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the course at qut interior design is stronglyrelated to industry. our students are involved in real projectsfor real clients and deal with real issues. one of our major aims is to ensure that theknowledge that is produced doesn’t just stay on the shelf in the library, but in actualfact goes out and impacts on everyday interior design practice. we came together as a group of six. we worked with how we could potentially makethis clothes peg into a furniture piece. so we looked at taking a different take onit and up scaling it to activate spaces, such as laneways, that attach onto bollards andlight poles.

once they’re clamped on they act as benchesor as seats so you can sit down and also have a drink off one. that took us through stages of sketching,designing, testing, re-designing, developing that design and ultimately being taught skillsthat got us to a final product. we had to just use all our different processesto create this form. so, welding, bending, grinding, cutting, itwas all a process that came together for this final product. so firstly we won a brisbane laneway award,which then followed through to the queensland furniture awards, where we also won.

that then took us to melbourne, where we alsowon the australian furniture of the year awards for the student category. my name is angela layton and i studied atqut graduating with an interior design degree. for the last eight years i’ve been an associatewith an architectural practice in brisbane called arkhefield architects. we designed and built this development, riverkey at southbank, as well as the fit out here at stokehouse. clearly without having studied interior designi wouldn’t be able to practice as an interior designer, but beyond that i think that ittaught me from the very beginning how to think

differently and how to re-interpret viewingthe world and looking at the world and how we can actually alter the spaces that we inhabit. qut really offers a hands-on course that reallyprepares you for the future and working with industry professionals. you’ve got to take something from a sketchdesign, from an idea in our head, to something that is actually pretty much marketable now. we’re out there talking to clients, talkingto producers, talking to manufacturers, people that actually want what we’ve got. and qut has enabled us to do this.

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