Easter bonnets!!

As well as being a full time BA student, I am also a mum to a 3 year old little girl.

 My daughter attends nursery most days and as she is now in the pre school class, the annual easter bonnet competition was announced for the start of the easter holidays.

Well obviously being a design student - I thought I have to do myself justice, out came the glitter , glue gun and a few fairy lights and we both set to work.

 I bet you have never seen a easter bonnet that lights up before! haha! Although we didn't win :( , both the staff and children in my daughter class were thrilled with our bonnet.

My daughter modelling her easter bonnet

Easter bonnet

One very thrilled little girl!

Model making has started!

Carrying on from my post entitled…square, square and more squares', I have started to mock up using textured card and acetate the layout of my retail store.

By mocking up the layouts this way it allows me to see how my store will eventually look and also me to evaluate the layout of  different fixtures and fittings. I have decided already on some of my mock ups that I want to have less fixtures in and I want to move them around already.

Below is images taken of my mock up layouts so far. I have also tried to take the images as close to eye level as possible.

As close to eye level as possible

Overhead view

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