INTERIOR
Odyssey
CONCEPT DESIGNS FOR THE BESPOKE INTERIOR
Your journey of joyful discovery with exquisite interior design concepts – for your home, commercial space, transport, vehicles, private luxury getaways and residences.
Interior Odyssey does Design for Interiors and Spaces – Layout, Form, Function & Detail; Initial Concept Communication through to Technical Specification; Bespoke Product Design; Specialist & Unique Material Application; Proposal & Tender Presentations; Business Development Graphic Communication.
Interior Odyssey will guide you on your journey of delight and discovery, to uncover exciting new concepts for the design of your new interior space. With skilled multi-disciplined designers, interior designers and technicians as well as associates from industries as diverse as automotive and vehicle design, yacht interiors, product design, commercial and infrastructure design, you can be sure of some seriously eclectic, exotic and fascinating design concepts. Challenging enough to question the status-quo but pragmatic and practical enough to pass feasibility testing and budget constraints.
All projects start with an holistic, macro view of the clients’ ambitions and dreams, lifestyle choices and core functional imperatives, while investigating options for their realization.
To make the brief as inclusive as possible, building up what-if scenario’s, perhaps with the inclusion of techniques from complementary industries, combine to push the boundaries, to see just how unique and individual we can shape the customers solution.
Our clients’ want exclusivity and individuality. But it’s not just about making something unique. The client DNA has to be captured in the individuality and personality of the proposed solution.
Maybe it needs to have a future heritage to be passed down the generations. Or a story captured and memorialized into an experience that others can participate.
What we do - Consultation – equipped with an investigative lifestyle questionnaire to develop your aspirational brief and a scope of works, with concept designs for luxury interiors, special furniture and fixtures, bespoke products and artworks.
Concept design is essential for unveiling the possibilities of a variety of undiscovered solutions. It is not just thinking outside the box as much as redefining boundaries and challenging the entire system’s structure.
What we do - Concept Study - Working with professionals from all over the world, with our in-house style for focal point components and features derived from client lifestyle preferences, personality and interests, to present a fully researched concept design study.
What we do - Presentation Material – the presentation of developed design for interiors and products for clients’ visual assessment, reporting client usage feedback and analysis with ergonomics and anthropometric assessment.
What we do - Realization Planning - Working with in-house workshops and speciality manufacturers across industries for one-off design to manufacture and installation, with detailed build and cost estimate and project timeline planning.
You might be - investigating pieces of furniture for your new special space (whether in the City centre, out in the Country, floating out at Sea or high in the Sky), you can not find the multifunctional piece you desire. So you’d like someone to design with you, from the ground up, to include all your exacting requirements.
You might be – looking for your entertainment room / home-cinema to reflect not only your favourite car interior but have your automotive passion reflected in theme – available for all your guests to see and users to experience. They will be immersed in an unforgettable and unique experience.
You might be - Looking for an interior design using a theme unusual to architectural interiors. An automotive or sailing theme for a lounge? An aerospace theme in a bedroom? A space themed kitchen diner? Anything is possible when you have an open mind and imagination to dream big dreams.
Design is the planning as objectively as possible of everything that goes to make up the surroundings and atmosphere in which we live today. - Bruno Munari, one of the worlds most influential designers and described by Picasso as ‘the new Leonardo’.
Working from basic footprints, outlines, plans and schemes, a variety of options can quickly be visualized with basic elevation and section drawings and especially through perspective sketching. There may follow a colour scheme and materials discussion to pull together some design elements to help with the direction of the design development stage with input from both designer and client.
Concept design is essential for unveiling the possibilities of a variety of undiscovered solutions. It is not just thinking outside the box as much as redefining boundaries and challenging the entire system’s structure. When talking with clients it is important to record the discussions with written notes as well as with visuals, to keep an easily traceable change log.
This avoids the unnecessary revision of previously discounted concepts and their reintroduction, as well as confidence in the chosen direction when undertaking progress reviews.
Using an open and unfiltered concept investigation stage, we uncover idea opportunities that previously might have been thought impossible.
These ideas can then be incorporated as part of the design brief for further investigation and development.
The open nature of concept design development begins with the feasibility study.
Documenting and graphically representing ideas helps focus clients and suppliers on commercially feasible solutions. Sometimes plan drawings and 2D drawings are not enough to bring a holistic picture together for all to see early in projects. So a quick sketch can serve to consolidate attention in any given area for all the stakeholders to witness.
Superior design starts with great design concepts. The concept that succeeds will often arrive out of the blue, not having been at all obvious from the outset. These nuggets of inspiration and innovation are the product of rigorous investigation, analysis, benchmarking, feasibility and testing.
Concept Design for Interiors is an investigation into the world of bespoke design, prototype and build. It is swift communication of ideas and discussion with end users and clients. Building up pictures of human interaction, flow through space, workflow and activity, volume and space planning. All of which have to be fully considered in a modern user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design context.
A quick sketch is also the most “responsive” design tool there is – nothing can beat its speed for ideation and iteration. And it can quickly reflect and help tune the desired mood of interiors and spaces that people interact with.
Communication of this type is never really a finished product because it serves as a tool for fast decision making. The client often makes decisions using a process of elimination. When they ‘see’ the choices available they can quickly reject those not applicable and move on. At this stage they need not be dimensionally accurate as they're just serving a basic communication of ideas and thought process. And the omission of overly complicated initial detail will demonstrate the essential concepts for the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) incorporated in the design.
Concept Design for Interiors is an investigation into the world of bespoke design, prototype and build. It is swift communication of ideas and discussion with end users and clients. Building up pictures of human interaction, flow through space, workflow and activity, volume and space planning. All of which have to be fully considered in a modern user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design context.
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