“The Zoo” by Suzy Lee has child-like drawings and bright colors that have been made into a new shape to suit two six year old girls while they grow up. The main idea in creating this concept is to make it fun, colorful, and open. To create this main idea, the elephant scene was chosen because it has a flowing circular shape pond that was made into random colorful lines that also represented the color pallet throughout the book. The openness of the zoo is also represented in the idea with room between the lines.
The bright Colors will be represented on one wall as wavy blue, purple, pink, green, red, orange, and yellow lines to make the room pop with color and reflect back to the original idea of bright curving lines to add color that is suitable for a six year old as well as a thirteen year old. The remaining walls will be a warm cream color accent the multitude of colors within the room. To create a study area for homework there are desks for each girl placed against the wall at the foot of each bed. Each desk has three drawers for storage. The decision on bed style was influenced by the bright colors in the book along with the smooth lines. Each bed has a pullout bed from underneath to accommodate a total of two guests for the girls. By adding bright colors on the walls and creating smooth lines and shapes the overall design shows the inspiration from the book “The Zoo” by Susy Lee.
By doing this design I learned that there are many aspects to a childs room that I wouldnt
necessarily think of by just walking into the space. Things like, do they have enough space for
their clothing, do they have adequate toy storage, and is the space large enough to be able
to accomodate more that just those who live in the room.
(The first two pictures are of the presentation boards. The third picture is of the concept model for the space and the last is a model of the room itself.)
The inspiration piece for this room was a painting of five elemental Chinese kanji’s. Kanji’s, especially the Chinese versions, are known for they’re simplicity and elegance. The Fire kanji has the simplest lines and shape to it which makes it desirable to the client who likes simplicity along with elegance.
To create the feeling of elegance while still keeping the clients ideas of simplicity and comfort in mind, lines were softened by curving them rather than having them straight and blunt. By creating a very close up view of the kanji the simplicity of the lines were able to be brought out even more.
To create a unique shaped peninsula in the kitchen that also had a raised bar top a piece of the Fire kanji was enlarged and rotated to create a variety of counter shapes, which also made the counter asymmetrical in relation to the rest of the kitchen. The bar top starts out wide at one end and then slowly curves back into the counter to create unity between the peninsula and the windows for the patio entrance. Using blue for the carpeting and in the tiled backsplash and orange and cream in the fabric all the colors the client desired were incorporated within the space. For the countertops granite was used to coincide with cherry wood cabinets and maple flooring. Orange and cream silk was used for fabrics within the space.
These materials and the overall design of the space give an overall feeling of simple but comfortable, with a touch of elegance.
The first three photos are those of my presentation boards that have some of my process work, light study photos, floor plans, elevations, a section, and a couple of renderings. The fourth image is of my concept model. While the last image is of the model of the house.
By doing a Kitchen Case Study it allowed me to see what works
well in kitchens as well as what doesn't work. In examining this kitchen there were four people total working together to find the advatages as well as the disadvangtages. The kitchen that we examined had a very well layed out floorplan. The triangle of major appliances was non-interupted by the flow of traffic and there was ample space to cook as well as plenty of counter space to prepare food on. The pictures that I have included are those of our overall findings, along with a perspective sketch that has been rendered to look like the kitchen, drafted sketches of the floorplan, a drafted elevation, and a cover for the floorplan that shows the flow of traffic though the space and where the major appliances are located at.
ranch, the bottom part of a tulip, the base of a tree, and a brick fan from a building. It was slightly easier than the first sketch because I had more practice in sketching at that point. However, it was still difficult. The detail in some of the objects was tricky. I know that I still need more practice sketching but I do feel that my sketches have already improved from what they were, to what they are now.
Italy is very well known for things such as the rich wines, famous art, the gourmet coffee beans and espresso, the canals that run through many parts of the country, and the shape of the country. These aspects are highlighted in this pattern.
The rich wine color is represented in the background color and texture. The shape of the country is taken and placed as symbols within the design, while the textures from the coffee beans are placed inside the boot shape of the country to create a texture rich composition that relates to the texture rich country of Italy. The sentence, “Ars longa, Vita Breva”, which means “art is long, life is short” is placed in the background to represent the curves of the canals, while it also stands for the art that Italy is known for.
The first image is the original pattern. The second image comes from the original image repeated several times to create a larger composition.
This process poster was created to show my thought process though my work. The top images are sketches of my starting ideas; starting with my nature object on the left, going to some ideas based on the bale of hay that was my nature object. Then going on to the start of my 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional designs. The colored image is the final image for the 2-dimensional design. The bottom images are the 
developmental work for the 3-dimensional design. I left a spot in the middle for a image of the final room model. The text on the right of the poster is my design concept for the project. The background I created in Photo shop for a nature type setting for my overall design. The second image is the completed poster with a photo of my concept model included.In my original business card (the top design) my logo was smaller and the text was sort of small but overall I didn't think it was to bad looking but it did feel like it was missing something because it felt as though it had to much blank space. After receiving some feedback from my peers and my Interior Design instructor I decided that I needed to change some things in the design. So, I went back and redid parts of it and ended up with the design on the bottom. I made the logo bigger, changed the quote from one of my own to one that is more inspirational by Patti Smith. I also did some editing on font sizes. I also added my weblog address that wasn't in the design before.
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My first logo (bottom image)I actually Iiked quite a bit but I found out that it didn't really work to well if I wanted to place it in other compositions, such as my business card. The overall composition I thought worked well, it was just to big. If I made it small enough to fit in a small design then it didn't look right, it was to small to read. If I wanted to make it larger then the quality of the image turned out really bad. So I went back and redid my logo so that it could be made smaller or larger and it would still look the same. My new logo (the image on top) is smaller overall but the quality of the image is higher so when I make it larger it doesn't become pixelated and it is still readable in a smaller size. I changed the style of the text along with the colors because I felt that they look 
better when they are larger or smaller. I changed the background color so that it would match the lettering color and I made more transparent so that it can be placed in another composition without the background standing out to much.
This was the original pattern that I had created but after completing it, I decided that I didn't like how it turned out. The black, white, and gray was to bleak, and it looked cold and even slightly harsh. So I went back and remade the image with a new combination of images and new colors in the design. The new image (the colorful one above) has more vibrance while still using textures within the composition. Although it is very bright the colors work together well to create an overall better design than the first quilt pattern.
