Interior designers take note: A larger-than-life Tiger Woods wall decal from Fathead

The Tiger Woods fist pump as a design element probably has never occurred to certified interior designers, but that was before this: The larger-than-life Tiger Woods Fathead wall decal.

Fathead announced recently that it had secured licensing rights to produce these vinyl wall decals for Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky. Put them all up together and you’d have a veritable wall of fame.

“We’ve had this extraordinary deal in our sights for quite a while,” Patrick McInnis, Chief Executive Officer of Fathead, told Forbes. “The demand Fathead has received for these iconic athletes is unprecedented.”

The Tiger Woods fist pump decal (shown above) measures six feet, four inches, or three inches taller than Woods himself. It’s available for $100. There are several other Woods’ decals, including those of variable sizes, one of which is what Fathead calls a Big Head (shown here). There are also Woods’ wall murals and a high-definition stand out.

Fathead previously has offered wall decals of Ian Poulter and John Daly, as well as wall murals of various golf holes.

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Madras Institute of Fashion Technology (MFT) is inviting applications for the following programmes.

Madras Institute of Fashion Technology (MFT) is inviting applications for the following programmes:

B.Sc. (fashion design) and B.Sc. (interior design) in collaboration with Alagappa University (Karaikudi).

The candidates who have completed H.Sc. or a three-year diploma or equivalent can join in the first year. Those who have completed a three-year diploma in textiles technology or equivalent can directly join the second year for the fashion design under the lateral entry scheme.

M.Sc (costume and fashion design) in collaboration with Bharathiar University.

MBA (apparel management) in collaboration with University of Madras.

The institute is also offering one-year diploma programmes in fashion design and interior design on full/part time basis. Application forms and prospectus can be obtained from The Admission Officer, Madras Institute of Fashion Technology, #16A, Shastri Nagar, 100 Feet Road (Next to Hotel Ambica Empire), Vadapalani, Chennai 600026. For details, visit www.mftindia.com. Email: po@mftindia.com.

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10 QUESTIONS WITH... RAFAEL DE CÁRDENAS

The designer curated auction is starting to be a thing. Note the recent "style sale" by Adam Blackman and David Cruz of Blackman Cruz at Wright, unique in its thoughtful mix of design styles, eras, and materials and blatant disregard for any theme related to era or estate. Now, Rafael de Cárdenas, founder of design firm Rafael de Cárdenas / Architecture at Large, has launched "Rafael de Cárdenas: Through Thick and Thin," a Paddle8 online sale of dozens of works from de Cárdenas’s own collection combined with items by the likes of Philippe Starck, Ettore Sottsass, Enzo Mari, Paul Rudolph, Hans Agne Jakobsson, Ico Parisi, and Shiro Kuramata—all of whom have featured in de Cárdenas’s interiors. Punches of bold colors, geometric forms, and black-and-white contrasts stand out, while the title "Through Thick and Thin" references de Cárdenas’s contrast of fragile and dense proportions and materials. Bidding will be available at Paddle8.com from May 12 to May 26.

Here, the New York-based designer tells us why he's inspired by youth culture and why he'll never forget the Philippe Starck juicer for Alessi.   

Interior Design: How did the auction with Paddle8 come about?

Rafael de Cárdenas: Through a causal conversation with Alexander Gilkes, one of the founding partners of Paddle8. We share a unique view on collecting.

ID: What are you hoping that people will take away from viewing the auction?

RDC: Well, it’s a unique collection and a fingerprint of an exciting but beguiling moment in design history. I think it’s interesting to see the exuberance of postmodern form as compared to the clarity and skeletal nudity of the modern, and this collection very much highlights that compositional tension.

ID: What has been your intention as a designer from the outset of your career?

RDC: That's an intense question, but the short answer is that I’ve always been interested in creating atmospheres, and raising or lowering the volume of mood in space.

ID: What are some of the projects currently on your plate that are challenging and/or inspiring? 

RDC: It’s equally challenging and inspiring to do something new, and recently our studio has been taking on digital video and film projects. We just created a conceptual film based in part on our design for Delfina Delettrez’s London store, and at the moment are working on a music video.

In Europe we are working on two exciting, but very different residential projects. One is a ground-up pool house in the English countryside; the other is an extremely contemporary insertion to an otherwise Hausmannian hôtel particulier in Paris. Commercially, I am happy to be working on several projects here in New York. We’re doing the first US flagship for a very design aggressive Asian eyewear brand, as well as a private showroom and exclusive fitness studio for Nike, both in Soho.

ID: What are the shared traits of your staff members, and what do you consider indispensible when it comes to the people you collaborate with?

RDC: My team is the most exciting group of young people that have arrived to architecture and deign through circuitous paths like myself. They come from varied backgrounds and have very active interests in other creative endeavors, so each person really brings a unique point of view to the studio as whole. And of course they all have very good, but more importantly, very precise and exacting taste.

ID: What’s been the biggest surprise for you about “making it” as a designer? Words of wisdom for young designers?

RDC: Well, I haven’t “made it” and would be suspect of anyone who thinks they have. Insecurity and adversity breed innovation. Words of wisdom for young designers: question everything. 

ID: What’s the last design item that you bought for yourself?

RDC: A pair of all black Nike Air Huaraches. A shaker box. 

ID: What is your earliest memory of design?

