DESIGN RESULTS FROM human decisions. You can design with intention, which means you have a chance of doing it well, or you can let it happen, which means you’ll probably fail...
Well, well, well, it looks like Singapore has turned up the heat for the past two months! With temperatures soaring higher than the tallest building (we’re exaggerating) in the city-state, it's safe to say that we've been sweating more than a politician during an election campaign.
STYLES COME AND GO Just when I thought that the long lived Scandinavian interior design theme is phasing out, the world decided to prolong it’s live a little longer by coming up with a fusion concept called, ‘Japandi.’
Have you ever thought about it? Modern living and rapid urbanization actually mean that we are spending more and more time indoors.
The last few days, the internet was buzzing with sinister looking lift lobbies and with bright red colour splashing our social feeds. Some creative memes came out, from Ah Long getting creative with their scare tactics to a scene from Residential Evil.
With all the talk about AI bots like CHAT GPT, Discord’s Mid Journey, every designer we know, had been talking to us about AI and whether our AI will ever replace their job and take over their livelihood. Since SIXiDES has an AI function in our EQuote (embed link here), I thought it would be good to discuss this topic.
Before anyone flags me and call me a con-man, I am truly a certified Feng Shui practitioner and here is my certificate of practice that I graduated from since the Singapore Feng Shui Centre, under the tutelage and mentorship of Grandmaster Vincent Koh, (one of the few Grandmasters in the world!) in 2010.
Raise your hands, if the last designer or renovator who did up your home or the one currently doing your home, suggested to you that they will create a group chat and manage your home renovation project with that app.
As an interior designer with over 25 years of experience, both domestically and regionally, I have noticed the phenomenon of consumers themselves replacing the role of an interior designer. In home related projects and in more economically advanced countries like Singapore, Malaysia and China.
In this article, we are going to be talking about what real interior designers do vs renovators. There’s a distinct difference and it's not just about qualifications.
Some designers continuously come up with awkward designs for their customers’ homes. Do they do it with the best intentions? Do they do it because it addresses functional and aesthetic needs?
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