Happy New Year

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year and best wishes for 2017.

Happy Christmas

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas

Some fun + festive decorating ideas

Fun + Festive Decorating Ideas

Christmas Decorating Ideas

Christmas tree decorating ideas

Paris Deco Off 2017

Next month, from January 19th to 23rd 2017, the Paris Deco Off tradeshow will be on. This free event is celebrating its 8th year. Check out the website for more details. 

Paris Deco Off

3rd Year's on tour in County Limerick

At the Natural Sleep Company in Ballylanders

3rd Years with Majella Murphy, Business Developer, CareBright

Archiproducts Web Selector

Check out 

Archiproducts

for selecting some finishes for your project work

Forbo Talk...

Thanks to Noel Hogan from Forbo Flooring who was in the studio to give us a talk 

on their extensive products.

Forbo Flooring

Student Competition

The 14th 'Textile Structure for New Buildings 2017' being run by Techtextil is looking for new innovative ideas from students on how to use textiles as a building material. The award-winning designs will be presented at Techtextil 2017, a leading international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens. 

Find out more here Student Competition

Decoholic...

This a good website resource for inspiration

Decoholic

Another one for Year 2...

Tiny House nation is worth a look when designing small spaces

Tiny House Nation

One for Year 2...

A short clip of The Style Club a new concept in hairdressing for Peter Mark Salon in Dublin designed some years ago by Designer Garry Cohn

Nordic Design Magazine

Web link below for Nordic Design Magazine

Nordic Design

Interiors Association AGM

Good website on Scandinavian Designers

Scandinavian Designers

Year 3 - Radio Interview

Very interesting radio interview from last Monday's Newstalk Drive show with a person diagnosed with Dementia - it is worth a listen (feature at the end of the feature)

Newstalk Drive - 21st/Nov Part 3

Happy Thanksgiving to you all...

Umdasch Shopfitting

Umdasch Shopfitting

The market leaders in shopfitting are worth looking into 

for your current project

www.vitra.com

Dublin Architectural firm Grafton Architects win the first ever RIBA International award for their 'Brutalist' design of the new Engineering University in Lima, Peru. 

See the weblink below for more.

Grafton Architects RIBA prize

Third years....CareBright

This web link may help you in the development of ideas for you scheme for CareBright.

How to develop interior design concepts

Check out a very exciting acoustic company that may be 

useful for some of your project work

Buzzi Space

Open Source Prosthetics with Jen Owen

This Tuesday the 22nd November see an e-NABLE event take place in our local FAB LAB in Ruthland Street in Limerick. Co-founder Jen Owen is coming from Seattle to speak. Find out more on the Fab Lab website. 

nablejenowen

3rd Year Info for CareBright

Please see two web links below for bedroom equipment for CareBright.

Enable Supplies

Assist Ireland

Accora

W2W Awards

Well done to Waqar and former LIT ID+T student Alvin Lai for being shortlisted for the W2W 'Articulating the Workspace' National design competition. 

Both students were commended at last night's award in BDO, Dublin. 

Alvin is now on the Level 8 Interior Architecture programme at CIT. 

Visit to Dulux

Thanks to both Dulux and Cora Collins for their hospitality today 

during the students trip to the Dulux Factory in Cork City. 

Dulux trip

This Friday 18th November sees a course trip to Dulux Paint in Cork. 

Chat to Niall if you are able to make it. 
It proves to be a very intersteding visit. 

https://www.dulux.ie/en

Second Year Talk

Thanks to Third Year Patty Horan for taking the second years through her last project, 'Articulating the Workspace' this morning. 

Waqar shortlisted for W2W Awards

Well done to third-year student Waqar Ali who was shortlisted for the W2W 'Articulating the Workspace' Awards being held in Dublin next Friday 18th November.We wish you the best of luck Waqar.

You can view Waqar's competition entry along with all the other 3rd-year work at Moylish Campus library until Wednesday 16th November.

Meeting with Tullio Orlandi

Thanks to Tullio for a really interesting tour of La Cucina's new restaurant today.

Site visit this Friday 11th November

A walk and talk around two schemes of Limerick Interior Designer, Tullio Orlandi is organised for this Friday in the city center. 
The first years are meeting at 9am.
Year 2 and 3 are meeting at 9.40am.

Check out Tullio's website to see some more of his schemes.

Tullio Orlandi

3rd Year Exhibition

Well done to our third Years on their exhibition at the library. 

It will continue until next Wednesday, 16th November 2016. Thank you to everyone for your support and attending the opening yesterday.

3rd Year Exhibition

Tomorrow, Wednesday 9th November at 3.45pm see's the opening of an exhibition of the third year ID+T's design proposals for a recent National design competition, 'Articulating the Workspace' at Moylish Campus Library.

Light refreshment will be served - all are welcome. 

For Year 2 - Product design drawing

You Tube clip on ideation sketching for product design which you can apply to your concept development for Project Brief 5.

Grads 2016

Well done to the 2016 class 

of Interior Design + Technology who graduated today, Friday 4th November. 

Marie Somers with Oscar Kiernan, Business Development Manager W2W, who presented Marie with the Award in Excellence for Interior Design + Technology

at yesterday's graduation ceremony.

Irish Design Week 2016

Design Week 2016 takes place from 7th to 14th of November. 

Please see the web link below for a list of events.

Design Week

One for the 3rd Years...

55,000 people are living with dementia in Ireland, with over 11 people developing it a day. Dementia is an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory. Alzheimer disease accounts for 60 - 80% of cases.
Please see a web link below by the HSE with some further information for your research. 

http://hse.ie/dementia

Happy Halloween 😉

Take a look at @TurnerMidAtl's Tweet: https://twitter.com/TurnerMidAtl/status/793123123520540672?s=09

Millennium Film Club - Tuesday 1st November

Millennium Film Club - "Dawn of the Dead"

Tuesday 1st November @ 8pm      

Follow the link for more information

 

LIT Millennium Theatre, Moylish Park, Limerick

 

CareBright Community

The 3rd Years have just started working on their new project, a collaboration with CareBright Community in Bruff, County Limerick. This is a new housing model for people living with Dementia. It is the first of its kind to be built in Ireland.

Article in the Irish Examiner - July 2016

Ideal Homes Exhibition

The annual Ideal Homes Exhibition is due to take place this coming October Bank holiday weekend in the RDS. It might be an option for some of you to visit.

Please see the web link for more information.

 

 

Ideal Home Exhibition

Interiors web site of interest

 

Please see a web link below for a architecture and interiors news website which might be of interest to some of you.

 



World Architecture News

2016 Salary Guide for Interior Design

 

Please see a web link for 2016 salary guide for Interior Design in the UK.

UK Interior Design salary guide

New website...'Homes'

Link to an interesting new website.

homes.interiordesign.net

You can also follow them on Instagram.

3rd Year - Creating A1 Posters

Please see a weblink for a YouTube tutorial below for creating an A1 poster in Photoshop, Powerpoint and Adobe In Design.

A1 Poster

3rd Year - Personal Statements

Third Years, you may find the below web link very helpful for finalising your personal statements and design solutions for PB2 'Articulating the Workspace' 

Universal Design Awards Platform