Interior Design Portfolio

Omar Owaini, an Alumni from our BA (Hons) Interior Design course, has produced a fantastic digital portfolio charting his progress during his three years of study. Omar's design for a lighting showroom is particularly striking, especially the staircase with flowing illuminated hand rail.

Follow Al Heighton's latest adventures

Al Heighton, a graduate from BA (Hons) Graphic Design, has updated his website. Al has a very distinctive illustrative style, and judging by his client list, he's going from strength to strength.  Have a look through Al's latest work and products, I currently coveting his happy faced mug... I wonder if there's frown on the other side?

Objectified - Product Design DVD

Directed by Gary Hustwit, Objectified is a feature-length documentary on product design. The film acts as a fantastic primer (especially for those interested in studying the subject), covering the breadth of product design (commercial drivers for product design through to conceptual products challenging our preconceived ideas of what objects should look like.

It was great to see one of our Product Design Alumni, Martin Kay, who works for global design consultancy IDEO in the film.

Best Album Art of 2009

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the awards, Art Vinyl has published it's list Top 50 Best Art Vinyl 2009 with the Muse album – ‘The Resistance’ winning first place.

Designed by La Boca the Muse album's illustrative style differs slightly from the brilliant retro work in their portfolio, but it shows their fantastic use of colour, and sci-fi leanings.

Cardboard Interiors

Using relatively cheap and often overlooked materials in new ways alway attracts my attention, so I was instantly smitten when I spotted this fantastic interior on Dezeen. Jeroen van Mechelen of Studio JVM has designed a cardboard room inside a villa.

I'd love to see a whole exhibition built using this technique, it radically changes the dynamics of a space (in this case warming and softening) and offers a multitude of possibilities, though I'd be a little worried about the heat from lights and the steam from the shower in this example!