time to crack down

The time has come to begin stressing...I try to keep myself from doing so but you never know with a project this size. There are not very many days of class left to work so therefore I must come into the lab on days that I would not normally be on campus! That means tomorrow and Thursday! I hope to be done with cad by the weekend...hope being the key word! If I can get that done then I will be feeling very good about everything. I am currently more worried about the boards seeing that those are due before the booklet. So I just need to lock down and focus.
Today is a struggle with that though. We had the pictures which took a large chunk of time, followed by the grad fair. Which made me to start to re-think walking. I didn't really want to and now I am beginning to reconsider. So who know where that thought process will take me. But back to what must be done in order to graduate, this project. I plan on working on this everyday for the remainder of the week and even this weekend. I will be home in Louisville so that I do not have to get up as early on Monday to go to OEC. So while there I will be working and working and working some more.
On a totally different note that I am excited about, I was offered a job at the location of my internship. This is very exciting because I was also starting to stress about sending resumes and interviews and just finding a place that was hiring in the first place. Now I have a place to start and gain my experience and go from there. I am very happily going to accept this job and work with people that have become very dear to me and that are so much fun to be around! I can't want to truly begin my life as an adult!!! Bring on the world!

distracted

so I got some news today that was not what I really wanted to hear. One of the women that I worked under during my internship recently found out she has two brain tumors and one of them is the size of a grapefruit. Today she is at the doctor to see what steps can be taken. Waiting for the news is killing me!! I am trying to focus but am finding it very difficult. Please pray for her, she is a great woman!
Other than that I am going to be working on my bubble diagram renderings tonight and tomorrow so today is a day of knocking out the simple pages then working in autocad, as best as possible that is.

little bit of research

after doing some research in class today, I found a few websites. The first one is just a design firm, I came acorss their website because I liked the look of their large glass doors. Thinking that they were the manufacturers I went to the website, I was wrong. They still have some great projects in their portfolio. www.kimmstudios.com The next website is one that I found for finished concrete. I love the way finished concrete looks and the way that there are so many options. www.cndecorativeconcrete.com These two websites may help you all cause they helped me.
Also I have a question....how do we do a demolition plan?? I jsut saw that and relaized that I have no idea how to do this...help!

almost spring break....

So today is the last Studio before spring break, this is both good and bad. Obviously good to have a break from school and spend time laying in the sun of someplace warm, the bad is that the semester is that much closer to being over! That means that it is time to get on the ball and get moving. I am struggling with the bubble diagrams and little bit right now so I am trying to do other things to keep my mind off of it. Then when I feel ready enough I will go back to it and hopefully have something that I love right away. After seeing the ALoft boutique hotel in Nashville Monday I am more sure now than I ever have been to mix prints. This is what ALoft does and it looks very young and hip but also very sphisticated.
So after class today I am officially on spring break, but seeing that my flight to Florida isn't until Tuesday I am sure that I will be working on this project from on of 2 places, my bed or the lab! Either way I will be working on it. I also have a feeling that while I am at the beach I will be thinking about the up coming critique. So basically I am going to try and get a lot done before I leave so then I might be able to enjoy the beach.

productive day!

So today was a good day, I got a lot done or atleast thats what it feels like! I completed the design on my borads and also the design for the booklet. Once the booklet design was completed I worked on the pages that I could so far. This is one of the pages from my booklet...Obviously my inspirations page, but still atleast one that is complete! yay! other than that page I was able to get about 9 pages done. So that is a very productive day! My plan for the rest of the week and weekend is to sketch my bubble and blocking diagrams. And once I have decided on a floorplan that I am happy with I will apply it to the existing plan. I can do that is weekend even though I will be out of town (not by choice). So I am hoping that the weekend will turn out to be as productive if not more than today was!! Have a good weekend all....

sort of productive....

So for today's class I wanted to have the board design completed, and I actually think I do. Since the color scheme that I am using is black and white with punches of color, I wanted to continue to use that theme with the board design. I decided to go with a simple black rectangle around the entire edge. In the top left corner is where the name Onyx Square is located in white font. Also in the center of the board that will all connect is a black square with a white O for Onyx. This center logo has a been faded out so that it will not take over the entire board. The center is the only thing that I am considering changing. I have also done some work on finding materials and finishes today. When it comes to this aspect of work I love it! I love to see what all is out there and make selections.

Something that had slipped my mind up until today was the date for the design project. I was looking through my studio folder and saw that the deadline is March 5th. That would me a little over a week from today! Good thing I have been brainstorming a good amount. The ideas I have are more than likely going to have something to do with light. So we will see how that turns out.

As I was browsing through mirrors on Uttermost.com, which is a great website I found this simple mirror that I love that will be used in the bathrooms of the hotel rooms. It is simple but has interesting detail that surround the mirror! It will also help with the color scheme by not being bold or extravagant and distracting. Finds like this one are the ones that keep me motivated.!!

another weekend

This weekend will not be a super productive one in regards to this project. I have other school stuff adding up that is due much sooner than this one. That means I will be taking breaks from the other subjects to work on this one. I will continue to make selections for the spaces throughout the hotel, restaurant and spa. I will also be working on the floor plans and working in auto cad! I have also been thinking about what it is that I am going to use for the bonus project within the project! but those are all still inside the brain! have a good weekend!!