ANGUS WILLIAMSON
Interior Design Portfolio
- 2023
2020
CONTENTS PAGE
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Cover Letter
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Resume
SELECTED WORKS
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The Boundaries of Place
.5-6
Wonder Waste
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Three Piece Chair
.9-10
Cairo Flats Furniture
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Gallery of the Sublime
COVER LETTER
Greetings
I am interested in the opportunity of a graduate position my selected works touch on project’s of civic, residential, commercial and furniture design. This is led by a curatorial process of investigating spatial relations through observations and analysis that weaves occupants within the interiority of place.
Previously I was selected for internships at Foolscap Studio and Studio Paule offering experience at a moderate size and small scale practices. My placement at Foolscap Studio challenged me to match the fast paced environment by developing independent objectives each day. During this time I produced a piece for Foolscap Studio which was exhibited in Melbourne Design week 2023. In this placement I gained confidence with communications as I frequently liaised with suppliers organising the overcrowded material library. This was further improved at Studio Paul, a small team of three where the collaborative exchange of ideas was essential in design problem solving. As someone enthusiastic for conversation I could pleasantly contribute to design discussion supporting the progress of ideas.
At Studio Paule I was introduced to Adobe Illustrator where my fluency of the Adobe suite allowed me to quickly pick up the program. Personally I am interested in photography, a practice that led me to learn Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. I utilise observations of photography to digitally translate impressions of sites that directly inform a design response. My graphic software flexibility is complemented by my Rhino and Revit experience allowing me to communicate ideas across the entire design process.
I hope this paints a image of who I am and I appreciate you reading this. I hope to hear from you soon and I am happy to chat!
Thanks Angus
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RESUME
ANGUS WILLIAMSON
EMAIL williamsonangus34@gmail.com
PROFILE
PHONE
0492885001
I am a 2023 graduate from an RMIT Bachelors of Interior Design Honours and plan on returning to study a Bachelors of Architectural Design. I am an ambitious person who is happy to confront challenges and work together in a team to reach shared goals. My work often investigates the role of design in place making and connecting occupants to a situational context. With a strong set of skills and experience I am extremely capable of working at all points of a design project.
EDUCATION
RMIT Bachelor of Interior Design 2020 - Completed 2023
SKILLS
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Indesign
• Revit
• Rhino
ATTRIBUTES
• Collaborative
• Lateral Thinking
• Public Speaking
• Leadership
• Creative problem solving
Emmaus College VCE
Completed 2019
WORK EXPERIENCE
Studio Paule Placement - 2023
Working in a small team during schematic design for an office interior fit out. This involved collaboratively resolving the design concept in response to prevailing site complications.
Foolscap Studio Placement - 2023
Rearranging the material library coordinating with suppliers to collect outdated samples. Additionally producing a vibrant table cloth designed from waste paper that was exhibited during Melbourne Design Week 2023.
Good Boy Billy’s - 2021 - Current
All round barista role involving listening to customers orders while ensuring maximum quality and speed. Often leads the closing shift organising food production and fresh condition of shop for the next day.
VOLUNTEERING
RMIT Student Staff Consultative Committee - 2022
Represent the class and present feedback on our experience throughout the semester. Engage with representatives from all year levels and RMIT lectures.
RMIT Student Interior Design Association - 2022
Organise, curate and set up the end of year interior design student exhibition working in close collaboration with students from various year levels. Discuss and plan exhibition layouts and necessary technology or equipment.
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PROJECT : THE BOUNDARIES OF PLACE
INTERIOR DESIGN HONORS RESEARCH PROJECT
TYPE : Shelter
ROLE : Student Interior Designer
PROCESS : Rhino, Adobe Photoshop
Key Ideas : Urban Interior, Boundary, Framing
Situated on the edge Sunburys urban sprawl along the remnant woodlands of Jackson Creek are three light interventions that offer access into the undulating terrain. Within this site the project proposes a lookout, bike shelter and bridge that in union are composed to emphasize the sightlines of place. By walking site the experience is an opportunity to interpret the country and waterways where moments of introspection can reveal a context to place. The framing of perforated steel is derived from the construction of housing estates where opaque material skins separate interior from exterior. The application of perforated steel blurs this material boundary between landscape and intervention. Additionally the interventions follow the physical boundaries of site highlighting these conditions and embracing them through movement.
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The perforated steel enclosure frames opposing perspectives through movement around the bend offering both site amenity and awareness to place.
