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		<title>Welcome to ID-Sphere: a note from the editor</title>
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Welcome to ID-Sphere, the contemporary interior design forum and sharing platform. 
Find below some highlights featuring recent articles, forum posts, useful resource additions, and a short note from the editor.




Editor&#8217;s Note



Editor: Lizzy Van Lysebeth
 
 



Due to an ever busier economy and time consuming lifestyle professionals find themselves often isolated within their own creative and social environment, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2009/02/highlights-and-editors-note/</link>
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		<title>ID / Lighting the interior of Adventure Bar &amp; Lounge at Covent Garden by Light Bureau</title>
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A new Covent Garden venue, the fourth in central London owned and operated by the growing cocktail chain &#8211; Adventure Bar &#38; Lounge. Light Bureau are please to have provided architectural lighting design to the 160msq subterranean basement bar in Bedford Street close to the piazza.
Working closely with interior designer, Sophie Hibberd, Light Bureau have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2011/04/id-lighting-the-interior-of-adventure-bar-lounge-at-covent-garden-by-light-bureau/</link>
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		<title>ID / Tron, a movie-inspired design show by Disney® and DuPont™ Corian®</title>
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Corian&#174; meets Disney&#174;
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April 2011 &#8211; Fantastic sculptures of iconic science-fiction motorcycles, surprising and eye-catching concepts of kitchen, bedroom, wellness, outdoor, home theatre areas and other environments inspired by the movie &#8220;TRON: Legacy&#8221;&#8230; the best of imagination, creativity, materials and technology &#8230; Disney&#174; and DuPont&#8482; Corian&#174; lead the ranking of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2011/04/id-tron-a-movie-inspired-design-show-by-disney%c2%ae-and-dupont%e2%84%a2-corian%c2%ae/</link>
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		<title>Competition / Reifenhauser Extrusioneers® Innovation Contest</title>
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On April 4, 2011, an open contest on the subject of plastics extrusion started by Reifenhauser under the motto &#8220;Thinking outside the box&#8220;. This Extrusioneers&#174; Innovation Contest&#8220; is mainly intended for students. Closing date 14th of May 2011.
On our web platform www.extrusioneers-innovation-contest.com  we are looking not only for the best ideas on products, processes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2011/04/reifenhauser-extrusioneers%c2%ae-innovation-contest/</link>
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		<title>Jobs / interior design Course Writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Course Writer is required to write an Interior Design at Level 3 (NQF).
Open Study College is a progressive distance learning provider of a wide range of subjects providing high quality and learner support resulting in a great deal of learner satisfaction. We require writers to write entire courses including assessment and marking schemes (if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2011/04/jobs-interior-design-course-writer/</link>
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		<title>Article / A New Era for Lighting: Lighting Design Post Bulb Ban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within 2 years of writing this article, the familiar shape of the light bulb as we know it will cease to be commercially available.
Designed by Thomas Edison (or Joseph Swann, depending on who you listen to), the incandescent light bulb works by running an electric current through a piece of resistive wire encapsulated within the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2011/02/article-a-new-era-for-lighting-lighting-design-post-bulb-ban/</link>
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		<title>Short note / 3form Europe launches Ditto™, an exciting new Modular Product</title>
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3form Europe launches Ditto&#8482;, an exciting new Modular Product that Offers Design Freedom with Opportunity to Create Playful, Organic, Structured Designs
Made with 40 Percent Pre-Consumer Recycled Content



This innovative product has the high design customization with the customary flexibility of 3form Varia Ecoresin material with low impact 40% pre-consumer recycled content.
  Ditto can be formed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2011/02/short-note-3form-europe-launches-ditto%e2%84%a2-an-exciting-new-modular-product/</link>
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		<title>ID / Light Bureau Complete Hotel Verta a von Essen Hotel</title>
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The recent launch of Hotel Verta, situated on the River Thames at Battersea, South London marks the end of 3 years of architectural lighting design input for consultants  Light Bureau..




Hotel Verta, part of the Metropolitan Set from von Essen hotels, is the only hotel in Europe adjoined to a heliport and offers a unique [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2011/02/id-light-bureau-complete-hotel-verta-a-von-essen-hotel/</link>
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		<title>Short note / Mansfield Monk office Design in Fleet Place London</title>
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This was send to us by Mansfiels Monk achitecture and design studio, a 28,000 sq ft office design and fit-out in Fleet Place London. A modern interior design was created for the consolidation and relocation of the recruitment/marketing communications company, Penna Barkers with TCS, the HR creative agency, to larger premises at 5 Fleet Place. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2011/02/short-note-mansfield-monk-office-design-in-fleet-place-london/</link>
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		<title>Short note / A renovation on a shoestring budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This project was send to us by David Smith, a graphic designer living in Brazil who under took a shoes string budget renovation.
Below a small descirption and some images of the results.


