Designing for Client

'A Fragment of Time'

Like ESA, Lotherton Hall was another 'live' project. This allowed us to get first hand experience of client facing, and creating a design based on the needs and wants of the users of the new space. 

Lotherton Hall is a historic house in Leeds, which provides tours as well as function and recreational space. However, they wanted to expand into the original stable blocks which were currently disused.

They had decided that they wanted a new space for functions, which would be separate to the more public areas, as well as an over-spill cafe, and a new gift shop and information centre.

Myself and my team mate decided upon the concept 'A Fragment of Time' as we wanted to retain the character and integrity of the building in our new design. There were also a lot of historical features which we felt needed to be incorporated into the new space, to allow parts of the buildings history to shine through.

We also decided to take some influence from a clock mechanism. As time was a feature in our design, as we wanted the space to have the atmosphere of being captured in the historical space.

 

Interior Design Degree Show

I am pleased to announce that I will be exhibiting my Final Major Project in Leeds from the 17-21 June 2013.

Business Cards/Logo

For my Personal and Professional Development Module, I have been required to design my own logo and business card. 

I have wanted to create something simple yet personal to me. 

 I had initially wanted to incorporate birds somehow in to my design. I felt that silhouettes allowed for creative detail without drawing attention away from what the card/logo was to stand for. Me. 

Next I decided to remove the birds altogether. I feel that the simple overlaid pastel circles are understated and still allow for femininity to show through.

I finally chose this as my main logo. I decided to stick with the pastel tones, but simplify the design even further. The initials make the card straight to the point and allow my name to be the most prominent feature of the design.

Professional Design Practice

East Street Arts is an artist's organisation based in Leeds. They offer studio space for all creative mediums, ages and origins.

There was no lack of space when it came to the studio/exhibition areas. However the rest of the building seemed up be almost forgotten about and parts had fallen into disrepair and was altogether unloved.

This was when they approached our course, and proposed a redesign of the communal areas of ESA. 

My concept for this design was 'A Charming Temple of Kitsch'.

I wanted to challenge peoples perceptions of the kitsch genre, and instead of making a giant collection of tat, create a space where each of the resident artists could express themselves in a collective space.

My design features lots of areas suitable for displaying the artists current work, as well as eye catching features to make the space more fitting for a creative community.