I thought over the next few months we look at some of the hot issues in the interior design world. These topics will appeal to pretty much everyone who has even the slightest interest in interior design or is looking to appoint an interior designer for a future project. Interior Design Blogs line [...]
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Can’t Touch This – Museum Display Cases – Acrylic or Glass (4)
March 26, 2012
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So its time to answer the question you have wanted to know since (part 3) Invisible display cases or may be you have been trawling the internet in the mean time for the definitive answer to “what is the best materials to make museum display showcases from”? Well the answer is both; it just depends [...]
Read more Can’t Touch This – The Invisible Museum Display Cases (3)
February 1, 2012
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In part of one of the “can’t touch this” series of blogs we already touched on the goal of invisible museum display cases / vitrines in this the third article we return to the same subject of how to achieve this. The process of achieving a successful museum or exhibition showcase design, build and installation is [...]
Read more WWF 50th Anniversary Exhibition & Event
November 30, 2011
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We were delighted when we were approached by World Wildlife Fund to provide exhibition & lighting design consultancy on this prestigious event. It was particularly important for WWF they worked with a design company with environmental & eco-friendly principles & ethos. SMA design’s own eco evolution started over 7 years ago, which leaves our consultancy uniquely [...]
Read more Commercial & Architectural Lighting Design: Please don’t leave it to us!
November 7, 2011
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Sorry for the delay in bringing this next part of our lighting design blog on commercial and architectural lighting design, but as you have probably seen our studios have been very busy on project all in some way needing quality lighting layouts. “Please don’t leave it to us” might seem a strange title for a [...]
Read more Can’t Touch This – Museum Exhibition Display Showcases (2)
September 20, 2011
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So is that Vitrines or Showcases? Ok so you have a new exhibition, museum or visitor centre that requires new glass display showcases or acrylic vitrines. Now if you were paying attention you might have noticed that I can’t make up my mind whether to write museum display showcases or exhibition vitrines or both? The [...]
Read more Enough Headaches – The Well-being Factor of Lighting Design
June 2, 2011
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Architectural lighting design or commercial lighting can either make or break the spaces we work, rest, shop or play in so it is important to get the building lighting design right first time. Good lighting design can create drama, define, accentuate and enrich on so many different levels, get it wrong and the opposite it [...]
Read more Green initiatives
May 18, 2011
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We have been growing our green initiatives seeds & ideas to a new level in the last couple of months. (Yes we have been busy bees) The teams here always keeps up with the latest eco-technologies, researches and seminars ensuring our projects include the most modern & efficient eco-friendly solutions and are environmentally accommodating. It [...]
Read more Lighting Design – It’s a difficult choice (Part One)
February 21, 2011
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As promised this months trek really is going to try to spell out the main differences and myths that surround various lighting technologies which are being used in museum, retail and office environments. Let’s start with LED’s as they are certainly the relatively new boy on the block and in my view the way forward [...]
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