the city image & its elements

{a few thoughts}

Just a few ideas and thoughts of the tower/kiosk to insert in the entryway of the Natural History Museum.

ON LOCATION.

{wayfinding} in short, is how one gets from one place to another. 

This is the overall task of our next project to come--and here is the start of it. Myself, along with my 4 other group members--Savannah, Tina, Henna, & Randa, are challenging ourselves to create a better navigational system around the Natural History Museum here on our KU campus. The main issue we've seen thus far in the process is simply that one walks in and there is no direction in sight, the floor map is located through a staircase off of the main entrance, and is seemingly small for such an important part of information of navigating the space. Our mission is to tackle this issue to provide the museum goer for a simpler, more refined way of wayfinding his or herself through the space of the Natural History Museum.

{the final post}

okay--so now that my light has made its debut in class, I can now reveal it on my blog. I absolutely love how it turned out, and is definitely the newest & coolest accessory in my little office. I have had such a wonderful semester in this class--such a great group of people lead by an awesome professor {snaps for Austin!} it makes me sad it is over! until next semester, see you people laterrr.

*sidenote*

So, I am happy to say my final project is COMPLETE {yay} actually, it is sitting next to me all prettily lit up right now as I write this! However, I want it to be a surprise for my class tomorrow--Austin I know you're out there reading this--so I am just going to end tonight with a little side-note instead. This fun little thing happened to me where I became t-shirt chair of my sorority (who would have guessed, right?) Anywho, I got this random key passed down to me along with the new title/position. Come to find out it unlocked this mystery room in my sorority house that I have now converted into my own little studio/secret office. Let me tell you--in a house full of 100 girls, a extra little cubicle is like my own little sanctuary. Of course I added a few fun little touches to make it my own getaway, so I thought you'd like to see at least something fun since I'm not sharing my light until tomorrow. Peace out world..time to get some zzzz's before the final day of class tomorrow...ahh!

a little process work

just some pics of my "lite" in the making!

LIGHT — LITE — LANTERN / Materiality / Immateriality & Design

The fourth and final project challenged myself, as well as my classmates, to construct light sources SOLELY made of paper---oh and with no adhesives, of course. To begin this journey of a project, we started by exploring different types of paper--folded, crumpled, wet, thick, thin, etc. After we made our discoveries here, we proceeded to construct many different "skins" of paper--to develop paper folding techniques. After this we then scaled our folding techniques up, producing many large models to make way toward the final product. With many challenges overcome, I am so pleased with how I grew {design wise} through this project.