Portfolio Success

Final display almost ready...just awaiting the final touches.

Thanks to the best mom who flew out for the week just to help me pull it off. Couldn't have done it without her. She loved being a co-ed for a week.

Thanks to Kimber Cutler for taking great portrait photos.

Rachelle Parker and her lovely daughter's that helped me along the way. She and Daren, her husband, have offered support not only for the entire two years, but as long as I've known them!

ID Program Director, Miles Hunsaker. What an amazing man to assist so many striving designers.

Wonderful friends and students that coped together to make it to the end of our program. Amanda Egbert, Lindsay Robbins, Julia Leavitt and I

My three favorite ladies that have shared many memories over the last two years and have become some of my best friends. 

Samantha Knaphus, Paige Beech, and Aubrey Smith. 

Uncle Thom, & Aunt Katrina. They were my means of survival. Allowing me to crash at their beautiful home on the late nights that I couldn't make it back to Provo. 

Best Family Support: Katrina Youd, Mom, and Grandma Youd. 

 

All of the portfolios this year were absolutely amazing, every entry was so unique and amazing. I felt so lucky to have been awarded the student choice award, and commercial 3rd place. 

Time flew by, and many memories were made over the two year program. It's a time I'll never forget and people I won't soon either. What a fun experience it was and a time that I enjoyed more than any other. How lucky I am to have had such an opportunity to study something I am absolutely in love with. In the end I felt successful for just having completed a portfolio book that comprises all of my work, and will allow more to come as I expand my portfolio and resume. 

Rendering: Modern Lodge

Our final project for Rendering was to chose a picture from a magazine that we wanted to recreate in our own renderings. I started with a bright european influenced room, but at last minute decided it didn't have enough character and color so I switched and pulled this one out in a few hours. This is one of my favorite parts of interior design. I hope to get a few more renderings done of my previous color board projects so I can put them on display for the Portfolio Event in April.

University of Utah: Chemistry Student Center Remodel

This happened to be one of my favorite projects to work on. We were paired up to redesign a chemistry student room on the University of Utah campus. The best part was that it had the potential to become a real design project. We met with the Chemistry lab instructor, Holly, and her students to get a feel for what they wanted to see in the space and presented the final design to them a couple weeks later. Aubrey Smith and I created a space that would represent the school, chemistry, and be a comfortable place for them to relax, take a break and study. We went to go with a design concept that had the potential to be easily accomplished by the students themselves. That would make the possibility of it happening much higher and easier for the students to visualize. 

Johansen Residence: Remodel of an Apartment Space

For Studio 1 this past Summer 2011 we worked on an apartment remodel for a chosen client of ours. I interviewed my cousin Kara and her husband Grant to create a space that they would enjoy living in. We decided to go with dark woods, rich colors, and an ethereal master bedroom.

Work in progress with renderings of the living & kitchen elevations, and floor plan

Board 2: Bedrooms   Renderings of the master bath, bed, and child's bedroom

Final Board for Bedrooms

Final board for main living/kitchen

Final Board for living room and overall colors

Perspective Drawing: Master Bedroom

2nd attempt at a Perspective Drawing. This time we had the chance to pull in our own creativity to the space and work with a wall on the diagonal. At first these were quite difficult, but have started to become much easier and simpler to view the final product.

 Inspiration for the rug and Morroccan motif

Final Product, a little warped from moisture

Headboard Inspiration

Invitations, cards, logos, & all things design...

I've been busy working on some fun graphic design projects & thought I'd share a few of the recent designs created for numerous occasions...

I absolutely love when family gets together & this past week we had 3 major reasons to gather, A wedding, a new baby boy and a new baby girl! We had a little family shower following the pre wedding dinner, here is just a fun little invite that was sent out.

Logo that I used for my Space Planning projects for school this past semester. Inspired by an invitation I came across while doing my usual design web binge

You may have seen this from my previous semester of Interior Design, its an informative poster for the "Mock" Furniture Market in SLC.

For each project we turn in we include a Title Block, here is one I used on my concept board for my friend Aubrey Smith's dream kitchen.

Birthday Invitation for the big Two Zero!

My mom is inspired by the Blogger world and decided she would create one of her own for her calling as Preparedness Specialist. Here is the logo I came up with for her front page. 

Check her Clever Pomegranate Site out

*You may not see the logo up quite yet, it takes a bit for her to figure out some of this rapid technology craze.

A friend I met through our trip to Thailand with the HELP International Organization, Garrett Jensen, called me up a month or so ago in need of a logo revision. We played around with a few ideas, this was my personal favorite, not sure if we ever achieved the perfect fit, but it gave me something fun to do!

*Check out the amazing HELP International program 

*Also Check out GUVU's facebook page 

Another fun invitation that went along with the SLC Furniture Market

As I mentioned earlier my family gathered together last weekend for my beautiful cousin's wedding. I created her invitation to be sent out to friends and family, take a look.

The past few months I have had the great opportunity to work with my cousins in their real estate office. This has given me some great opportunities to pull together some design, marketing & web design.

Here is a photo of their office & new logo that we used on their website.

Logo to be used on their business cards, letterheads, website & all marketing materials.

Previous logo option

For my dad's law practice I put together a design for his business cards, website, billboard, and marketing materials. 

That sums up my graphic designs for the last little while, I'm excited for more to come!

Urban Stem Flower Shop: Space Planning Final

It's the second round of finals for my Interior Design program and this one presented a great challenge, but definitely expanded our knowledge & expertise on a design presentation. 

Our task was to come up with an original retail concept, create a name & brand, design a retail store to accommodate the necessary tasks of the business, sketch up and grayscale each wall elevation & floor plan, create a concept board, and most importantly create an entire model from floor to ceiling in 1/4" scale to complete the look and design of our business. 

We were so lucky & were given the opportunity to partly chose who our design team members were. Amanda Egbert, Lindsay Robbins and I had not gotten to work together, and took up the opportunity right away. As soon as we received the assignment we went straight to work! 

Above is the final presentation with the concept board, model, and of course a touch of flowers.

Here is our concept board that I sketched, gray-scaled, and put together. It displays the exact look of each wall, the company logo & name, and on the right corner you can see the swatches of fabric and materials that will be used in the store.

Closer detailed look at the wall elevations and textile choices.

Above you can see the drafted floor plan that we based the model off of. After we decided how we wanted the store to work, and the flow of the customers & employees Lindsay and Amanda helped to sketch out the floor plan and two of the walls on Auto Cad so the parameters were laid out.

The entrance of the 1/4" model of the flower shop, Lindsay & Amanda did such an amazing job of capturing each and every detail. I was quite impressed!

Arial view of the "Urban Stem" Flower Shop

Here you can see the desk, work tables, and retail decorating spaces.

Along with the main structure of the model we had to incorporate the lighting. Here you can see through the glass ceiling, where each can light and pendant light was placed.

My wonderful group: Lindsay, Amanda, our instructor Carrie Anne and I.

A great finish to a semester of fun, learning and expanding our skills. We recently received our grades back and were elated to see a 100% Final Grade on our Flower Shop, Way to go Design Team! Thanks Carrie Anne, we'll miss you, have a great time in Connecticut.