Delving into the third project of interior design, this course segment offers students the chance to create a digital material board that showcases their understanding of materials, furniture, textiles, and color palettes within the context of a client's aesthetic preferences. With the final project aimed at designing an artist gallery or lounge, students are encouraged to incorporate their client's design style while adding their personal vision.
Key Insights
- The digital materials board creation task involves selecting appropriate furnishings, colors, and a color palette that suits the client's needs and aligns with the aesthetics of the client's work.
- Students will not only need to choose floor coverings, paint samples, furniture pieces, upholstery or fabric samples, and light sources, but also create a legend and a title block that includes their name and the client's name. They must also include a case study image to support the project.
- Software options for creating the digital board include PowerPoint, Canva, and other related programs. Online resources like mottoboard.com, materialbank.com and Swatchbox may be useful for compiling the necessary materials.
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We have made it to project three, introduction to interior design. Now, as I mentioned in the end of the last lesson, this next project is an opportunity for you to create a material board, and we are going to do a digital version of this.
Now, materials, furniture, color, textile choices, they're all important aspects of interior design, as I mentioned in the previous lesson. This assignment will allow you to explore the palette that best suits your client. At this point, you have a client who you've selected, and you've done a presentation that showcases the wonderful work that that client has designed, right, the famous artist, architect, or interior designer, and now you're going to have an opportunity to develop a material board that aligns with their aesthetics, all right? So, using one or more of your client's case study images presented in your second project, you're going to create and develop a digital materials board for your final project.
As a reminder, your final project is an artist gallery slash lounge, and you should consider the client's design style while incorporating your own vision with this. I would suggest finding one or two of your favorite client images, maybe it's a house they designed or a piece of and use that as a starting point, all right? So, knowing that you have this photo, look at the photo and then start to select furnishings, color, and a color palette that works for your client. Now, under the requirements, you're going to have at least the minimum requirements, which I'll go over now.
One floor covering or hard surface material. This could be whatever you're planning to apply to the floor, wood, stone, tile, or any other appropriate material. You should have at least one paint sample, but it's okay to have more.
You may have a whole color palette where you've got, just like the lesson I shared, where you've got three or four different shades of blue, and that's okay. You're going to have a minimum of one piece of furniture, and the reason why I say this is because it's an artist lounge slash gallery, so it may be very limited with how much furniture you want to put in there. So, I'm okay if it's just a bench or a single chair, but maybe you want to come up with a couple different options to show your client.
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You're going to have one or more upholstery or fabric samples. You're going to have a minimum of one furniture or case finish material, case good finish material. This is in conjunction with the furniture piece, so you could show an image of a piece of furniture that you're using, and you could potentially show an image of what the surface material of that furniture piece is if it's not clear.
You're going to have two or more light sources. This could be a lamp, recessed light, pendant, or something similar. I would like you to create a legend.
The example of this is in the last lesson where I showed the legend on the bottom left of the digital material board. A title block that has your name and the client's name, and I would like you to include at least one case study image to support the project. So, you may put this right in the middle of the project, and then around it put your materials.
It's up to you. Now, there are some optional things that you could potentially do, and whether you do this or not depends on what you want to do with the final design, right? So, if you're designing an artist lounge slash gallery, and you know that you're going to have some sort of wall covering, you may choose to select a wall covering. You may not.
You may decide that's not something you want to do. If you choose to design an artist lounge or gallery that you do not want any windows, then you wouldn't show any samples of what the glass would be. But if you do know that you want to have some sort of sunlight coming in, I mean galleries and an artist lounge are very different.
Some of them want sunlight, and others want the darkness to preserve the artwork. And how you interpret this is going to depend on who your client is, and how you design with your concept as you move forward. Another option is a window covering, whether it's a shading device or a curtain.
And you may say, no, I don't want any of those inside this project. Once your materials and furnishings are selected, you're going to create a digital presentation of your board. This will be one slide.
Refer to the last class lesson. I showed a number of examples. You may organize your board horizontally or vertically, as you see fit.
And the digital board may be created in PowerPoint, as I shared in the last lesson. Or you may want to use Canva or any other software program. I'm open to different software for this.
It's really up to you. You may also say that you want to use the online resources that I've shared with you, and then take a high quality screenshot and use that for your presentation. It's completely up to you.
Some considerations. This material board is an opportunity for you to impress your client, but also to craft a presentation that reveals the interior design materials and the concept for your project. Remember our conversation about concepts, right? And use that to help you with the selection of your materials.
I want you to have fun, but be creative and use the case study images to help you, right? The case study images are there to give you a little bit of guidance. All right, so just as a reminder, there are a number of references and resources that you can use. The mottoboard.com is a great source for building up material boards online, if you choose to do so.
You can find materials at materialbank.com and Swatchbox, so please feel free to check them out. You're welcome to use, again, PowerPoint, Photoshop, InDesign, Canva, MotoBoard, or any other related software program that illustrates the ideas of the materials, the furniture, the lighting, the floor coverings, and everything else that you are designing for this space or that you want to include in the design. It's okay to use sites like Pinterest and Etsy to find materials.
You may go to Material Bank or Swatchbox to find materials that you're going to use. Go look at the client's work. See what kind of materials they would have used, and that may help you determine what materials you're going to use.
