General Websites
Web: www.metropolismag.com
Metropolis examines contemporary life through design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation.
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Web: www.trendhunter.com
The largest community for Trends, Trend Spotting, Cool Hunting, and Innovation. Fashion Trends, Style, Gadgets, Technology, Pop Culture, Art.
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Web: www.studentfinance.ie
This website is a convenient and user-friendly source of information on financial support for further and higher education in the Republic of Ireland.
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Web: www.channel4/4home.com/
Endless information from experts or otherwise about your home, buying, selling, decorating, refurbishing, self build etc.
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Web: www.wallpaper.com
The sumptuous magazine converts chicly to the web. The internet format allows the incorporation of rich media. Even their video skin is annoyingly cool.
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Web: www.dezeen.com
With a simple mission to "bring you news of great projects before anyone else", they generally do. The site is cleanly designed and the photographs sagely selected.
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Web: www.thebluebook.co.uk
The most complete, most useful online product information resource. You can view full product details, download drawings and CAD files, and use the unique specification tools to produce and manage detailed and accurate projects
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Web: www.fitoutireland.com
An Irish website with a complete online resource for
Architects, designers and specifiers, keep up to date
with new products, design ideas, experts opinions,
Industry developments and status.
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Web: www.fabricsandpapers.com
An online shop where you can buy thousands of curtain fabrics and upholstery fabrics, wallpapers and wall coverings from most of the leading British and European design houses. We now have a stunning collection of cushions and throws in the shop, you can even order them in your own choice of fabric. |
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Web: www.farrow-ball.com
One of the only companies left that produces natural paints and traditional printing methods for wall papers. Expensive but fantastic traditional colours of a high quality. |
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Web:www.tektura.com
A company that specialises in paper backed and
Fabric backed vinyls with an extensive range of designs.Perfect for use in commercial settings due to its durability.They also provide a digital printing facility where you can specifiy any image you wish for large prints. |
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Web: www.ulstercarpets.co.uk
A carpet manufacturer that supplies carpets for both
residential and contract. High quality wool carpets that can be custom made to our bespoke designs. |
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Title of the Company: Colour Scheme Generator
Web: www.wellstyled.com
The Color Scheme Generator is the perfect tool to brush up on your colour theory and practice your colour combinations for interiors. |
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Title of the Company: Design4Design
Web: www.design4design.com
Search function for information on museums, galleries, design associations, exhibitions and events, articles and design weblinks. |
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Title of the Company: Design Nation
Web: www.designnation.co.uk
Search function for design topics, UK designers, galleries, retailers and suppliers. |
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Title of the Company: Design Week
Web: www.designweek.co.uk
Design Week’s website was launched on 27 Nov 2006, and contains the latest breaking design news from across a range of commercial design disciplines. From retail to product, packaging to graphic, interior to exhibitions and digital to web - there’s something for everyone involved in the design industry. Since its conception, Design Week has been a unique source of exclusive news, sharp commentary and top design jobs. Read by designers the world over, the depth of experience found in Design Week is unparalleled in print or on the web. For twenty years we have been reporting on every aspect of the design industry - breaking news, uncovering the big stories and showcasing the best new international work. |
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Title of the Company: The Golden Section
Web: www.goldennumber.net
This site is about the Golden Section, Ratio, Mean, and Proportion.
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Title of the Company: Interiors Library
Web: www.theinteriorlibrary.net
The recently opened Interiors Library is a veritable one-stop shop for textiles, wallpapers, blinds and carpet samples from the top fabric design houses. The showroom is the brainchild of interior designer Lucinda Batt, you brings her experience to the tricky business of pulling a room scheme together. |
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Title of the Company: ISdesignnet
Web: www.isdesignet.com
Search function directory and resources for interior products, suppliers and services. An online site for the “Interiors and Sources” magazine with current, back issues and a sustainable design category. |
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Title of the Company: Lighting Research Centre
Web: www.lrc.rpi.edu
Search function in the online library for research topics. |
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Title of the Company: The Phi calculator
Web: www.thismanslife.co.uk
Work out your proportions with this free handy calculator. |
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Title of the Company: RIBA Bookshops
Web: www.ribabookshops.com
Owned by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), is the leading supplier of a wide range of books and construction contracts/forms to the architecture, construction and design industries. |
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Title of the Company: Visual Arts Data Service
Web: www.ahds.ac.uk
A broad collection of slides searchable after free registration. |
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Web: www.theinteriorsassociation.ie
The Interiors Association is a multi-faceted support, networking & educational association for professionals working in the Interior, Architectural and Design Community in Ireland. |
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Web::www.twitter.com
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a "social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length", as defined by Wikipedia.
In other words, it's a site that people use to share what they are doing with their friends in 140 characters at a time (the length of a cell phone text message). But it has grown to also be a great resource for finding and sharing news and conversing with people, so it's a fun site to be a part of. |
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Web:: www.treehugger.com
TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. |
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Title of the Company:OpenOffice
Web:www.openoffice.org
Free software which can be used to create documents in the same way as Microsoft Word etc. |
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Title of the Company:
Web: www.blender.org
This is software which allows designers to create 3D models of interiors etc. |
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Title of the Company:
Web: www.gimp.org
Free software similar to Photoshop |
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Interactive Websites
Title of the Company: Ikea
Web: www.ikea.com
IKEA have come up with a user friendly tool to space plan your room. |
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Title of the Company: Dulux
Web: www.dulux.co.uk
Using this interactive tool to create room schemes. |
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Title of the Company: Sketchup
Web: sketchup.google.com
Download the free version of a CAD tool to create simple 3D drawings and models. |
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Title of the Company: Webexhibits
Web: www.webexhibits.org
A great interactive tool for showing the effects of simultaneous contrast.
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Virtual Museums and Resourced Websites
Title of the Company: Art and Culture - Interior Design
Web: www.artandculture.com
A list of designers, the movements they were associated with and further weblinks.
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Title of the Company: Arts and Crafts Movement
Web: www.anc.gray-cells.com
Under the movement category is a list of designers and their influence on the style.
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Title of the Company: Brittanica.com - Interior Design
Web: www.Britanica.com
A good overview of interior design, covering principles, components, styles, and historical and cultural expressions.
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Title of the Company: Collectics
Web: www.collectics.com
A virtual museum over the following periods: Art Deco, Art Nouveau 1950s and 1960s. |
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Title of the Company: Cumberland and Woodcraft Co.
Web: www.cumberlandwoodcraft.com
Victorian and country home interior decoration and design. |
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Title of the Company: Dansk Mobelkunst
Web: www.dmk.dk
A virtual gallery of designers of Scandinavian and Danish furniture and designers during the era 1920-1975. |
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Title of the Company: Design70
Web: www.design70.com
1970s furniture, lighting and accessories. |
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Title of the Company: Design Addict
Web: www.designaddict.com
Post modern and contemporary visual and written design directory of designers, manufacturers, furniture, lighting, interior products and materials. |
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Title of the Company: Designandfun
Web: www.designandfun.com
An online gallery of 1950s to 1970s interior products; furniture, lighting, textiles, designers and weblinks. |
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Title of the Company: Fiftie Fiftie
Web: www.fiftie-fiftie.be
Modern design, furniture and decorative arts.An online gallery |
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Title of the Company: Kentshire Gallery
Web: www.kentshire.com
17th – 19th century resource for English furniture and interior products. |
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Title of the Company: Quondam
Web: www.quondam.com
Quondam is an online virtual museum of architecture |
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Title of the Company: Tapestries
Web: www.io.com
A historical online resource for tapestries and wall hangings. |
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