Finding Your Creative Voice through Design Elements and Principles That Spark Personal Inspiration

Okay, it is time for your first project, and I encourage all of you to look and go back to lesson one and two, rewind, pause, take a look at each of those lessons again, because they're certainly going to help you through this first assignment. Now, the project introduction. This project will allow you to discover a variety of inspirational designs, regardless of whether you prefer contemporary or traditional aesthetics, this initiative will have you investigate a diversity of creative designs that motivated you to even take this course.

The point of this exercise is for all of you to find design that inspires you. Now, the realm of interior design is constantly evolving, and each client will offer a distinct chance to address both their functional and visual requirements. Interior design is composed of many characteristics, lighting, furniture, materials, space planning, interior architecture, just a few.

For you to be able to inspire your client, you must be inspired. So this assignment will allow you to use the design elements and the design principles from the class lessons to assist you in not only identifying creative spaces, but to also help you communicate why you resonate with those particular inspirations. So, your requirements are to develop a PowerPoint presentation that effectively communicates what inspired you or inspires you to be an interior designer.

Your presentation should feature a title slide, written content that describes your design inspirations, and naturally visuals of a selection of creative interiors. The PowerPoint should consist of at least 10 slides. Use the design elements and the principles listed below and in the lessons to describe why these images inspire you.

Remember, we said the elements and the principles can be used to describe projects, to describe interior design. I'd like you to use those lessons, use what you learned from those lessons, to create this assignment. You may use any form of design, interiors, architecture, automotive design, product design, your inspiration is limitless.

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So, please feel free to use any design related inspiration. Please submit as a PDF when complete. Now, as a refresher, the design elements are line, shape, texture, color, form, and space.

And the design principles are scale, proportion, balance, rhythm, emphasis, and, of course, our ultimate goal, which is harmony. Now, you may not use all of the design elements, and that's okay. I want you to focus on the elements and the principles that are most apparent in the inspirational image.

So, let's look at an example. So, back a number of years ago, I designed a series of pieces of furniture, and I'm using this as an example to share with you how I might describe that piece of furniture if it was something that inspired me. So, I could say something like, the designer designing minimal spaces and furniture is an aspect of interior design that truly inspires me.

The table in these images uses line and proportion to create a balanced interior. The color of the light creates an emphasis on the form of the table while simultaneously utilizing color psychology to set the mood. Now, if this inspires me, I'm using the elements and the principles to describe why it inspires me, and I'd like you to do the same.

But there are no rules. You can look at anything related to design. You can look at outdoor courtyards.

You can look at cars. You can look at interior design. You can look at lighting design.

It's up to you. All I ask is that you use the elements and the principles to describe what you see, and I'm very interested in knowing why you're inspired by those images or that inspiration. So, this is just one way to approach it.

All of your assignments will have a rubric, and they will be broken down and graded accordingly. So, this evaluation rubric, we're looking for the explanations of your inspiration and findings, so we want you to describe what you find. I would also like all of you to create some sort of introduction.

This can be a brief history of your past, why you're taking this course, why you decided you wanted to dive into interior design, or why you're experimenting with your creative side. It's up to you. And then you'll have your 10 slides that show various design inspiration with explanations of each of them, and I would like you to create a conclusion.

In the end, this is what either I hope to get out of this course or a conclusion of why and where you think you're going to go over the next few years. If you could please list your sources, just the websites are fine. If you use any kind of periodicals or books, you can also list them in APA or MLA format.

It doesn't matter as long as you're listing your sources. Also, spelling grammar and neatness is part of the evaluation, so make sure that you're using high-quality images. If you are on, let's say, Google Images, you can go to Tools, you can select Size, and change the size from Default to Large.

And what that does is every image that you see will be of a high quality. You may use inspirational websites. I'll give you a couple that I use.

Dezeen.com. There is everything from interior design to architecture to furniture on that site. Another resource that I use is ArcDaily, just like it sounds. A-r-c-h-d-a-i-l-y.com. Or you're welcome to use any of the sites that inspire you.

Pinterest is okay. Inspirational images from books, from magazines. We want to see why you're inspired.

Thank you.