June 04, 2025

How to Warm Up Before You Start Drawing: Simple Exercises to Boost Your Creative Confidence

June 04, 2025/ Sonia Nicolson

Feeling stuck or unsure where to begin with your architectural sketches or urban drawings? Warming up before you start drawing is a simple but powerful way to loosen your hand, spark creativity, and build confidence. In this post, I’ll share 5 easy warm-up exercises that anyone, beginners and experienced artists, can use to get into the flow and overcome that intimidating blank page.

February 03, 2021

You Are Your Most Valuable Asset

February 03, 2021/ Sonia Nicolson

Self-employed or not, you are your most valuable asset. When you work for yourself, you are your own boss - perhaps the only employee so this is especially true. You might be feeling this, that the work just doesn’t get done unless you are working on it (or in it); creating the vision, planning out the ideas, moving the needle, and hustling. For this, and many other reasons, you’ve got to take care of your physical and mental health.

May 04, 2016

10 Reasons to Study Architecture and Build a Creative Career

May 04, 2016/ Sonia Nicolson

Thinking about studying architecture? This article explores ten compelling reasons to pursue a career in architecture, from creative freedom and global opportunities to shaping the spaces where people live and thrive. Written by an experienced architect and interior designer, it’s a must-read for aspiring students.