Interior Design Guide

Interior design
This guide to interior design will help you use graphic products to make inside spaces attractive to look at and pleasant to use. You can use the following questions to find out what is required.

How many people will use the space?
In the design of any interior, there needs to be a balance between the amount of decoration and the amount of information on view. In a single person’s study bedroom, it is likely that any graphic products will be used for decoration rather than information. In a large railway station, however, the display of information through graphic products becomes very important, although there will be some decorative features.

For a single person or a small group, the graphic products can be designed to have individual appeal. They can relate quite specifically to the users as individuals – a block printing of the silhouettes of family members for a home dining room, for example. The graphic products for room, for example. The graphic products for decorating places used by large groups or crowds need to have more universal appeal.

Is it a private place or a public space?
Private places, such as rooms at home or small offices, have to meet the needs of only a few individuals. Public places, on the other hand, have to meet the needs of a wide range of people, even though at any one time they might only be used by a few people or even a single person. The one- person toilet kiosks in some city centres is an example of this.

Many designers argue that the best way to prevent vandalism in such places is to make them
attractive and pleasant to use as well as almost indestructible.

What sort of people will use the space?
The style of both the information and decoration provided by means of graphic products will vary according to the sort of people who use the space. Users could mainly come from one age group with perhaps one or two of a different age group acting as assistants or adult helpers, as in the case of a playgroup or primary school. Alternatively, the users might be a widely mixed groups, as in the case of a department store.

What is the space used for?
The sorts of graphic products required by a space will depend on the detailed use of the space. A hostel and a bedroom are both used for sleeping, but they have very different graphic product requirements. Appropriate graphic products will help to make the space suitable for the detail of its use.

Here are some more contrasting examples:

• sleeping – bedroom or hostel;
• studying – study bedroom or library;
• socializing – family living room or local club;
• dining – small restaurant or a fast food outlet;
• exhibiting – motoring organization booth or museum;
• medical care – doctor’s waiting room or hospital ward;
• selling goods or services – clothes boutique or bank.

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