This Creative film really captures the truth about what we as commercial designers believe.  How do you define the value of design?  Why do Businesses retain Commercial Interior Design as a key experience based ‘Design Strategy’?

Please watch the short film below, ask yourself what does it means to your business? The answer is  subjective and will be the title of my next Blog Post .

A recent via interiors poll confirmed our suspicions:

Designers are Employed to:

Create a Culture and Brand Recognition within an environment
Ensure Regulations and Code of Practice is fulfilled
To Save Time and Save Cost
Promote Confidence in the decision making Process
Spend wisely and effectively by communicating with a knowledgeable individual
Create Consistency and Brand Recognition

We value your comments and would like to understand your thoughts as to why you believe in retaining a professional qualified Designer?

You can go to Vancouver from 26-30 April 2010 and be part of the discussion. And lots of other cool design stuff Register today! www.designweekvancouver.ca

Thanks to Design Week for sharing this thought provoking video.  Whose theme of Design Currency 2010 is ‘Defining the Value of Design’. To promote the event and play off the ideas of currency and value, we designed and printed over 2200 custom bills and fed them through a money counter to create this animation.

Creative credits:

Rethink:
Creative Director: Ian Grais
Art Director: Todd Takahashi
Copywriter: Keri Zierler
Designer: Jeff Harrison
Designer: Rory OSullivan
DP #2: Chris Nielsen
Broadcast Producer: Laura Rioux
Print Producer: Jim Leith
Account Manager: Jillian Yaehne

Giant Ant Media:
Director/DP/Editor/VFX: Jay Grandin
Director/Animator/Editor/VFX: Todd Smith

Wave Productions:
Audio Producer/Engineer: Brandon Edwards
Original music by: Brandon Edwards
Illustrator: Jeff Burgess
Printer: Total Graphics

Thursday 10 June 2010 6:00 PM

Women in Property Event

in partnership with via interiors and Irwin Mitchell, Leeds

To maximise your potential for growing your business or brand….. Once we’ve got you started on Twitter, with a profile and routine, we’ll look at how to maximise Twitter’s potential for growing your business or brand. Irwin Mitchell, 2 Wellington Place, Leeds, LS1 4BZ. Full booking details to follow.

Book you place to network with Property Professionals of Yorkshire and learn the latest on how to aid your business collaborate effectively with Social media.

We look forward to seeing you there! Men and women invited.

If you’d like to meet like minded property professionals try an event, Women in Property are looking for new members.

Jane Verity-Smart Race for Life, Leeds 19 June, 2010

Jane Verity-Smart, Via interior’s,  Strategic Interior Designer and Project Manager, has entered  Race for life a 5k run. Her passion for sport has seen her push herself to beat her personal best at every occasion. Those who know Jane will be aware that her determination will push her to a new level.  Her new found  interest for running  helps her to be objective and innovative in business.

Events like Race for Life are vital in funding Cancer Research UK’s life-saving work into preventing, diagnosing and treating cancer. By sponsoring Jane Verity-Smart now you can help more people survive cancer. Jane has experienced how cancer can affect those close to her and has decided to support the cause and join her two sisters at Temple Newsam, Leeds to take part 10 June, 2010. Jane has begun training which is challenging normally you will find Jane swimming or taking part in a pilates class, due to a back condition.

Please visit Jane Verity-Smart’s Race for Life sponsorship page. Please support the cause and dig deep to sponsor Jane online – it’s quick, easy and totally secure.

Gift Aid it!

If you are a UK taxpayer, please remember to tick the Gift Aid box when donating so that an extra 25%, plus a 3% supplement, can be added to your gift at no cost to you.

Every pound you donate really does make a difference – so please sponsor Jane now!

Many thanks for your support – Together we will beat cancer.

Strategic design and development with indepth knowledge of implementing breeam ratings to your architecture saves you energy in the long term by reducing your co2 emissions year on year. Employing architectural design services provides you with the the core  foundation  to run your business. Providing  you with product knowledge  which encapsulates much more than a positive environment, we build you a business structure to enhance your processes and efficiency by considering functionality, ecology, sustainablity and new technologies.

Most importantly the endless products we develop individual products to specifically fit your brief ensuring that your needs are met each and every time.

Contact @viainteriors

If you want to create the ‘wow factor’ look no further!

This year it was time to aim even higher and Steve entered the London Trialthon which was staged at Excel in Docklands on 1st & 2nd August. Here is Steve’s first-hand account of his experience:

“As we arrived at Excel, the sheer scale of the event suddenly dawned on me. This was no local tri with a mere few hundred competitors, but a renowned ‘institution’ on the tri calendar, with thousands of people coming in from all over the world!

We made our way to the rally point to collect our caps and numbers and then jumped en mass into the Royal Albert Dock and made our way to the start line. The gun went and all five hundred competitors in my group began to swim. At that moment I knew exactly what it would be like to be spinning in a washing machine drum! After a few hundred meters the adrenaline began to wear off and space opened up so I could start to swim effectively.
Out of the water, through transition, and onto the bike. It was exhilarating not have to dodge the traffic and jump the lights on the capitals’ closed roads. Stage two down and back to transition to change for the final leg – the run. Only 10km to go to the finish line and the completion of my first Olympic distance triathlon. Total exhilaration……….and exhaustion!”