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  • Start picking the lowest hanging fruit…If your not, assume everyone else is…

    Lowest hanging fruit are the easy wins. They are the easy reach for information, knowledge, access to industry professionals and more that allows you to grow, build, improve, change and learn faster, harder, smarter than the rest of the competition… (FYI everyone else on the group is your competition!) If…

  • Not all design is creative…Think beyond the fancy visuals and show me practicality to real world design problems…

    So when I’m interviewing someone and going through their folios, I always ask questions, and not the most obvious. When a design talks about a visual, I always ask further beyond the obvious, looking for something that tells me more about them. Why? Because I have to know how far…

  • Consider DDA design to show your skillset and more…

    If you are designing a kitchen, teapoint, bathroom, flat, hotel, workspace environment and more, always so an option as a DDA complaint version. If you are designing a residential block, make sure you allow for an option of a flats design and layout to be DDA complaint while maintaining your…

  • Stress and design and how to manage them both now…

    So the design industry is stressful, which ever way you look at it. As your career grows, so does the roles and responsibilities and therefore so does the stress… Going from university to your first company will be stressful regardless and depending on what your university taught you, will prepare…

  • What if I’m not as creative as everyone else……

    So hears the thing, in yr class there w ill also be that top tier, either an individual or a small group who are just great at coming up with interesting concepts and ideas and developing these into great projects….. How do they do it? Let me tell you, that’s…

  • What you say, tells me more about you than your design … .

    So if your read the posts (150+ and it will change your design outlook if you do…..!), you will notice I talk alot about things that aren’t creative, that aren’t aesthetic, that aren’t fancy or outstanding in colour, finish, etc etc. Why? Because these are the realities of design. The…

  • Exclusions and Clarifications …..

    When working on a project, it’s always important to understand what you are designing, what you are building and more importantly what work you are doing and where. You have to be 100% coordinated with the commercial team (costing departments) about what has been priced and what hasn’t. If you…

  • Graduate Detail Sheet.

    Graduate Detail Sheet. Thought you may want to see where you are at and where you want to be…….

  • Have you got the project matrix right yet?

    Have you got the project matrix right yet? How balanced is the percentage between Creativity v Realism v Buildability ? Are they all Creative heavy or do they vary from project to project? Does your folio reflect a good mix? Have you hit that sweet spot that’s dead center yet?

  • I see alot of posts looking for internships and placements…..

    I see alot of posts looking for internships and placements. At present with everything going on, I know it must be incredibly hard trying to find that company that will take you on that does the type of projects at style of interiors you are desperate to do. The important…