I can highly recommend the ‘Brit Insurance Designs of the Year’ exhibition currently on display at the Design Museum on London’s South Bank.

It’s presented as a very broad canvas of design disciplines, and as such it is able to paint with broad strokes the current design trends that inform each disparate ‘category’ and enable the viewer to appreciate the exhibition as a whole. Click here for the list of official winners; however, if you would like to know my personal two winners from each category then please read on (photos of which can be seen by clicking here):

Transport 1. Barclays

I was walking past Heal’s this morning, and according to their window display it would seem that the on-trend interiors colours for spring 2011 are teal, turquoise and aquamarine. To see a photograph of Heal’s nicely judged window click here.

This colour trend would appear to be borne out by the forecast published by Global Colour Research, for a snapshot of this season’s colours click here. They are usually on-the-money for seasonal colour trends, so for your regular updates follow them on Twitter @MixPublications

Whilst I remember, here’s another date for your design diary, running

It's very easy to feel intimidated about a 3d computer modelling programme, as most people would think them way too complicated to use - it's no wonder after seeing the spectacular computer generated effects 3d modelling programmes can produce for modern movies - and whilst I'm not promising photo real visuals on a par with the latest cinematic blockbuster, I am promising a piece of software that will, at the very least, help you to visualise your latest design concepts.

Sketchup started out as an architectural tool, but since then it has been acquired by Google and they have actively

Welcome to my first post on the UKAL blog. I’m an interior designer by profession, so I hope to offer you some insight into my commercial interiors world, as well as design and architecture in general.

There’s a glut of interior design and architecture exhibitions in the spring (wishful thinking, I know), only a few weeks ago I attended The Surface Design Show, and tomorrow I will be visiting for the first time Ecobuild at London’s Excel  – I shall let you know how it fairs, as the show looks fairly promising as a resource for residential interior designers.

Coming up in the next month