Interior Design – Competition time!
Posted: 28/03/24 04:24 | 2 Comments
The British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) has recently announced that entry is now open for their 2024 Student Drawing Competition.
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Catherine Byrne
Critical reviews in Interior Design
Posted: 19/01/24 10:05 | 3 Comments
Just before Christmas I was lucky enough to be invited to take part in some first year student reviews with the Interior Architecture degree course at Westminster University in London. As a tutor it’s really helpful for me to see the work of students at other institutions so that I have an idea of the wider picture of Interior Design education (and student output) in the UK today.
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Introducing our Interior Design External Examiner, Marianna Velissaropoulou
Posted: 09/11/23 10:07 | 3 Comments
With assessment events held regularly three times a year, many of you will be familiar with what happens once you have completed the final assignment of your unit. But you might not know what happens in between the point that OCA staff have assessed your work, and the day that the confirmed result comes to you. Our current external examiner agreed to answer a few questions to throw some light on her role, what she most enjoys about being an external examiner with us at OCA, and whether she has any hints and tips for you as Interior Design students going forward for assessment.
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Department stories: Interior Design
Posted: 17/07/23 09:31 | 4 Comments
The Architecture Room at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has been curated this year by architect Peter Barber. The work on display shows enormous variety in approaches to spatial model making, and underlines the necessity of using this hands-on physical method of design development as a way of experimenting freely and creatively.
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Student stories: Tracy Walker
Posted: 23/02/23 11:04 | 11 Comments
In this blogpost I’d like to introduce one of our most established interior design degree students – Tracy. Tracy has been studying with us for some time, and it has been great to see how far she has progressed on her learning journey with OCA over the last few years, and how much her design work has developed.
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Study event review: Interior Design & Garden Design
Posted: 17/11/22 09:54 | 2 Comments
On a sunny Saturday in November a group of Interior Design and Garden Design students and tutors met up at the Royal Festival Hall on Londons’ SouthBank. It was a long anticipated event (delayed somewhat by Covid) that some had been looking forward to for two years!
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A trip to the 2021 London Design Festival
Posted: 12/11/21 09:01 | 2 Comments
In late September 2021 a small group of OCA Interior Design students met to visit the London Design Festival together. London Design Festival is an annual event that celebrates, and promotes, London as the design capital of the world. An ambitious task, and certainly some of the projects and installations on display were very impressive, but is London the design capital of the world? We spoke with two of the students who went, to see what they thought of the festival.
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What kind of spatial designer am I? #4 Grant Armstrong
Posted: 14/05/21 09:22 | 2 Comments
Studying Interior Design, Spatial Design, Interior Architecture – or any kind of design of the built environment – can lead to many different careers. In this series of blog posts we are looking at the experience and careers of different design professionals and finding out what inspired them to study in the first place. Our fourth design professional is Grant Armstrong, an experienced supervising art director and production designer for film and television.
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What kind of spatial designer am I? #3 Tansy Hargan, artist.
Posted: 01/04/21 09:02 | 3 Comments
Studying Interior Design, Spatial Design, Interior Architecture – or any kind of design of the built environment – can lead to many different careers. In this series of blog posts we are looking at the experience and careers of different design professionals and finding out what inspired them to study in the first place. Our […]
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What kind of spatial designer am I? #2 Ian Rudolph, Architect.
Posted: 17/03/21 09:27 | 0 Comments
Studying Interior Design, Spatial Design, Interior Architecture – or any kind of design of the built environment – can lead to many different careers. In this series of blog posts we are looking at the experience and careers of different design professionals and finding out what inspired them to study in the first place. Our […]
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