MODEL THE BANGLE STRUT STRUT STRUT

After hours upon hours upon days upon days, the final model of our Bon Bon Bangles Booth was born. It incorporates bright colors, creative design and a great logo for eye-catching appeal and intrigue for the young girl wanting her colorful fashion must have accessories! Come inside!

The ceiling can be seen below...

The larger scale of the display system can be seen below...

And that is how our group developed the Bon Bon Bangles Booth!

Model? Model? Model? There!

After the first model we went back to the drafting board, literally, and came up with some different designs to continue on with our booth display. We came up with a few ideas, spanning back to the idea of girls bangles.

The second model looked like this...

But after critiquing this model it became apparent that a circular shaped booth would be better situated for the design, and so we instituted model number three...

This model gave us the circular shape, but problems developed during critiques along the lines of accessibility issues as well as theft and customer service. The size of the desk also came into concern along with the other issues. 

Our last model ended up looking something like this...seen below...

This model took care of accessibility issues as well as the way that the employee can interact with the customers entering the store. Since the customer can only access the bangles from the inside of the store, theft is now much more preventable. 

The Bangle Booth Intro

Bouncing off of the ideas seen in candy stores we decided to incorporate the use of straws and a checkered floor into our first model display which can be seen below...

We included a desk as well. The process behind us painting the straws and working on the craft of the model can be seen below...

Eventually all the laborious work demonstrated here will become finalized into an amazing final booth!

Juicy Juicy Juice

After visiting Dylan's Candy Bar, I figured visiting another store that uses candy in interesting ways would be a good place to visit. Especially since we are selling bangles. So I decided to visit the Juicy store in Georgetown. I asked a sales associate about the backstory of the special touches to the store. And she described it to me as a way to add some feminine touches to the rustic lodges that the owner's husbands wanted to keep. Here are some of the pictures I took during my visit...

These photos also helped in our design process. As well as learning about the design process behind the store's appearance. 

Ideas for Delicious Design

After visiting NYC. I made a stop at Dylan's Candy Bar to come up with some design ideas for our bangle store. Pictures seen below made me start thinking about what we could do to make an amazing store. Unfortunately I was not able to take all my pictures alone, since the store would not allow stand alone pictures to be taken. Actors were placed into the scenes to allow for the picture taking process to take place...

All the pictures seen above were able to help the group in our thought process of how to proceed with designing our booth. The bright colors also were a great source of inspiration. 

Lights. Canvas. Post.

After figuring out my painting techniques and how I wanted to finally present all of the different watches to the consumer I ended up producing a piece of art that also served function as an art piece. Which would of course occur after all of the watches have been sold and the frame is no longer needed for watch containment...

Front View of the box...

Top View (below)

Side View (similar for all three sides of the box) seen below...

Front Drawer view (below)

How one would pull the drawer out from the box (below)

Far view of the Canvas Wall Piece (below)

Close View of the Canvas Piece (below)

And that is how my final project ended up for this particular assignment. Enjoy!

Paint Me A Picture. Paint Me A Life.

At first I struggled with what I wanted to do for my display unit. Since I'm never really too fond of any golf store display unit. I find them to be run-of-the-mill usually, and something that I would just love to throw out once all the items have been sold. My first rough sketch for a golf course started out looking like this...

Quite rough, but brings out the idea of an aerial view of a golf course. Such pictures are featured in golf pro shops around the country. Some can be quite exquisite, others quite bland. I thought that making one to hold watches would be really neat. But after further review seemed too tedious and not necessary. 

So I then thought of another idea involving mini bridges, a center watch, and various colors, seen below... 

The problem with this was that it ended up being too busy, the focus was lost with the various different techniques and watches, and almost too simple to do in the end. So that idea was cut. 

Then while at the art supply store I spotted my eye on a pretty piece of canvas that was wrapped around a frame. Earlier that day I had been complaining about the whiteness of my walls and thought about doing artwork. So I thought why not paint a golf course? I've never really painted, but it could be fun? And so it was...see below...

Using acrylic paints and brushes I was able to work somewhat abstractly on these two holes that I painted. Painting real life things doesn't really attract me. More modern designs give the viewer something to think about and interpret. I like to use my brain, what can I say? Part of my influence came from the artist Rita Shapiro. Her work can be found on http://ritashapiroart.com/. She's actually a family friend of the family. One of her pieces that I enjoyed can be seen below...

It's called Synchrony and is an oil on canvas and the picture has been taken from Synchrony.

And from this I decided to just make one centered green, with various other colors surrounding it, not traditional to the game of golf... seen below...

