I.Design

Last post we talked about mind maps, mood boards and conceptual models. This post I will share about my first studiowork using digital rendering. Back to the project in 2015, we had a lovely site visit to 23 LoveLane Boutique Hotel located in Love Lane, Georgetown Penang. It is a heritage building that hosts spacious rooms with different interior themes: Straits Eclectic Building, Indian Shop House, Indian Anglo Bungalow. 65 Steward Lane. There are few more rooms offered in another heritage building that is just few stones away. The design brief given was: Imagine you could give a new breath to the hotel, what would you do? As the hotel is a heritage building renovation under Core Zone, there is no hacking work allowed to be done to protect the existing structure. Therefore, this task would be more emphasizing on interior concept or rebranding. Moodboard shows how 'Malaysia Cultural Heritage' is interpreted through materials and motifs Presentation Board in A2 size Some pe...

Back to second year. Unlike the first year where all the newbies studied the same courses together, we were separated into our majors in second year. Mine was interior design. Well, a brand new year. We moved to second year interior design studio (a small studio just to fit 20 persons) and we got new studiomasters! (as we have our studio project as the main subject, we called the lecturers as studiomasters, masters who lead the studio) So, how to start a design? Do mind mapping. Take a subject and start to elaborate about it. The core is to think.  After brainstorming, choose three design elements and principles that could make the design works. Design elements: point, line, shape, form, space, color and texture. Design principles: balance, proportion, perspective, emphasise, movement, pattern, repetition, rhythm, variety, harmony and unity. A simple example: start with flower as the subject, we can elaborate into colour (design element), organic shape(design eleme...

Time flies, ya? It has been three years since my last post which was posted on September 2014. You could have imagined how tough interior design life (even as a student) could be.  My second and final year were filled with projects, assignments, pre-graduate exhibition, internships, projects, assignments and viva exhibition, and then graduate! =) It has been one year since I have stepped into working life. And it's totally a different life! Anyway, this blog is going to be active again ( I wish to keep my passion to write =) ) Gonna fill it with those missing moments in degree life and perhaps the working life as well. And I have a new theme for the blog, new breath for new start! Let's talk about design!

So, it is September, again. Flash back to the first day of September 2013, I was a freshie in USM. The memory is still fresh,  nervous and excited filled up my mind. A new chapter of  life begins in a place that is far away from home. And that always reminds me to work hard. Homesick gives you strength, somehow it does. Holiday shouldn't be too long. It will make you lazy and lose your strength. Time to wake up and work! Say hi to September! =)