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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
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.
Donald Norman (2002), The Design of Everyday Things, Introduction to the 2002 Edition
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