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ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PART 3: TEXTURE AND PATTERN

Design firm Cabinet Braun-Braën created a warm and intimate restaurant environment by applying texture using a brick wall finish. Before we talk about texture and how it can affect an interior space, let’s quickly debrief on the term “elements of design”. To create visually appealing spaces, interior designers apply various elements of design – line and shape, colour, texture & pattern, proportion, and light. In recent posts we discussed how lines and colour could be applied in commercial interiors to communicate a corporate message through a built environment, today let’s focus on texture and pattern.

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ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PART 4: LIGHT

This shabby chic tea company designed by Christine Rossi exhibits great lighting at the sales counter. Differing light levels create shadows and interest, and makes the product behind the counter the focus. In our previous few posts we have discussed line, colour, and texture and pattern; this post focuses on the ever important light as an element of design. Light is essential to any interior space as it is the means by which we can see our surrounding environment. The feeling of a space can be completely transformed by altering the intensity, placement and colour of light which makes it…

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ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PART 2: COLOUR

Colour can be applied to surfaces or as light to create interested and dynamic spaces. As mentioned in our last post, the elements and principles of design are guidelines that inform and influence the way that interior designers conceptualize and realize spaces we design. When it comes to commercial interior design we look at how these elements and principles can help to enforce your brand and communicate it to your clients in a built form. We’ve already discussed the use of line; how varying direction, and combining them to create shape and form have a variety of effects on clients…

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ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PART 1: LINE

This week in our elements of design series, were talking about line horizontal, vertical, curving, diagonal, each has an impact on how you perceive space.