RDC: It’s hard to say. Aside from my mother’s clothes and going with her to the furniture floor at Bloomingdales, I’d have to say the Philippe Starck juicer for Alessi. The juicer stands out in my memory because it’s design marked an acute turning point in how I thought about objects; that everyday things can also be unique and clever. 

ID: What is your own living space like?

RDC: A testing ground of personal ideas, many of them failed.

ID: What—and where—excites you?

RDC: Youth culture. It’s a struggle and a joy to keep up with it. And I love LA, as boring as that is to hear. 

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john norman discusses the acura NSX interior design

interior designer john norman talks about the development, expectations, and influences of the 2015 acura NSX

every since high school, john norman was determined to be a car designer for the rest of his life. with that spirit, he works at acura and heads the interior layout of the second generation supercar hybrid ’NSX’, which was introduced at the 2015 north american international auto show. he graduate from college for creative studies in detroit and has worked on many luxury cars for acura. with the japanese mid engined classic, john and michelle christensen had to find a balance between the iconic race car persona and the established luxury needs that the automotive brand is known for. designboom caught up with him to discuss his background, inspirations and the challenges in designing the ’NSX’ model. 

design boom (DB): what originally made you want to become a designer? 

john norman (JN): as a child i thought cars were incredibly cool. i loved the way they looked, how they felt and even how they smelled. i also loved to draw and made elaborate models of helicopters and boats of my own design out of legos. my parents never bought me the fancy lego kits they have today! i started drawing cars for fun around the sixth grade. sketching regular cars was boring so i started to draw my own designs. that was more fun. i didn’t know car design was a potential career until i was in high school and automobile magazine ran an article about the college for creative studies (CCS) in detroit. it included photos of car design sketches and models. i was blown away and decided right then that car design was what i wanted to do with my life.

DB: who / what has been the biggest influence on your work to date? 

JN: the first influence is other car designers that came before me. there has been so much great car design done over the last 100 years. we are all in their debt. old ferrari’s are very pretty. late 20’s and 30’s american cars are so beautiful and grand. a second influence would be movie design. the vehicle designs in star wars were a tremendous influence on me. watching those movies is when i first started to become aware that the world could be designed. the final influence would be nature and animals. what i do as a designer is only a crude imitation of the exquisite beauty of plants and animals found in the world. in particular i love sea life. the monterey bay aquarium is one of my favorite places in the world. the shapes, colors, patterns and extraordinary appearance of sea animals are almost unbelievable. i’ve spent hours there wandering around in wonder and amazement. 

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DB: what was your first car and what was your dream car when growing up? 

JN: my first real car was a 1983 volkswagen scirocco. it was black on black with a five speed manual and i just loved it. i bought it for $800 with money i made working at the grocery store in the summer. it was always breaking and i loved working on it with a good friend. i would drive it from boston to detroit a few times a year during college. eventually the brutal detroit winters took their toll and it started looking rough. so I took off the bumpers and convinced some of my classmates at CCS to help me “paint” the car. we took leftover car paint we had from model making and went out behind the school at night to paint the car. the idea was that i would drive by and my classmates would throw paint on the car creating a bootleg jackson pollack effect. we were making a terrible mess when the cops showed up. they didn’t care about the street vandalism but instead advised we acquire firearms for our own personal safety. the car looked punk rock when it was finished and drew very different reactions. the normal people hated it, the skate punk kids thought it was rad!

Source: http://www.designboom.com/technology/interior-designer-john-norman-acura-nsx-05-12-2015/

Unfinished work costs interior designer Rs 1.17L

CHANDIGARH: 

 The district consumer disputes redressal forum has directed a Sector 21-based interior designer to pay around Rs 1.17 lakh to two city residents for not completing the work at their house within the deadline.

Dr Inderpal Singh Sidhu and his son Manpreet Sidhu accused Amar Partap Singh Sidhu, proprietor of WE Design Interior Contractors and Designers House, Sector 21, of not finishing the renovation work of one of their rooms in the house in four weeks despite taking money.

According to the agreement, the work was to be completed in 28 days and payment made in four installments. The first payment was made and work commenced on December 8, 2013. It was to be completed by January 8, 2014. However, even after making most of the payment in three installments, the work was incomplete.

The complainants alleged the designer harassed them for making the third installment and assured completion of work by January 15, 2014. "The designer then discontinued the work, disappeared and even stopped answering phone calls. Despite having received Rs 1.34 lakh out of the total of Rs1.73 lakh, the designer failed to complete the work," the complaint stated.

The counsel for the designer urged the complainants had not approached this forum with clean hands and were making contradictory statements. He said the case was beyond the purview of the consumer fora. He argued Sidhu illegally seized instruments and ousted the workers of the designer from the site. He even claimed Manpreet Sidhu during the renovation work went abroad and defaulted in making the payment.

The forum, however, questioned why the designer did not lodge any report with the police or sent any legal notice to the complainants.

The complainants also produced copy of comments uploaded on January 2 on a website by one Sunita Ghosh claiming that "We Design" was not competent and unprofessional.

Finding merit in the complaint, the forum directed Amar Partap Singh Sidhu to refund Rs 67,000 along with interest at the rate of 9% per annum from January 15, 2014, till actual realization, pay Rs 40,000 as compensation for deficiency in service, harassment and mental agony and Rs 10,000 as litigation expenses.

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