Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Interior and Spatial Design

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Interior and Spatial Design at Newcastle College

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: arts
University website: www.ncgrp.co.uk
Foundation Degree (FD)

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Design
Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). In some cases, the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, coding, and graphic design) is also considered to use design thinking.
Interior
Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.
Plato, Socrates’ prayer in Phaedrus, 279
Interior
Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
George Orwell, Winston Smith's torturer, 1984
Design
If the chief rules of good design were understood by the masses as they might be, nothing would do more to promote beauty, improve workmanship, add to the value of manufactures, and in many other ways further the general welfare and prosperity of the country. They are simple, easy to acquire, and should be taught with the alphabet.
Ernest Flagg, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
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