SHOWCASE DISPLAY DESIGN

from Portfolio 2nd Year 1st Semester

HOUSING FOR SHELTER SCOTLAND

For this project designed a showcase display to display a personal object that relates to fashion. A personal object is used with the purpose of winning more engagement and loyalty through personal story telling. designed this display so that it would tell, through its design, the story behind my personal object: a necklace.

The display is located in the design corridor at Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus. This project was both individual and group, where me and my three classmates came up with a group concept and worked it out from the big picture design to the very small details of how our individual concepts relate to the other designs within our group and how our personal display is built/attached to the wall.

Me and my best friend Sara created this necklace at the early stages of our friendship. had changed schools when first met her, and we didn’t get along very well. But after being given a group project together, we became best friends.

Waves of Memories

Our group concept is ‘Wave of memories’. As a group, all our objects have something in common: they all tell stories of memories from which we learned and which made us grew as persons, whether it was from travelling (Lucia), from a roller-coaster of a friendship (Ruth), from family traditions (Hristina) or from quality time with family (Wicktoria).

When we tried to picture in our heads how this memories shaped and how we could draw them to express what they make us feel, we always came up with wavy shapes which show a movement through time, a flashback, a journey, a learning process or the tracks of a roller-coaster.

Waves’ Propagation

The concept comes from the idea of how the waves would propagate if my necklace was dropped into water. This is a metaphor, where the necklace represents the moment me and Sara became best friends and the expansion of the waves represents our journey of growth together.

Having experimented with the necklace and having sketched the expansion of it’s waves I realized that it looked quite similar to contour maps. looked for different designs, especially for designs in a vertical shape and ended up finding the one below, which used for my final design.

Suspended Acoustic Ceiling

YQ Pang Pinterest

Object Shaping a Contour Sketch