Depot Concept Model

The inspiration of the concept model was a flagpole holder. Movement, asymmetry, space and contrast of straight and curved lines guided the process. There was no emphasis in the inspiration piece so no focal point was added in the concept model as well. The flat metal and museum board were bent and curved to create contrast and form.

Inspiration Piece: Flag Holder



The metal and the white museum board were used to contrast each other. Both of the materials are bright and creates a nice and clean look.

Concept Model

Academic Showcase Reflection

The Academic Showcase was an awesome experience. One of the posters that I went to was #255: Greek Row Park. This particular project focused on how to bring the community together. Designers, landscape and Greek Row students came together to work on a charette. They wanted to turn one of the unused areas into a park where people could hang out and play.

The poster layout of this booth was very organized. The information was on an 8.5’x11’ poster and the writing was short, simple and straight to the point.

The second poster was #86: Linear Urbanism. Matt Milcher is from Spokane, WA and he was at the booth explaining about his collaboration with two other designers from Serbia and Brazil. This team project focused on how the cities were expanding wider. Matt researched on Spokane while the other two designers focused on Belgrade, Serbia and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Textile Reflection

The idea generator of this textile design was a flag holder. The form givers were: movement, space, form and contrast of straight and curved lines.

Idea Generator: Flag Holder

Below are the different modules that I came up. Each one shows the elements and principles that I took from the inspiration piece.

I chose the one with different sizes of squares because it had most of all the elements and principles: movement, asymmetry, space and unity.

 
The final textile is 36'x36' and each module is 1'x1'. By making the modules smaller, the textile looks a lot cleaner.

This textile design was a great experience for me. I learned how to design my own fabric and how to get it printed.

Client Brief

This is a poster of my client brief. It talks about the philosophy of the artist, Tom Degroot, and how his strategy of art is applied into the space that I will be designing. The luminous, silkiness and richness of his paintings will enhance the space that I will be designing through the lighting and color choices that I will make.

Vision Disability Activity

My classmates and I had the opportunity to experience how it feels like to move through space as if we had poor vision. We tried different methods of looking through plastics that contained a specific disability in the eye.

Here is my partner, Megan Pharmer, looking through different plastics.

Looking through a ziploc bag that's folded in half was impossible for me to read the newspaper.

The next task was to fold the ziploc bag into fourths.

We were given a sunglass that was covered with petroleum jelly. When you can't really see, you do rely on texture to find your way around!

The stairs in the Atrium library had good contrast and texture for the blind.

The stairs in the main part of the CUB was not well-designed for the blind. Walking down was difficult because the colors were both very dark.

One thing that I never realized was that blind people uses the ATM as well! 

Here is a sketch that I drew and took notes while I was at the ATM machine.

Adaptive Re-use Gallery

This was a group project that I did with Megan and Alyx. Our subject was on adaptive re-use buildings that were turned into a museum or art gallery.

The one I chose was the Akron Art Museum. It used to be a public library before it became a museum. They had no financial support and borrowed only two rooms in the basement of the library. The workers were only volunteers and they strongly hoped for a greater plan. They bought the public library in 1950 and opened up an Art Institute but after it closed, they changed the name "institute" to "museum" because the of the great art collection that they had.

Habitat for Humanity

This design for Habitat and Humanity was a team project with Carly Gonia. Growth & Memories, Family and Protection were the definitions of home that were most important to us. We used these words as a guide in the design process.

We were given the requirements of the home from the Habitat owners. We also had a great question and answer discussion with them in order to understand the purpose and goals that they were looking for.

I had a great experience working with and presenting to real clients.     

Posters by: Nkojoua Yang