Nurturing Your Child’s Creativity

Creativity is a place you and your child should go.
~ Sharon Exley.

In Nurturing Your Child’s Creativity from PechaKucha Night Chicago Vol. 32, Sharon Exley presents her top ten of how creativity, challenge, adventure and more is nurtured in children, which shows why apples don’t fall far from trees (via her own brave and artful explorer daughter Emma).

Happy Face Collection

Born In Brooklyn™
We’re thrilled to announce our The Happy Face Collection, part of the Born In Brooklyn Private Label. The collection is produced and sold via Fun Finders.

We see furniture and interactive elements for play and learning as objects of delight; saying to children “this is for you!”.

Form Follows Beauty

Form Follows Beauty, was presented in a fall PechaKucha by our very own Peter Exley, FAIA. Listen as Peter speaks about the relationship between art, design, architecture, lines, curves, and sensuality as well as the feminine form. Peter shows and tells – chit chatting about his artwork, created using what many would consider an unconventional tool.

Peter’s Pavers

Architecture Is Fun Designs Wallpaper for Studio Printworks
Characters, color and charm. Sharon and Peter Exley have a flair for adding fun and play to every environment and product they design. Inspired by the Roberto Burle Marx mosaic sidewalks in Rio de Janeiro, Peter’s Pavers is their first wallpaper release, introduced as part of the Studio Printworks Great Contemporary Artists Collection.

Designed by Architecture Is Fun With Love

Architecture Is Fun has been developing and designing products for you – at home, at work and at play.

Our newest designs include the Happy Face Stool Collection – a boy and girl stool that little ones will love! The new additions, the BFF’s will add kitty and dog, all family-friendly, of course. And moms should know, the stools scale up so parents can have their own kitchen stool, cheerful and content. For pricing info and to purchase, contact Fun Finders.

The Cave at Young At Art

Education Pavilion & Orientation Theatre
Young At Art Museum is an innovative art museum geared to children and families featuring an art cave for using art for learning.

Color In Spaces: Young At Art Museum

Sharon Exley was asked to write about her use of color at Young At Art Museum for an upcoming publication by Sendpoints Publishing Company. This excerpt from the feature demonstrates her sophisticated design approach to bringing this artful museum into full color!

Peter Exley Reminisces About Preparing Emma’s School Lunch

Architect Peter Exley, FAIA recalls every school lunch he packed for Emma – adorning brown paper bags with love, lifelong lessons, and humor (warning: laughter may make stuff come out of your nose!)

Leeds, Leeds, Cheap Trick, Leeds

For the PechaKucha Haiti Benefits, many presenters found it important to share glimpses of what propels them, what inspires them and what they obese over. Architecture Is Fun’s Peter Exley shares his obsessions – from Leeds United to Cheap Trick and more. Listen in – over 4800 have watched this show and tell online at PechaKucha.org.