design, Environmental Graphics, Interpretive and Wayfinding Signage, Brand Design, Experiential Marketing, Design Installations, Product Design, Product Displays, Project Management, Custom Fabrication, Construction Management
PRINCIPALS
Miao Miao was born in Shenyang, China and attended California State University, Northridge where she earned her B.S. in Interior design. Prior to co-founding NONdesigns, she worked in retail design and residential interior design.
Scott Franklin graduated with Distinction from ArtCenter College of Design with a B.S. in Environmental Design. His background includes exhibition, furniture, product, branding and interactive design, as well as fabrication.
Miao and Scott are both adjunct associate professors in the graduate and undergraduate Spatial Experience Design departments of ArtCenter College of Design.
CONTACT
NONDESIGNS, LLC
139 S. Los Robles Avenue #304, Pasadena, California 91101
info@nondesigns.com
AMAZON RETAIL Retail Design, Modular Display System, Sustainability ConsultingTriple life of packaging, display and garden, all in one. Bulk on pallet gives a sense of value. Added value with garden and giving to the community. Fashionably utilitarian, biodegradable, humanizing Amazon by showcasing the behind-the-scenes personality. End of use, not end of life. Upcycle. |
PBJ.LA Restaurant Design, Brand Development, Graphic Identity, Packaging Design NONDESIGNS partnered with PBJ.LA, a new brand turning the classic into innovative, organic vegan sandwiches and almond milks. The first location at Grand Central Market in downtown LA is a bright and colorful statement, highly branded down to the paper pouches that cradle each sandwich. Photos by Jakob Layman |
BUBBLES INSTALLATION Interactive Design, Engineering, Fabrication, InstallationOur team's challenge was to create a site-specific architectural scale installation that would engage the public and create a fun, social atmosphere for the community at M&A. Bubbles was not only a spectacle that stopped traffic, but excited visitors by allowing them to influence the physical space around them. The installation consists of large interactive bubbles that inflate and deflate in reaction to the changing occupancy of their surrounding space. The space starts out packed with bubbles and transforms to just a canopy as the space fills with visitors. In collaboration with Foxlin (Michael Fox and Juintow Lin) and Brand Name Label (Gabriel Renz). American Institute of Architects Honor Award. |
DORLAND RENOVATION Interior Architecture, Construction Management, Historic RenovationDorland Residence by Lloyd Wright, Altadena, CA, 2019 With a loving respect to its architecture, a 1949 Lloyd Wright built with “typical elements of the house of tomorrow” is adapted for today. The existing kitchen and bathroom (not original to the house) are renovated and a second bathroom is added within the footprint. The new kitchen aims to feel like a part of the architecture that has always been there. Its form follows the dramatic geometry of the house and its openness connects it to the surrounding landscape. With the removal of a wood and ribbed glass screen, what was once an isolated service quarter becomes the active, multi-functional center of the house. A mudroom off the kitchen is converted into a full second bathroom, extending the functionality of the 1,462 square foot house. The existing bath is replaced with a new layout and red palette contrasting its blue counterpart. Layers of paint, tile and epoxy flooring were stripped to reveal the plywood ceiling, douglas fir beams, lightweight concrete block walls, and original concrete floor. Seventy-year-old redwood reclaimed from the screen is used exclusively for the trim carpentry. New elements introduced are teak, brushed limestone and waxed uncoated brass that will age with the house. Laundry is added, built into the backside of the kitchen, the wood structure and concrete slab is restored, curtains are replaced with Kvadrat textiles, windows are re-screened in bronze, mismatched textured glass is replaced to clear, discreet ductless air conditioning is added and the original hydronic radiant floor heating system is now plumbed to a smart, energy efficient tankless system. |
NICK’S Exhibit Design, Fabrication, Project Management, On-site SupervisionA traveling ice cream shop for Nick's and Meaningful Works A series of magical encounters with Nick's tasty treats initiated by light and conveyed through transparency in construction and material use. |
LEXUS CT UMBRA LEXUS CT UMBRADesign, Experiential Marketing, Fabrication, On-site Supervision As a visual representation of the campaign message, Lexus commissioned NONdesigns to create a sculptural representation of the CT 200h that will be displayed at events around the country. NON created a pixilated interpretation of the compact premium hybrid that treats viewers to the two personalities of the vehicle. When viewers walk around the installation, they experience a change in color from luxurious gold hues to organic tints of green and blue — representing the two seemingly contradictory perspectives of Lexus' fifth hybrid. |
DINGBAT TYPOGRAPHY Public Art Installation for City of West Hollywood and WORKPLAYS1035 N. Vista St., West Hollywood, CA The façade treatment entitled “DINGBAT TYPOGRAPHY” pays homage to this disappearing architecture by creating a set of typographical symbols of actual dingbat architecture that embellish a façade treatment on the front and side elevations of 1035 Vista Street. This representation of a much-criticized form of architecture ties the community to its past while serving as a reminder that we will move forward with social and ecological consciousness of architectural dwellings. |
ABZÛ E3 Exhibit Design, Fabrication, Project Management, On-site SupervisionA Tranquil Underwater Experience for 505 Games
For the E3 release of the peaceful free diving game, ABZÛ, NON created a geometric space that embodied the calm solitary and spirit of the brand. Visitors passed through a video tunnel with a transparent video wall flowing with underwater sea life and then discovered private gaming sanctuaries inside of geometric blue pods. |