August 24th, 2010
Well, hello there, what do we have here? An Adventures of an Interior Architecture and Design Student post? Did hell freeze over? … I have this tendency to be extremely lax borderline slacker-ish on posting entries for this series. Woops. While in school, I have no desire to think about more school in my free time. And during my break, the last thing on my mind is reliving school… making this the ultimate failure. As a result, I have a major back-log of entries I’d planned to post. So please accept this as my advance apologies for posting this and any future promised entries quite late.
Grovelling and begging forgiveness aside, we’re going to take a little trip into our time machine today back to fall of 2009 when I took Sketching for Communication. In a nut shell, we were taught how to translate the images in our heads onto paper through sketches as accurately as possible. This class was a required class for all non “fine arts” majors (meaning students taking Graphic Design, Advertising, Interior Architecture and Design, etc. – essentially anyone whose major wasn’t heavily based on illustration) and was pretty much a “Learn How to Draw Accurately” type of class.
Concept sketches and roughs for my final project.
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June 11th, 2010
Once upon a blue moon, I had intended to document my adventures through design school here on the blog. Well, that pretty much failed. I haven’t posted anything since November of last year. Oh dear. I got a little uneasy and anxious about posting my work online, but I’ve since realized that I was having completely irrational fears and after much debate inside my head, the camp of “Get over it!” won. So I’m 100% intending to re-commence the Adventures of an IAD Student series starting… now! Horrah!
When last we left off, I had covered my Shelter Design project. This mini-project later evolved into a much more intricate and elaborate semester-long project which I’m going to share with you today. Naturally, as I completed this project back in December of last year and have since taken a handful of more advanced classes, I look back on my presentation now thinking, “I would change this, and this, and this, and this.” I suppose there’s really no way to avoid doing that. As our skill sets evolve, naturally we want to go back and revise older work to bring it up to the highest possible caliber. And I fully intend to continue working away, constantly bettering this project. While I’m not entirely pleased any more with this execution, I’m still very much attached to this concept. So consider that my mini-”I think this kind of sucks now” disclaimer, and otherwise, prepare yourselves for some major verbal diarrhea on my part! (And I warn you, I can talk for hours on end explaining the concepts and decisions behind my designs.) I will try to be brief. Emphasis on the try.
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November 4th, 2009
Well. It’s been an eternity and a half since I’ve posted an IAD Adventures update. I suppose I’ve just been so overwhelmed with university these days that the last thing I’ve wanted to post about is … university. My blog has become more my escape than anything else. But I want that to change.
So to make a long story short: My second semester of study as an Interior Architecture and Design (IAD) student started back in early September. I’m taking 3 studio classes. Two are IAD classes, and one is a required foundations (FND) course in drawing. For now, I’m going to delve into one of my IAD classes: Design of the Built Environment A. This class is pretty much my first strictly design class. Conceptual Design, which I took in the summer, was the pre-requisite to this course and it essentially taught you how to work through the design process to give whatever you were designing – be it a light fixture, a piece of furniture, a room, or even an entire building – meaning and significance. DotBE is, in a nut shell, an extension of that class. However now, we’re actually designing structures which is super duper exciting! (It’s my favourite class.)
Our first assignment of the course was to create a fully functional shelter, meaning our structure had to run entirely off of solar/wind/water power and use no electricity.
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July 23rd, 2009
As I’m sure frequent visitors to my blog know, I’ve just started my second degree in Interior Architecture in Design (IAD). I’m just coming up on the end of my first course within two week’s time, and it’s been quite the experience to say the least! It’s very demanding and challenging creatively, but it’s also one of the greatest things I’ve ever done for myself. I was hesitant about starting up yet another degree so soon after I finished my last (only in May), but I couldn’t be happier with my decision. Design is what I truly love and I’m so excited to finally be working towards something I’m passionate about.
Drawings (plan, elevation and axonometric) of a selected light fixture
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