INTERIOR DESIGN BLOG

LIFE OF AN INTERIOR DESIGNER

Inspirational Visits

Birmingham Library

These are photographs from a trip to Birmingham Library to look at the architecture and the interior design of the building.

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Inspirational Visits

Selfridges – Birmingham

Photographs from a visit to Selfridges in Birmingham to get an idea for retail design and how displays are set up in a large department store.

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Steam Punk Coffee Shop

Steampunk Coffee Shop Container

This is my basic SketchUp model showing my design for the steampunk coffee shop container. It gives a slightly more real interpretation of what it would look like as I was able to use the materials pallete in SketchUp to create wood and glass etc. I …

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Lighting

Bruce Munro

Bruce Munro is an artist that works with light. Some of his installations are made from basic materials such as empty plastic bottles. I find it amazing how something so beautiful can be created using something that is usually basically rubbish. All of his work has …

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Lighting

Cerith Wyn Evans

Lighting by Cerith Wyn Evans at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London. I went for a visit and I was fascinated by the exhibition. I have added pictures of some of my favourite pieces of lighting.    

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Hotel Interiors

Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort

This is such a beautiful place in Lapland, Finland and I would love to go. It offers beautifully designer glass igloos to look up at the stars and the Northern Lights as well as log cabins. It is located in the middle of the wilderness so …

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Life of an Interior Design Student

Homemade Light Box – Tip

I have been working on A2 paper a lot and I cannot photocopy in A2 and light boxes are expensive, so I made my own. I have a very large fish tank (minus the fish obviously) that I picked up from FreeCycle, so I placed it …

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Residential Interior Design

Cesar Manrique Villa – Lanzarote

This is Cesar Manriques Villa that he designed in Lanzarote. The whole design of this villa has almost a natural organic look and feel about it even though it has a lot of man made elements. I like how a lot of the surfaces are painted …

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