3. Interior Display
Martyn Tinto
Martyn Tinto is an Interior and Spatial Designer recently graduated from the MA Interior Design programme at the Royal College of Art where he specialised in the Display Platform. Originally from Scotland, Martyn started his education in Glasgow at The Glasgow School of Art where he achieved a First Class Honours Degree in Interior Design. Martyn exhibited at Free Range 2017 in London which started his journey to the RCA. Martyn continues to exhibit work in the public domain along with working on many live projects, competitions and collaborating with fellow RCA students. Recently, Martyn was a competition finalist and was featured in the publication of the “Thinking” series of non architecture competitions.
Currently based in London, Martyn has been exploring ideas of spatial narratives while studying Interior Design at the Royal College of Art. During first year Martyn wrote about his research into searching for utopia through the visual languages of cinematography in his dissertation. Martyn continued to develop these ideas in his thesis project in second year, where he developed his approach to design, creating a new design typology blurred between the ideas of an immersive experience and set design, subverting the traditional and pre-conceived ideas of what it means to “display” within the realm of design. Martyn created his own visual language referencing the architectural styles of post modernism, brutalism, science fiction, utopian and dystopian narratives to create his own hyper stylised environments to realise an intangible narrative. Martyn has also reflected on the current pandemic and drawn parallels with his work that take a strong guide from human behaviour to create spatial narratives. Looking at these ideas Martyn has taken inspiration for concept and design, but also developed representation methods as our physical spaces were rapidly changing into a digital landscape. Martyn explores digital methods over traditional physical art forms to capture the ideas of his thesis project, through rendering, video production and editing to convey spatial narratives.
1984 / THE TOTALITARIAN LENS
This project takes the narrative from George Orwell’s novel “1984” which explores the dangers of a totalitarian governing system. The novel portrays a perfect totalitarian society which monitors and controls every aspect of human life and behaviour through psychological manipulation, alteration of information and history, loyalty, surveillance and use of technology. For the government this is purely an exercise of power, they do not want to control the minds of people for some other purpose, but only to have total power and control over society.
Analysis of these themes along with the settings, symbols and motifs explored in the novel create scenes and view points of the narrative which are used to give a physicality to these ideas. Collating this analysis with research on visual languages of precedent set design manifested the creation of a new direction of spatial narrative, taking the form of a hyper stylised visual language. This has been used to design six environments that reference the themes and display the narrative of "1984". All six environments occupy the same area size and are contained within a grid structure that acts as a film studio, taking the directorial perspective from the lens of CCTV.
