Exhibit!! - Concept for the exhibition stand

As part of one of the modules for this year, an exhibition stand is to be designed alongside the honours project.

The brief is to design an exhibition stand which will give be exhibited at London Fashion Week (LFW) 2015. The exhibition stand will give the public in sight to the proposal which is my honours project.

I began by researching into different structures and types of exhibition stand, and also the types of stands that have been used previously at LFW. I have created a pinterest board that has a wide variety of inspiration images and also information to help guide this project forward.

Initial sketches of my designs have been very loose and not very focused , however once I had spoken to my tutor regarding the brief and  also reflected upon my visit to the Manchester Institute, I began to produce more focused ideas & concepts.

I have been inspired by the shape of a test tube - this is vital instrument within cancer research and I have developed a series of ideas for the exhibition stand based on this shape.

The images below show a variety of concept sketches and the development of the sketches using google sketch up and hand sketching.

Concept sketch1  for exhibition stand

Inspiration images board

Concept sketch 2 for exhibition stand

Concept sketch 3  for exhibition stand

Concept sketch for exhibition stand

Concept sketches & mini mock ups - Using layout paper to also figure out measurements & spacing

Development of concept sketch 1 in google sketchup and tracing paper

Development of concept sketch 1 in google sketchup and tracing paper

Development of concept sketch 1 in google sketchup and acetate

Development of concept sketch 2 in google sketchup and acetate

Development of concept sketch 3 in google sketchup and tracing paper

Development of concept sketch 2 in google sketchup and tracing paper

Mood & theme board to keep on target

I am now starting to develop further concept sketch 2 as I feel this is best suited to the theme and also connects with the final design for the store.

Fashion , beauty and cancer cells.

I came across this article on creating a line of ball gowns inspired by cancer cells.

Take a look,

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2585493/A-fashion-line-inspired-disease-Theatre-professor-designs-gowns-look-like-microscopic-photos-cancer-cells.html

I feel this articles is very very interesting!

Breathless Breastless project!!

Through conducting my research for my honours project, I came across this remarkable group of artists.

'Breathless, Breastless Project'

A team of talented artists are working together with breast cancer survivors to create a powerful exhibition in Aberdeen  to raise awareness to the long term effects after treatment has stopped, It will also touch base on families are effected to, as I know from personal experience the devastating effect it has.


I am in touch with Louise who is the organiser within the project, and she very kindly has given me permission to share the project page.  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Breathless-Breastless-Project/164445467028874?id=164445467028874&sk=info

 After viewing the work in progress so far I am so touched by the moving images produced so far.  some artists have used new technology (iPads) to create their images but none the less, they are very inspirational.

Well done Guys - this is a fantastic exhibition , it gives me an even more a reason to go and visit scotland now :)

Sephora….Spatial Awareness project!

I shall go back in time to the beginning of term - September in fact!!

 During the summer, I was issued with a summer brief for Sephora- an international cosmetic brand.
This was an international life brief with PAVE http://www.paveinfo.org/home.

The main object of the brief was to design a series of Visual merchandising fixtures which could be joined together as a whole unit or as stand out fixtures. Included within my design was the following:-

• A Hair dressing fixture in which a customer would be pampered,
• A graphics fixtures, that would be changed within each season,
• A merchandising fixture, which would hold products

Inspiration for my design came from the year in which Sephora was founded, which was 1969. Upon researching this year, i found out that Concorde took its first flight and ignited a whole series of ideas for the project.

Shown below is the a range of different techniques that I used within the project - this included initial sketching using fineliners & pro markers, google sketch up, model making within a whole range of materials.

Any comments or feed back on my designs will be greatly appreciated.

Sephora Brand History

Target Audience

Inspiration Board

Initial concept sketch

Initial concept sketch

Initial concept sketch

Developement sketch

Concept models based on concept idea

Concept model of hairdressing fixtur

Further developement sketch & google sketch up

Final design for product fixture

Final design for graphics fixture

Sephora Fixtures - Insitu

Sephora Fixtures

Floor plans & possible configurations