Design Talks

Exhibition Design UH Gallery 7th Feb 2013

Students from the Interior Architecture and Design programme designed the KEYBOARD wall feature, PIXEL ARROWS and the CARDBOARD spatial design elements throughout the gallery space for the Interactive Media and Screen Cultures student exhibition February 2013.

This short and collaborative group project is part of the level 5 / year 2 DESIGN STUDIO module.

Tutors Interior Architecture and Design:

Heidi Saarinen and Erica Liu

KEYBOARD

Group - Hardcore

Mandy Engelsman, Harneen Kundi, Thaarani Rajah

"Whilst repeatedly walking around the gallery space we decided that a simple

installation was required as we did not want to distract the viewer from the

essence of the exhibition. We designed a computer keyboard approximately 6m x 2m, with each key hand cut (suggesting the human element) from foam board and outlined in black

tape, making the installation more prominent. Each key was raised, by making

 a further hidden mount and then individually fixed them onto the wall using

a Vectorworks plan as our guide. It took many hands many hours but we were

very satisfied with this installation and the way in which it worked so well

with the other installations and exhibits".

Thank you, Thaarani for sharing your photos.

with some changes to groups as agreed 

Interior Architecture & Design – 5CTA1038 Design Studio 4: Inside Out

Level 5 – Study Week task 14-18 January:

During the week of 14^th-18^th January 2013, you are required to carry out individual preparatory research – for the first design studio project in Semester B, 5CTA1037. You will be designing an exhibition for the Multimedia and Screen Cultures students – with a public exhibition first week in February. Therefore you may place some focus on Multimedia and Screen based exhibitions. Your job will be to design the overall ‘journey’ through the exhibition. GROUP PROJECT BRIEF WILL BE SET TUESDAY 22nd January.

Research and visit exhibitions – look particularly closely at the design of a range of exhibitions;

- overall design solutions and approach (floor plan, design, application)

- type of exhibition (digital, fine art, art, education, business, craft)

- materials, techniques – and technologies (interactivity, user friendly, visual – graphics/branding

- circulation – how is the visitor guided through the space? Is this effective?

- visitor experience

- target audience

Compile a folder and bring to studio Tuesday 22^nd January 2013.