David Smith:
The house was purchased in July 2009. It was in serious need of renovation as the roof was badly leaking, water pipes had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2011/01/a-renovation-on-a-shoestring-budget/</link>
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		<title>ID / Light Bureau provide specialist lighting to KPMG’s building at Canary Wharf.</title>
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October 2010 marked the final migration for staff of international award winning accountancy firm KPMG to their new headquarters 15 Canada Square, London. The move marks the end of five years planning and development for KPMG and three years intensive work for the design team which includes London based architectural lighting consultants Light Bureau.

The £340m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/12/light-bureau-provide-specialist-lighting-to-kpmg%e2%80%99s-building-at-canary-wharf/</link>
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		<title>Info / A one week free workshop access with tutor for London businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an intensive 5 day workshop (December 13th till December 17th) based on support to help you realise and prototype new designs and concepts. Based in a comprehensive workshop you will have support from an experienced designer to help you plan and make your own prototypes. These practical workshop support weeks are made available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/11/a-one-week-free-workshop-access-with-tutor-for-london-businesses-2/</link>
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		<title>ID / A ‘Living Lab’: a new generation of pizzeria by PizzaExpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PizzaExpress is opening the doors to the first &#8216;new generation&#8217; pizzeria, which will roll out across the UK from next year. In one of the boldest moves in its 45-year history, the brand is redefining the restaurant experience for the 21st Century, focusing on design, acoustics, service and food. The aim is to create a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/11/a-%e2%80%98living-lab%e2%80%99-a-new-generation-of-pizzeria-by-pizzaexpress/</link>
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		<title>Info / RIBA Sustainability Hub: Online Portal for Sustainability Information</title>
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Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) launched an online Sustainability Hub, designed to be a one-stop portal for sustainability information for architects, students, and educators.
This web-based resource, which offers users a platform for learning and discussion, was developed by the Institute to engage the architectural community with sustainability as an inspiration for design, and to pitch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/10/riba-sustainability-hub-online-portal-for-sustainability-information/</link>
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		<title>Short note / Say Hello to WoJo™ &#8211; a revolutionary new sustainable textile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starbucks store interiors are being further enhanced by a revolutionary new textile made from natural and renewable raw materials. Created by The Formary, a New Zealand- based design company, using a unique, upcycling1 process, Starbucks coffee sacks are combined with wool resulting in a new sustainable textile called “WoJo”.
WoJo, from wool and jute, the material [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/10/say-hello-to-wojo%e2%84%a2-a-revolutionary-new-sustainable-textile/</link>
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		<title>Books / BIDA Interior Designers Job Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BIDA Interior Designers Job Book
Stephen Yakeley and Diana Yakeley (RIBA Publishing   Sept. 2010)
The Interior Designer’s Job Book is the first book to set out the professional standard for running an interior design project. It does so step by step, in a sequence designed to complement the construction industry’s standard Plan of Work, providing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/09/books-bida-interior-designers-job-book/</link>
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		<title>Info / Events and exhibition update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[21st &#8211; 23rd September 2010
BLUM UK Headquarters, Mandeville Drive, Kingston, MK10 0AW 
Kx v.10 is a unique three day kitchen component event showcasing the next generation of kitchen storage and accessory solutions from leading manufacturers and distributors.
Register online now at http://www.kxv10.co.uk
23-25 Sept 2010 
100% Design London has teamed up with the Interior Design Association to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/09/events-and-exhibition-update/</link>
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		<title>Short note / A compressed beech wood chair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A chair designed by Sandro Lopez for the Elit Collection by PIRCHER


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		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/06/a-compressed-beech-wood-chair/</link>
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		<title>ID / Smart-ologic by Karim Rashid for Corian Dupont in Milan 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The exploration of &#8220;Smart-ologic Corian&#174; Living&#8221;&#8211; an evocative home concept composed of garden, kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom &#8211; is an exciting journey, a plunge into a fascinating world of colours and shapes, a voyage in the discovery of the genius and solutions by Karim Rashid&#8217;s &#8220;smart design&#8221;.



&#8220;Smart-ologic Corian&#174; Living&#8221; Video, let Karim do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/05/smart-ologic-by-karim-rashid-for-corian-dupont-in-milan-2010/</link>
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		<title>Info / A one week free workshop access with tutor for London businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an intensive 5 day workshop (June 28th till July 2nd) based on support to help you realise and prototype new designs and concepts. Based in our comprehensive workshop you will have support from an experienced maker to help you plan and make your own prototypes. These practical workshop support weeks are made available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.id-sphere.com/2010/05/a-one-week-free-workshop-access-with-tutor-for-london-businesses/</link>
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