Category Archive for 'general'

Move or improve

Friday, September 26th, 2008

According to a recent survey, 91% of homeowners who wanted to move house this year have called off their plan for a while - many of them have decided to improve their current home instead..

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Open house

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Every year, at the end of September, many public and private buildings open their doors so that more people can experience London’s diverse architecture. Designers, architects and non-professionals can take a look at famous buildings as well as presidential properties for ideas, inspirations and insights of history. This coming weekend you can choose from 699 [...]

London Design Festival 2008

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

This year’s London Design Festival runs from 13th to 23rd September. Here a few events that promise to be interesting. Whether you’re a designer or have interest in the latest designs then the following might be worth a look..

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Don’t miss in September

Friday, September 5th, 2008

 
Summer is over. Well, if you can call it a summer, given that we had 10 days at max of nice weather. Some of you (the lucky ones) are just about to head of somewhere nice and hot (at an affordable price) whilst the rest of us are back at the office worrying about how [...]

New Year Resolutions

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Firstly, on behalf of ForLook design, we’d like to wish all our readers and clients a very happy New Year.The beginning of a year is always a quiet time for designers – this is when we rejuvenate our design energy; do a bit of research; get inspirations; sort out our material library and so on…Next [...]

Eco Christmas

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

It’s no longer just the right thing to do to live an eco-friendly life, it’s become chic and hip to do so. Therefore more and more people count their carbon-footprints; recycle religiously; consciously try to save energy; eat only locally produced organic food and so on. Yet at Christmas time this lifestyle tends to go [...]

100% design

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Between the 20th and 23rd of September, Earls Court will again be hosting the 100% Design show, this year joined with 4 other exhibitions:- 100% Detail, 100% Light, 100% Materials and 100% Futures.Whether you’re a designer or just interested in interior design, this annual exhibition is always worth a visit. You are able to see what’s in [...]

London Design Festival

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Today is the beginning of the London Design Festival. This is the festival’s fifth year - it will last for 11 days. There will be many events, projects & exhibitions spreading across the city. However, the hub of the festival is the South Bank - specifically the Royal Festival Hall, where you attend talks and [...]

More things to do

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

This weather is appalling, isn’t it? It’s bad enough that most of us are bored to death in our offices ( colleagues, clients, subcontractors… everybody on holiday), but not even being able to enjoy a bit of evening or weekend sunshine is just awful.
Anyway, if you can’t sit outside and enjoy a glass of wine [...]

Summer exhibitions

Monday, August 13th, 2007

August is not a good month for us designers. Most of the clients and sub-contractors are on holiday - some manufacturers are closed for the whole month (particularly in southern Europe!) - so we just sit in our offices, surfing the net, cleaning up our files and dreaming about being somewhere hotter and sunnier. Well, [...]