DesignInsider feature SpaceInvader in Studio Tour
We have been featured on DesignInsider kicking off their new Studio Tour series - a new series which gives insight into a selected design studio. Here are a few snippets from the article:
Our values are all about being client-first. There’s nothing clients can ask that’s too much. We achieve that by being very approachable, honest and friendly. We’re great listeners too, externally and internally and we love to nurture talent and let it shine. The best ideas always win, wherever they come from. We seek to combine being client-facing, cost-conscious and pragmatic with a boundary-pushing belief in design’s ability to interpret, improve and transform people’s lives.
AstraZeneca Middlewood was a very important project for us from our past portfolio, because it established us as specialist, end-user workplace designers. We really helped AstraZeneca move away from working in silos into new and more collaborative set-ups. The project embodies everything we do well – turning a well-researched workplace strategy brief into a creatively-executed interior.
Read the full article here.
From our hospitality portfolio, I’d choose the Qbic Hotel in Brussels. As with a current project for the new Tribe Hotel in Liverpool for Accor, we added some really interesting abstract design concept work, having been given the opportunity to deviate from an iron-clad set of rules. For Qbic, we took the brand ethos of sustainability and adaptive re-use and combined it with a design inspired by the cartooned walls of Brussels, which worked perfectly with the brand’s ‘Weird is Welcome’ positioning and the city’s fun nature.