Hello again everyone,
So its snowing like crazy here in Syracuse! Finally! I was starting to get worried winter was over early this year it had been so warm out lately. Things are going well here though. We only have a few more weeks until spring break and midterms! Yay! We got some new projects in my design classes. One of them is designing a small condo in the Hotel Syracuse, which is a historic hotel in the city of Syracuse. It is really pretty inside with incredible ballrooms and lounges. However, its been out of use for a while now and has started to fall apart on the inside. So now they are restoring the building and turning the old hotel rooms into condos for rent. There doing a lot of other things in the city around that area too. I'm pretty sure the project is called symphony place and they are planning on putting in some out door park like areas, restaurants and entertainment areas kind of to revitalize the downtown area. So our project is to design a condo for a specific client who has some sort of ties to the Syracuse area. It's kind of a complicated project though because you have to design around the existing building requirements and historic atmosphere of the space. But its cool that you can pick your own client and design specifically to them. I picked Steven Grasse, he's pretty radical and graduated from Newhouse for advertising. He's going to be a lot of fun to design for because his ideas are so insane. I'm thinking of going in the swank bachelor pad direction..
So thats what's going on here! I hope everything is going well with all of you!
Friday, February 13, 2009
Hello everyone!
So its been a while since I last wrote on the blog!! Things are going well here at Syracuse! We just finished our first set of projects in interior design! One of them was pretty cool and took a different approach than the usual projects we have. We had to draw out the floor and site plans of our childhood home from memory. We also had to make a list of all the materials and map out the heating and plumbing systems as best we could. It's really interesting to see how when you really analyze something how much you don't actually remember! This project was supposed to be really informal and we couldn't even use rulers! It was really hard to switch to such a messy approach after spending a whole semester being really neat and professional looking! In the end, the focus was more on connecting with an audience and presentation of a plan. It was fun, just really different.
We had more guest speakers this week as well! On Wednesday we had all of our design classes cancelled and had a "Day of Play" in which the university had guest speakers come in to talk about the importance of play in design and exploration. It was really inspiring to hear these really successful business owners and designers come and speak about how play in the workforce is what has set their companies apart from others. They also explored how play is an inherent need for human beings and gave many different examples of how a lack of play can cause many problems for someone psychologically. I enjoyed the lectures a lot because as a psychology minor I thought they approached both fields that I'm interested in; interior design and psychology.
In my materials class we had a representative come from 3form! If you haven't heard of 3form you should definitely look them up! They design different products and materials for interior designing and all of their stuff is really inventive and environmentally friendly! The new products they were showing us had such a forward way of thinking and really stretched the boundaries for what I thought was possible in different materials! We also got free hats.. a little bit of company propaganda but thats okay.
Well I hope your college search is going well! Good luck with everything! I'll have more to come later!
So its been a while since I last wrote on the blog!! Things are going well here at Syracuse! We just finished our first set of projects in interior design! One of them was pretty cool and took a different approach than the usual projects we have. We had to draw out the floor and site plans of our childhood home from memory. We also had to make a list of all the materials and map out the heating and plumbing systems as best we could. It's really interesting to see how when you really analyze something how much you don't actually remember! This project was supposed to be really informal and we couldn't even use rulers! It was really hard to switch to such a messy approach after spending a whole semester being really neat and professional looking! In the end, the focus was more on connecting with an audience and presentation of a plan. It was fun, just really different.
We had more guest speakers this week as well! On Wednesday we had all of our design classes cancelled and had a "Day of Play" in which the university had guest speakers come in to talk about the importance of play in design and exploration. It was really inspiring to hear these really successful business owners and designers come and speak about how play in the workforce is what has set their companies apart from others. They also explored how play is an inherent need for human beings and gave many different examples of how a lack of play can cause many problems for someone psychologically. I enjoyed the lectures a lot because as a psychology minor I thought they approached both fields that I'm interested in; interior design and psychology.
In my materials class we had a representative come from 3form! If you haven't heard of 3form you should definitely look them up! They design different products and materials for interior designing and all of their stuff is really inventive and environmentally friendly! The new products they were showing us had such a forward way of thinking and really stretched the boundaries for what I thought was possible in different materials! We also got free hats.. a little bit of company propaganda but thats okay.
Well I hope your college search is going well! Good luck with everything! I'll have more to come later!
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