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OCA Interior Design: Gingerbread City, London, December 2024
Posted: 16/01/25 09:25 |
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You might make and decorate a gingerbread house at Christmas time, but could you make a whole city? Gingerbread City is an exhibition of just that—a city made from decorated gingerbread. It might seem irrelevant to those studying interior design and something more like a children’s holiday activity, but this gingerbread city is made by very experienced design professionals, and the annual competition is taken very seriously!
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Textiles: In conversation with designer Caroline Cox
Posted: 01/10/19 09:04 |
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Caroline Cox is a printed textile designer, designing for space and interiors.
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Colour, form & composition
Posted: 04/03/19 09:59 |
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In this article you will find four exciting textiles artists where colour, form and composition take an important place within their work.
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Health and design
Posted: 24/03/11 09:04 |
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When we think of graphic design, the seductive packaging and branding of high street communications or the entertaining and eye catching gloss of the media might spring to mind. Graphic design helps to organise information, stamp identities onto objects and parcel up messages that are easy for us to access. While the majority of graphic […]
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Introducing Christian
Posted: 19/01/11 09:31 |
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Hello, my name is Christian Lloyd, OCA course author and tutor, and I’ve been invited to contribute illustration and graphic design related posts to WeAreOCA. Having eclectic personal tastes the postings may well stray into many other wonderful inter-connected areas which I hope will also be of interest. I think this might be a good […]
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New Designers in the making
Posted: 14/07/10 11:50 |
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The Business Design Centre in Islington is a great venue for designers to show their flair, with 65,000 square feet, a graceful iron arch originally designed as the Royal Agricultural Hall, opened in 1862. Now a thriving conference centre, the venue has, for the last couple of weeks, been jammed with creative young people, just […]
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