As interior designers we often try to find that “hook” for a project, that one feature that can give life to the rest of the design, it can by anything from a theme to a ceiling or wall feature or to doing something quirky with a façade, although this is not always the case it Continue Reading

As we enter into a new year, it is hard not to be consumed with positive energy and a renewed vigor that always comes with this time in the calendar. Everyone is buzzing about what the next 12 months could hold in store for us, we too are not immune to this infectious energy as Continue Reading

As 2011 nears its end we thought what better way that to recap our top ten read posts of the year on the Studio EM Blog. We have had a tremendous amount of support in our first 6 months as a company from many friends, readers, clients and we want to thank you all as Continue Reading

Having just returned from a super relaxing break in the Nation’s Capital, Abu Dhabi, celebrating Christmas there was only ever going to be one topic on our mind for today’s blog entry, Spa Design. I am almost positive that minus sleeping and eating during the past few days that relaxing in the Steam Room, Jacuzzi’s Continue Reading

We may not be the biggest fans in the world of their coffee, but we can’t help but be fans of what Starbucks having been doing with their interior design and brand image over the last year or so. Be it the integration of Augmented Reality into their marketing campaigns, the use of QR codes Continue Reading

We want to wish each and everyone of you a wonderful and Happy Christmas and we hope that you all have a magical New Year. We don’t want to get too soppy, but it has been a fantastic first year for Studio EM and that has been down to all of our friends, clients (who Continue Reading

Apple are Apple, simple as that, and by that I mean we all know who Apple are, most people have heard of, seen or used their products at some point. We know the brand and we know what it is all about and we know all of this without having to be force fed it Continue Reading

It has been an interesting week at Studio EM headquarters, most of the week has been spent dishing out new proposals for new projects but the current theme of each of these proposals has been cost and how to reduce it. Perhaps purse strings are tightening as it is coming to the end of the Continue Reading

The Pop Up Restaurant, a relatively new phenomenon and trend within the architecture and design world, a trend that we both love and admire as customers and designers. We have covered a number of Pop Up concepts in our blog and a lot of them have involved using container architecture, something that is both sustainable Continue Reading