Opposing southern view within the interior walls of the creeks valley where hillside shadows creep in during the late afternoons.
Northern view of the Jackson Creek known by traditional owners as biik wurrdha which flows towards a prominent escarpment.
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Exploring boundaries as a limit or point of difference the layering of perforated steel in the bike shed obscures sight through into the landscape.
Arriving to a spatial release an incision into the perforated steel composes a vista where the intervention frame expresses the boundaries limit.
Eastern sightline from bike shed directing towards the point where the Jackson Creek meets the confluence of the Maribyrnong river connecting scales of near and far.
PROJECT : WONDER WASTE
TYPE : Table Cloth
ROLE : Interior Designer Intern
PROCESS : Reclaimed Paper Composite
Key Ideas : Colour, Texture, Composition
Wonder Waste was a recycled paper project undertaken during my placement at Foolscap Studio which was exhibited during OpenTable Melbourne Design Week 2023. My role was in producing the piece where I collaborated with other interns exploring and resolving methods of recycling paper waste. The work intends to reveal sustainable design opportunities through the subtle composition and spatial relations of the colourful waste.
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Due to having limited blue paper we decided to place fragments treating it as a rarity.
Day to day we produced different waste composites where our mixing techniques evolved and this process is revealed in a vertical timeline.
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A set of utensils were cast from left over waste to adorn that table during the exhibition.
PROJECT : THREE PIECE CHAIR
TYPE : Chair
ROLE : Student Interior Designer
PROCESS : Woodworking, Reclaimed Materials
Key Ideas : Character, Craft, Collaboration
The Three Piece chair was a collaborative project that reassembled four scrap chairs within a four hour time frame. In an ad hoc fashion I discussed with peers to workshop an idea that acknowledges our material constraints. This translated into a curved form deriving from the bent timber chair which could create a strong visual identity.
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In the centre is my damaged rattan chair which is dysfunctional as a seat yet playful sits at the for efront telling a story of the resources available.
Sketching ideas together we determined there was an inherent circular theme that could transform the materials into something new.
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After disassembling our chairs to assess what was available we contemplated a strategy, we were very confused.
PROJECT : CAIRO FLATS FURNITURE
TYPE : Joinery
ROLE : Student Interior Designer
PROCESS : Revit, Adobe Photoshop
Key Ideas : Light, Boundary, Craft
This project is situated within Best Overends 1936 Modernist multi residential living Cairo Flats and it transforms the apartment for a contemporary lifestyle. The space is divided by a multifunctional countertop cabinet with concealed fold out bed and modular table. The spatial arrangement opens up the apartment to the northern window extending the sense of place beyond the interior.
As the apartment space is fairly limited I aimed to not compromise so the cabinet’s countertop can behave as a social space for friendly encounters.
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Cabinet section with concealed foldout bed providing the apartment with a multifunction living arrangement.
A soft gesture at the point of material joiner implies a spatial divide between the countertop and living space.
A paired back material pallet helps to maintain a sense of lightness leaving the space to feel less cluttered.
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The use of galvanised steel on the counter top reflects Modernism’s application of industrialised materials which is also evident in the flat’s concrete cantilevered staircase.
PROJECT : GALLERY OF THE SUBLIME
TYPE : Gallery
ROLE : Student Interior Designer
PROCESS : Revit, Adobe Photoshop
Key Ideas Scale, Sight, Negative Space
“In the modern era, the sublime took on new meaning, going into the territory of the infinite and the unknowable”
Philip Shaw, ‘Modernism and the Sublime’, The Art of the Sublime, Tate Research Publication, January 2013
Beginning from designing the gallery’s visual logo the design plays on moments of sight that develop a sense of anticipation for what is beyond the known. The gallery is divided by two exhibition pavilions where archways build a tension between the viewer and object that travels between a blurred space. By pairing the raw mass of bricks with the transparency of glass a negative space casts an overwhelming form directing audiences towards the interior gallery.
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The pavilions contrast in volume supports the gallery space program but also composes the smaller building drawing audiences deeper into site.
The brand logo presents an abstract form in a sublime manner as an undefined symbol that audiences will only associate their idea of the gallery.
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Separating the pavilion mass is an open volume that exposes audiences to the exterior elements as they travel between sites.
Second gallery space with title wall that divides points of entry and exhibition viewing.
Interior view of main exhibition space with window aperture at stairway allowing occupants to peer outside.
PHONE 0492885001 ANGUS WILLIAMSON EMAIL williamsonangus34@gmail.com