Cluster Greenery Kiosk

Here's my original concept, branding, and design for a mall kiosk selling potted plants!

The inspiration for it was my Mossy Mint Chip design.

The goal was a lush, contemporary kiosk with accessible access.

I rendered the model in SketchUp and Photoshop. The top elevation view resembles a C, for Cluster. The circular design allows for maximum client-consumer interaction and display space. 

The kiosk stocks succulents, terrariums, moss, bonsai citrus, and the like, on reclaimed wooden shelves. 

Under the counter and at the back is storage in brand-matched turquoise boxes for plants and materials. There is a rack of brochures accompanying the products. The back of the kiosk is covered in acrylic succulent leaves lit from within, with a geometric surface design and inset pot holes for extra plant display.

Spoonflower Exhibit Model

 I was asked to dream up an exhibit design for a course I am in and make a scale model (1/2" = 1'-0") for it. I chose create a design for the type of booth Spoonflower might have at a trade show to promote a new (fictional) cotton upholstery fabric.

 The fluid space frames resemble bolts of fabric being unrolled, and there are segments along them for a variety of designs from the Spoonflower Marketplace to be displayed. 

The ones shown are from my shop and ottomanbrim's shop. The wallpaper design at the back is by joanmclemore and the one on the sides by alicia_vance.  

 Above the seating area at the back of the exhibit there is a hanging chair made of the new upholstery fabric. The hanging banners are all the different types of fabric Spoonflower offers.

 On the back wall there is a shelf of bolts of fabric and wallpaper samples, and a table to view and cut them on. There are Spoonflower Handbooks for distribution as well.

Dr. Rocket

My Dr. Rocket fabric is in Spoonflower's Rockets challenge of the week. This one had a roundabout process for coming up with the colour scheme. I pored over magazines and Pinterest pages hungry for inspiration. Then, still mildly stuck, I fiddled with it on Photoshop for four hours, while talking on the phone, until I got it right!

Shabby Chic 3D Model

 I made a half-inch scale shabby chic bedroom! 

 It started with hours of Pinterest surfing and leafing through Rachel Ashwell books.

 Then I gathered scraps of fabric, paper, wood, and other such decorative tidbits. 

I work very spontaneously on projects like this. For example, I was hurrying past a recycling bucket after sawing some trim for a window sill, noticed a shred of ripped corrugated cardboard out of the corner of my eye, thought, "Ooo, fluting!" and scooped it up in one fluid motion to go turn it into columns.

The walls and base are foam core with printed images of floral and mint planks as wallpaper and hardwood.

There is a doily rug and a rack of dresses. I made the rack using skewers, paint, and hot glue, and the dresses are lengths of ribbon glued to gold wire. The mannequin is a chunk of trim with a screw topped with a clay body and a rhinestone.

The headboard is a piece of foam core I embellished with paper clay and gold paint, and the footboard is a piece of trim I cut and painted. The mattress is foam core covered in fabric, lace, and velvet. All the pillows are stuffed with cotton balls. The mirror is from Michael's, the art is reduced printouts on cardboard (including these thrifted roses), and the drapes are actually remnants of an IKEA curtain.

The back of the chaise is a wooden cutout of wings. The little bust by the window is made of clay.

The armoire (or desk? or piano?) is a piece of molding with chopstick legs and clay and paint embellishments to match the headboard. Plaster roses make a good wall decoration. Little did I know, as a frustrated toddler, that the fabric roses I ripped off my shirts would end up in a model bouquet several years later.

I also gave the model a high tin tile ceiling with a chandelier made of seed beads, floral wire, plastic beads, and upholstery tacks.

 It is a flickering battery-operated tea light so it makes the room look all cozy!