By using these colors, I made the hole itself more fun and appealing. But then I needed a way to store the extra watches that would be sold later on, once the display models were gone. And so the idea of a box came up. With drawers. But since I wanted to continue the idea of finding the hole and scoring, I saw this picture of a store in Tokyo that is all digital on the exterior...

And from here I came up with an idea to make secret drawers that would blend in with the rest of the squares, in effect creating a challenge for the shopper. But using plain black and white colors seemed to be a tad boring to me. And so I found this catalog that kind of looked like the same pattern as seen on the building...seen below...

The colors in this catalog are much more appealing and pop out to the viewer, which gave me more inspiration for what kind of work with paint I could do. 

And so my interest in painting seemed to help in bringing my project along. Very exciting.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

Over the last two months I feel like I have grown a lot as an interior design student. Starting off in the business school, switching to American Studies and finally landing in interior design has been a hassle as well as a joy. This being my first semester in the program, I didn't know exactly what to expect, except for the one comment that I was told months prior, "if you're bored in class, we don't mind if you doodle floor plans." That statement itself just made the transition that much easier.

I've learned that time management is definitely of most importance. And knowing the employees at an art supply store by first name is just part of the job. Not that I'm complaining, just a huge change from business for sure. After botching my first project, I've definitely learned about the usage of adhesives, and what works best for different materials. Also, that sometimes a simpler/clearer idea might actually make your project that much better. Think calmly and reach out for suggestions and ideas.

For the remainder of the class I hope to become well versed in constructing projects out of different types of materials in a cleaner/shaper format than previously produced. Also to try and be more of an influence in critiques and discussions. Any minor input can help someone else with their final design submission on a project.

This picture represents a situation in which I learned from my mistakes, one in which I can now laugh about. But just a good word of advice, always know the difference between soy milk and regular milk.

Display Hip Hip Hooray!

Our next assignment is to construct a display system for our object, actually multiple objects to be seen by an audience in a free standing display or counter display. We have been reminded to think about how this display is viewed from every angle. This got me thinking. The front of the display might be pretty, but if someone walks up to the display from the back side, or the "wrong side" they will not get the same effect that the person who walked up to the display from the "right side" received. My dilemma is how to solve that problem. I want to incorporate a counter top display because I will be displaying watches, and watches do not necessarily take up an incredible amount a room, unlike a golf club, which would need a free standing display case.

I also decided that 18 display models for this display system would be appropriate in order to represent the 18 holes that are played in a round of golf. I then started looking at photos of golf courses from different perspectives and thought about the 2nd project that I did. Which was an aerial perspective of a golf hole. So, now that I'm doing a display case for multiple watches, why not focus on the aerial view point of an entire golf course? I saw this picture online....

And this picture made me think about using a table top display setting to present 18 watches. And put them in a golf course form set up. By doing this, in effect I am making my own miniature golf course to hold these 18 watches. By doing this, anyone who approaches the display can see that it is a "mini" golf course, and would not be confused. It would in effect force the viewer to walk around the display to see the different golf holes.

My next question is how to actually present the watches on the holes. I believe that by putting the watches on the green, just like I did for my print media ad, the consumer sees that the hole is the target goal of the game, and where you want your ball to be. 

Another idea that I had was to put the watches into see through containers such as this one...

By doing this, the viewer can see the watch from any angle, and walk around it to see any side or angle that needs to be seen. But by using a case like this, it doesn't allow the viewer to touch the watch and feel it, which takes away from the experience.

At this point I think starting to make little golf hole models will be a successful starting point in order to display the watches. Possibly using thicker boards to show different levels and tiers of the golf hole will be a smart move in getting started. Going to the supply store is my next mission!

The Enchanted Green of Dreams

The final project to be produced was packaging for our object, mine being the watch. And so I decided to put together a little box that contained the watch as well as a golf ball, which would come along as an added bonus for the customer when purchasing the watch. The box itself was to look like a ball was stuck in the green, which would engage the customer to open the box to see what was inside. That being the watch. The picture of the watch below the golf ball inside of the box can be seen below...

The lid of the box I constructed using chipboard, just like the rest of the entire box. But to make the top of the box more like a green, I used some artificial grass like substance in order to make the top appear more like a green. This picture can be seen below...

Maybe now looking back upon it, there are a few things I could do to improve upon it, and make sure that the box looked more like a green, and so the consumer knew whether or not they were buying a ball or a watch. The overall look came out to look like this...picture seen below...

And a top view can be seen below...

Overall I liked it. I just think now knowing what I know, that the design could be adjusted to make it more appealing to the consumer.