Johanne Woodcock’s practice includes interior design, architecture and fine arts. Her current design work in White Box/Black Box design is focused on ‘Meaningful Ornament’. This work explores opportunities for shaping space with color and ornament. What is the potential of ornament today? What is meaningful ornament?

White Box Black Box Design

White Box Black Box Design is the focus of my creative practice in interior design. My goals for this work are to develop strategies for the use of color and ornament in interior environments.

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Meaningful Ornament

Within ‘White Box Black Box Design’ is my focus on ‘Meaningful Ornament’, which asks the question ‘What is the potential of ornament today? What is meaningful ornament?

Technology gives us access to information today, unprecedented in quantity of material and speed. While information can be quickly accessed, it can also be quickly discarded or thought of as superseded. 

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InsideInside.org: Curated Online Archive of Interior Environments and Related Fields

The goal of the INSIDE INSIDE website (insideinside.org) is to organize a resource platform for the study of interior spaces. We are committed to the notion that interiors deserve critical study; inclusive of all elements that together create habitable space. This site aims to support a deeper appreciation of how we compose the spaces where we live and work.

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How We Live In and Create Interiors

How we live in and Create Interiors, describes my process; observations that illustrate what catches my eye, what endures for greater consideration and what clarifies what I want to pursue as a designer.

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