Mike Lau
Interior Designer
Design Consultant
CAD Technician
University Projects/Work Projects
Here you will find my design work in university for the past 4 years, which consists of Hand Drawings, CAD Drawings, Model Making and Presentation Boards. It also includes professional completed projects and projects I am currently working on in the Residential, Commercial, Educational and Retail Sectors.
Year 0 Model
Collecting un-used items and junk around Canterbury and making them into a design focusing on one of the environmental impact that affect the world and us.​
Year 0 Drawings
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Mainly focusing on line drawings and creating images that uses both your right side and left side of your brain to complete the image. For example you only need to draw an outline of a table or shelf enough for your right side of the brain to process the information and the left side of your brain to complete the image of a table.​
Year 1 Models
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Draw, Design and make prototypes of models you designed. In this year I focused on designing with patterns and repitition. No matter what the site or project is there is always a way to break down your ideas and design into simple tesselation of objects. Starting simple, then finishing of with a grand design.
Year 1 Drawings
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Starting off with the basics of sketching out plans,sections and elevations by hand and using a drawing board to draw it up technically with out using the use of CAD program on PC.
Year 2 Collages
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After watching the movie Inception I started trying things with a design within a design. So I started with collages then slowly applying these collages onto a 3D surface which I design to be a building of some sorts. After a while I thought of projecting these collages through a 3D object.
Year 2 Photoshop
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After doing physical models I decided to take some of the images I taken into photoshop and created different layers with them to create a story with the images I used. While this was a matter of trial and error I noticed using 3 images had the better result then using less or more.
Year 2 3D Modelling
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As much as I enjoyed making models I wanted to try creating 3D Models using a 3D program. So i focus the use of Maya and AutoCAD to help me design and build these 3D ideas.
Year 3 3D Modelling
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After doing abit of 3D modelling in my 2nd year I decided to carry on with it trying to refine myself with the program.
Year 3 Modelling
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After doing abit of 3D modelling in my 2nd year I decided to carry on with it trying to refine myself with the program.
Year 3 Work​
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On my last year it only consisted of one major project, but this project was indept and challenging. I had to create well made models, a set of technical drawings with texture in them as well as inhabitating it. Also a concept that works well with the clients I have chosen to base this project on. The site was already given to me which was 36 Queen Street in the City of London. What I had to do was write a brief, come up with a concept and design elements. Then create a set of tender drawings to put the project together.
YIDA Competition Boards
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The layouts of the boards are done in Indesign. The layout and the information on the boards about my concept got me into the top 12 selected nationally for the competition and finally in 3rd place at the award cermony.
Junior Interior Designer Direct Supplies Ltd Projects Queen's Garden Padington Loft
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Bathroom Design using Catara Oro Marble and Ash Oak engineered flooring as well as ToTo basin + Tap, Hansgrohe bath taps and hand shower, Grohe flush plate and Sanuex toilet. The whole design revolves around the use of using mitres which hides the joinery of the marble pieces. This job requires templating the bath panels, shower panels and the vanity units making sure everything is cut accordingly and having the marble vains flow through.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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A joinery company dealing with all sorts of timber. First project I took upon was the Breakroom Area for the company open day. This project consists of a kitchen design having wall mounted storage units and base units. Carcases made up of MFC and door and end panels made up of birch ply allowing the grain texture to be shown on the edge. The wall mounted units are lacquered finish in Ral 9010 10% sheen. Base unit and skirting are laminated. Corian worktop is placed upon the finished base unit with painted glass splash backs.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Working on Henrietta Barnett School. I had to discuss with my production manager on this project on what furnishing we are building and how we would fix them together. Everything was cam and dowel fixed as this was the easiest and quickest way to put together these desks and worktops. Alot of the fixings are hidden. After deciding on what we are doing and how we are doing it, I had to draw up a cutting list and a CnC drawing for my colleagues to start building. Here are the results.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Working on Cambridge Park project. I had to re-draw and re-design a bespoke Lectern to make it physically work without endangering the users who would stand on this.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Working on CJ O'Shea project. I had to draw and put together how a roof top bench would be fixed together making sure its sturdy with mechanical fixings rather then doweled and glued together.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Assisting with Brown & Carroll projects. I had to go through the drawings understanding the designs from the clients and how they are fit together. Once I got the grasp of the project I produce cutting lists for our production team to work on and get the designs built.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Working with Demco to produce a library book case display to suit the client need and design. Redrawing the design from scratch, thinking how I would make it and keep the design similar to what the client want leaving minimum fixings shown.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Sea Container House is the first big project that I assisted on with my colleagues in designing and making.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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A big mass produce project for Instore Vision. We only had a couple of days to sort out the designs making sure it all worked, sourcing all the materials to builded the products making sure we hit the short lead time for this project. The tricky part was to make sure their metal work fitted into our joinery.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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FG Library is a project where I am project managing from start to finish. Drawing up the designs to the clients need, once they are happy with the design and approved I prepare a cutting list and CnC drawings to our production team for manufacturing.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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A mass produce project I worked on for SDI on Marks & Spencer making 2 different type of Gift Card Stands. This project was quite straight forward, go over the designs making sure it works and adjust any minor details accordingly. Then setting out the CnC panels and cutting lists for production team to manfacture.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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I work on a Residential project at Headstone Lane. We took surveys of the house and the opening sizes of the door and stairwell, which gave me a dimension to work my designs too making sure we could get the wardrobes, storage cupboards and library shelving in. The newly refurbish house looks very nice in the end.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Assisting the project manager with Facebook project where we designed, manufactured and fitted Teapoints, Storage Cupboards, Bin Units and Desks.
Junior CAD Technician Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Assisting the project manager with Bird & Bird a commercial fit out project where we designed, manufactured and fitted Teapoints, Storage Cupboards, Bin Units, Desks, Booth Seating, Copy Points, Coat Cupboards, Reception Desk, Information Pods and Wall Panellings.
CAD Technician
Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Working on Demco latest Promo Boreal Shelving Prototypes before a roll out. My Client loves the new design, only a few minor tweaks to the design before a full roll out for the Educational Market in 2017.
CAD Technician
Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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​​Working on Pexhurst reception desk designing the former made from mdf, which is cladded in Corian, Glass and Linoleum.
CAD Technician
Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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​​Assisting in a medium size office fit out project with my projects director for Como/Mace Group at Reading Forbury Place. Going through clients drawings desigining what they want to work, through 2d autocad detail drawings, setting out plans for site fitters to fit joinery in certain locations and managing O&M manuals.
CAD Technician
Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Working on Cambridge University Press Reception Desk, we quoted for replacing the out dated Reception Desk to a modernized Reception Desk. I had to design the Reception Desk in 5 sections due to the size and allowing our site fitter to carry each section up the library stair case, it also need to fit around an existing collumn.
CAD Technician
Chilfen Joinery Ltd
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Working on the Havas project me and my colleagues took on multiple joinery items through out the building,10 Floors in total. I myself worked on the Quiet Booths, AV Walls, Mezzanine Bar and the Shower Rooms. This project has been one of the toughest so far as finishing details were not conveyed to all contractors and trying to finish each part of the building as fast as possible meant laising with other contractors were missed.
Designer
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Refurbishing a residential house and a garage conversion. I had to liase with my contractors to get everything sorted and done on time. To get what I envisioned in my head and drawings to reality.