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Surface Design Show 2024; Our Top Picks
Last week, our team had the opportunity to attend the Surface Design Show 2024, an inspiring event that showcases the latest trends and innovations in surface design. The show was a diverse and immersive experience, encompassing a wide range of materials, textures, and applications.
Designing for Neurodiversity
Interior design has, for most of time, been based around making spaces functional, safe, and beautiful by means of colour, texture, furnishings, lighting, art, and so forth but the goal posts in today’s society are changing. It is time to broaden our perspective on how a space can provide support and nourishment to the neurologically diverse.
Touch, Texture and Tactility: Clayworks
Are we losing touch with touch? Through the pandemic especially, we were desperately short on the textures, warmth, and imperfections that come from engaging with things in the tangible world — handcrafts, textiles, building materials, and each other.
A visit to the National Portrait Gallery - “more presence, more reach and more relevance”.
After a three-year closure, the gallery unveiled it’s newly configured space and brand identity. Phoenix Wharf went to London to explore the changes. Edit, a brand studio based in Manchester were behind the intelligent re-design. For the logo, they pulled references from sketches created by the gallery’s first director in 1893. Working with typographer and illustrator Peter Horridge and type foundry Monotype, a new monogram, logotype, typeface and colour palette, all inspired by historic reference points, were created.
Trend - Colour Drenching
What is colour drenching? The trend is all about immersing your space in one colour, from the walls and ceilings to the furniture and fittings. Different materials and textures provide visual interest and variety in this bold approach.
Insider - The Importance of Spatial Design
The effects of spatial design on your mood and behaviour are often talked about in the context of residential design but what about in public hospitality spaces? If our interiors have been proven to impact our feelings, behaviour, and physical wellbeing then it seems obvious that the function, layout, and adaptability of your restaurant can have a tremendous impact on the success of a business.