WHAT WE DO
NBBO regularly collaborates with leading agencies, brands and multidisciplinary teams, providing research, strategy and experience design expertise across complex retail and brand transformation projects.
WE BELIEVE
Good designers are curious, creative, analytical and deeply empathetic. These qualities help them to recognise patterns, connect ideas and understand the root cause behind complex problems, creating opportunities to design meaningful experience and solutions.
At NBBO, we apply this thinking to the design of physical spaces and experiences. Grounded in architecture and interior design, we create environments and spatial strategies that shape how people feel, behave and connect in the real world, whether through defining a brand moment, or elevating everyday rituals at home, work and beyond.
We believe thoughtfully designed environments create lasting value for our clients, the people who experience them, and the collaborators who bring them to life.
HELLO FROM OUR FOUNDER
Nicole Buchanan is the founder of NBBO. Trained as an interior architect in Melbourne, Australia she has also studied UX design and storytelling and has lived and worked across Asia, the United Kingdom and Europe.
Her career spans retail, brand experience, residential, and commercial design, leading complex projects for global brands in both in-house and agency environments.
Nicole combines strategic thinking with creativity, design rigour and always takes a deeply human-centred approach with her clients.
Grounded in an understanding of how people experience physical spaces, Nicole creates strategies and designs environments that solve problems, influence behaviour, evoke emotion and elevates the rituals of everyday life.
Some of the brands Nicole has had the opportunity of working with on transformational projects