We are a unique design practice as we create and transform places and spaces for people to dwell, work, eat, play, shop and live and also enable people to reignite their own inner creativity through creativity workshops and individual programs.
We are placemakers, we design places that are unique, have meaning and reflect the values and demographics of the communities in which they reside. We have expertise in creating a dynamic vision for our projects using creative thinking to consider design solutions in a new way.
We work with corporations, developers, asset managers, leasing teams and individuals to create an experience that resonates with all stakeholders, the client, the customers, the retailers and the community.
We are passionate about enabling people to connect with their own inner creativity and mental wellness through our workshops and personalised programs.
We enable creativity, meaning, vitality and beauty in spaces, places and people.
About
Founder, Principal Designer and Director.
Sally is a Creative Leader, a Designer, and a Creative Arts Therapist.
Sally has over 30 years experience as a qualified designer of spaces and places both interior and exterior. Her expertise as a creative leader of projects both in Australia and Internationally extends from vision creation for projects, conceptualisation, design strategy, placemaking, concept design to delivery, detailing of projects, furniture design and art curation.
Sally is passionate about creativity and creative thinking. She has her own creative practice which includes ceramics, sculpture, drawing and guided meditation.
Sally believes we are all creative and has developed Mindful Creativity workshops and programs enabling people to go within to reignite their own inner creativity. She believes we increasingly require people and organisations to be resilient and adaptive through mindfulness and creatively problem solving, whilst nurturing their own inner wellness.
Sally also has an Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Therapy (Art Therapy), a certificates in Meditation Facilitation and Immersive Coaching and 250 hour Yoga Teacher Training. Her workshops and individual programmes are designed to enable people to go within, build resilience and thrive in an ever changing world, through mindful creativity and creative processes.
Sally McBean
Anya Kostromina
Senior Interior Designer
www.inCollective.co
Anya has over 15 years experience as an interior designer working on diverse projects from retail, residential, hospitality and commercial. She is skilled in concept design, documentation and delivery of projects.
Kate Cosgrave
Senior Interior Designer
Kate has over 16 years experience working on various projects from retail, hospitality and commercial. She is skilled in concept design, leading teams, documentation and delivery of projects.
Carol Hudson
Art Consultant and Designer
www.carolhudson.com.au
www.artoure.com
Artoure founder and director Carol Hudson (MFA M.Des. UNSWAD) has created, exhibited, worked and taught both locally and internationally. Her exceptional experience and qualifications have led to Artoure, where artists with committed and thoughtful practices, and inspired art buyers and collectors meet. Carol is also a talented artist and designer.
We believe collaboration is the future of work. We believe in problem solving through collaboration, design and creativity.
We bring together the appropriate team for each project from our diverse network of expert, qualified professionals, some of whom we have featured here.
We collaborate with a passionate team of diverse, creative professionals with vast experience in architecture, interior design, retail design, graphic design, lighting design, art curation, placemaking, art teaching, art therapy and holistic coaching.
Collaborators
Negin Shagan
Holistic Coach and Art Therapist
Negin is a holistic coach who empowers people to build their life’s vision, uncover their mission, and grow in love, success and abundance by becoming confident in their talents. Combining coaching skills and art therapy she empowers individuals and teams in shifting and transforming their mindsets in order to achieve their full potential.
Bill Dimas
Art Consultant
Wlitshire + Dimas and Ambush Gallery
www.wdmanagement.com.au
Bill has over 15 years senior management experience in the property industry, with extensive experience across all aspects of placemaking, marketing and communications. His creative consultancy, Wiltshire + Dimas, was established in 2004 with partner John Wiltshire, and has grown to become a leader in the property industry.
Michel Goupy
Principal Lighting Designer
LightStudioMV
www.lightstudiomg.com
Michel Goupy is the Principal of LightStudioMG which is an independent and specialist lighting design consultancy based in Sydney. They are an Australian company with wide international experience. Award-winning architectural lighting design work includes hospitality, commercial, retail, civic and residential projects.
History
McBean and Co Design was established in 2000 as a Design Consultancy focusing on Retail Design. Our projects include multiple Shopping Centres, Department Store in Beijing China and smaller projects, retail store designs, cafes, restaurants and residential renovations.
Sally enjoyed a 13 year corporate hiatus as the Creative Leader and Head of Interior Design of Scentre Group (owners and operators of Westfield Centres in Australia and New Zealand). Working across the portfolio of 42 Westfield Centres and leading a team of talented designers and architects on multiple major development projects as well as many ambience upgrades of existing malls.
During her time at Scentre Group Sally became increasingly interested in creative thinking processes, realising that she and her team took this form of thinking for granted, but working with stakeholders from different disciplines understood that many people had been trained in more logical paradigms. She created a Creativity Workshop and guided a selection of people through creative processes and creative thinking. They found different ways of problem solving, were taught mindfulness practices and tools and realised they too were creative.
Sally believes everyone is creative.
Creative Integration
Sally realised her dream was to create beautiful places and spaces and to help people develop their inner creativity. McBean and Co was re established and Sally’s love of learning was reignited. She studied Creative Art Therapy and Immersive Guided Meditation to understand more about the psychology and science of energy in relation to creativity and our subconscious.
Sally has worked with wonderful clients reimagining spaces and places, creating concepts designs and undertaking ambience upgrades of existing centres.
Sally believes the future is transforming existing places and creating vibrant spaces that resonate with people emotionally, connecting communities and people to place.
Vision
Our vision is enabling creativity, meaning and beauty in spaces, places and people.
Our vision is to foster a sense of pride and belonging in spaces, reflecting the communities values, creating cultural significance, promoting engagement, reintroducing nature, creating spaces that induce wellness and play. Place is increasingly recognised as fundamental to our emotional health and we believe in creating places of wellness and aesthetic beauty for all to enjoy.
Our vision is also to reignite creativity and build creative confidence in people. Our workshops and individual programs are designed to reconnect people with their inner creativity, intuition and the ability to problem solve creatively. Our world needs more creativity, beauty and people who believe in the power of creative thinking.
Methodology
Our studio is founded on the holistic principals of creative thinking, collaboration, analysis and design. Every project requires research, a vision, and an appropriate design response to enable its relevance in the community in which it resides.
We work collaboratively with all stakeholders, our clients, the professionals who lease and develop spaces, retailers, asset managers, the people who maintain spaces and are seeing the spaces every day and of course the customers. This holistic methodology enables ongoing feedback, maintenance and ultimately success and longevity of any project, precinct, place, space or design.