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FIRST PROJECT EXPERIENCE

  The retail project was the first project I did this semester. It was most hard and challenging project. This project made me reconsider designing but when I saw the final outcome of the project I felt proud and want to do more projects. It also taught me what are the things that a designer should do and don’t. This was a roller coaster experiences for me with lot of ups and down.

  At the beginning of the project I had the problem of understanding the project. It was hard for me to understand the brief as it requires lot of researching. I was struggling in the research part. Where I was a bit lost and didn’t know where to start. I seek help from my class mates and note down a list of the point that I have to research. As I have to design a retail store for a very high brand. I had to start my project by researching about the history of the brand, the new trends, competition and etc. The brand I choose was Dior. It was a very high and luxurious brand. I had difficulty to come up with a concept for this brand. I have to think about the standard of the brand and how to come up with unique and abstract idea. So what I did was, I analyzed the latest clothing collections of Dior. From the I got many ideas but it was hard to combine the idea to brand because I have to keep the brand image and have an abstract theme. After lot of mind mapping and brainstorming. I finally came up with a concept.  

   My concept of the project was ‘femininity’. To represent femininity, I choose a flower, which is world’s most expensive flower. It was connecting the brand I choose.it was difficult to come up with a concept because I didn’t have that much time to do much research about the concept, so my concept was very weak. It was hard to come up with an Idea because I was having trouble from the beginning of the project. I kept on thinking that my project would be low and was thinking about others works. I thought I would make my development strong and I started to developing the idea. This was most challenging task from the project. I didn’t have much time because most of time I was struggling in the research part. As I had a little time and have to do two model and a technical drawing.  I had a mental break down, where I was very stressful and physically was weak. I kept on think how to do this. All the negative was surrounding me.  My mind was filled with ideas yet I wasn’t able to make it. I start to panicking as the due date was getting close. Yet I haven’t finished my model. Those days I was literally fighting with myself.  I kept on saying to myself ‘I can do it’ yet other half of me was giving up but I didn’t give up. I kept on doing my work nonstop trying to finish all the requirement. I stop asking my classmate about the project which made me focus on my project.  I start to make a list of thing to do in daily routing. I kept on going in a timetable for a week as submission day was getting close. I was able to finish most of work as I was going with a plan.

    On the day of submission, I had finished most of work in the morning. Yet my presentation board was the only thing which was incomplete. I had to print the presentation board and that’s where I had troubled. I didn’t think about the printing would consume so much time. Due that I was not able to give it on time. I felt so sad and felt I have let down myself, that was a day I would never forgot. I have never been so panicked. I literally lost my phone on very same day. But luckily I had finish my material board and submitted on time. Which submission was until four. It gave me courage to submit my other work which was late yet I did submit it rather then not giving it. Due to late submitting, I wasn’t able to present my work but later I was satisfied because this was my very first project of interior designing and I was able deliver all the requirements which was in the brief. After the submission the feedback I got from my lecture was very surprising for me. I thought my project was not good enough as I was struggling so much from the beginning. There were good and things that I have to improve. The feedback was very encouraging and gave me a hope that I can design just have stop overthinking and focus on work. It also acknowledges the detailing of my furniture’s. I did lot of work on developing.

   Apart from that I have learned so much. I learned time management is very important. If I had make a timetable from the beginning of the project. I would have completed on time and would have make something more interesting and creative. It also makes me realize that thinking about others does make you think negatively but asking for help and helping is fine. This experience did teach me to be patient when it come to the thing that take time. Where you have to cooperate with other people. From this project I did surprise myself even never I have ever thought, I would be able to do a model and 50 pages of research book. As a person even I have become more fearless. For my next project I would defiantly make a time table form the beginning, so that I could have enough time to design properly. I have learned so much from this project that I know I have ability to design. This very first step of designing was very overwhelming yet exciting.  

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LISA CRAWFORD

lisa crawford is a successful designer who have done lots of products till now.  Crawford founded the Man and Well-Being department at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.  She established the interiors firm Studio Ilse, which designed the Soho House club in New York, Babington House, the Electric Cinema, and the Hong Kong restaurant Duddell’s, as well as pieces for Georg Jensen and IKEA.

 she says that, "When I look at making spaces, I don't just look at the visual. I'm much more interested in the sensory thing, in thinking about it from the human context, the primal perspective, the thing that touches you."

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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

Zaha Hadid 

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CENTRAL POINT

While i was looking for a building for a project. This was the first building i picked because of the detailing and colors of the building.I like the  shape and how vintage the building is designed. 

This building was so big. i could get a full framed picture of the building. 

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I came a cross this reflecting building while i was looking for a building for college project.

In Sri Lanka doesn’t have much tall building apart from these two. i don’t know the name of the building. i was very keen about the glass that were in the building. 

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STUDY TRIP TO RICHMOND CASTLE 

Richmond Castle is a very old castle in Sri Lanka. i was very fascinate about detailing of the columns. i was curved in wood.Same patterns were repeated in each columns. 

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You don’t take a photograph, you make it

Ansel Adam 

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Here’s a pattern i designed from Photoshop.i liking making pattern from Photoshop. i used do lot of artsy stuffs from Photoshop. i used the pictures of the texture that i made.

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I was trying to make a  marble texture with paint. One of my friend did a marble texture using paint. so i thought of trying to do.but end up discovering a new texture.

 My paints were bit thick so it was hard to move the  card board. so i start blowing it and got this texture. 

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I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things

Lindon Leader

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Here’s some brushstroke style font. I used in one of my assignment sketchbook 

I used watercolor at the back. and wrote it with a brush. 

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Brushstroke 

Brushstroke style is one of my favorite font style.it resembles how Japaneses  language  letters are. as they also use specific brush to write. Brush stroke font has same vibe. that why i like using brushstroke style .

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Here’s a photo collection of helvetica font. Helvetica font was used in many areas of Sri Lanka.

These picture were taken near my home area. there were lot of board that used helvetica font. Mostly it was use in print shops. 

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HELVETICA

The original name  that was given to this font was ‘Neue Haas Grotesk’. This font was created by Max Miedinger and  Eduard Hoffmann,In 1957. Later on in 1960,it was renamed to ‘Helvetica’. This font is used world widely.

This picture was made in Photoshop. I wanted to show the originality of the font. 

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MAX MIEDINGER 

Max Medinger was a swiss typeface designer.He created  Neue Haas Grotesk typeface with Edouard Hoffmann , In 1957. Neue Haas Grotesk which now know as ‘Helvetica’. 

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The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to ‘make the invisible visible

Hillman Curtis

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DESIGN BLOGGING

Design blogging is showcase you’re designs in social platforms. This will help you to gain good project.As a designer showcase you’re works is  compulsory thing because this would be your CV  for a  job. Designer has to make  a blog to get clients. People first wants to see the designs and then meet the designer in person Blogging is a very important part to designers career.