I Just Want To D E S I G N.

While my day job, in the Mortgage Broker field is paying the bills...All I want to do is DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN. That is what I do, what I LOVE and really what I do BEST.  I am hoping for a better job market in 2010.  You with me?

I have been looking over old projects completed for school, I am so missing COLLEGE. At least developing new spaces, color boards, space plans and perspective images...I miss it. {I could do without Specs, all though I'd take just doing that for now..LOL}. Even the all nighters, with my then roomate & classmate {Brooke if you're reading, you know you MISS IT too}. We would be at Kinko's at 1 or 2 am printing our projects. Hoping the guy who gives us a discount was working, and when I say discount I mean about 60% off. That guy ROCKED. It is so expensive to print, and bind 11x17 format!

[Bla Bla Bla, I am sure is all you hear. The moral of my story is this....check out some of my work. I need to be putting my pretty little brain to better use than processing mortgage loans. Kaapeesh?!]

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I finally did it

I did it!!!!!!

YAY. I am officially an Northern Arizona University Alumni.

Here is a pic of me with the mascot a HUGE Lumberjack...or his legs anyhow. Yay for Graduating college. I should be back to posting fun stuff real soon!!

G R A D U A T I O N

Its the countdown!!!

Just a little over 3 weeks until my actual Graduation day... MAY 8th!! I am finishing up my Senior project [a pretty dam big deal] and will be presenting to Design professionals the last week in April. (Wish me Luck!)

Ok back to work.....I will be back as soon as I have my degree in hand! =)

School update

I am just about half way through my SENIOR semester of college and couldn't be more thrilled! It has been crazy, hence the reason I haven't posted in about a month! Anyhow, I just finished up on an Italian restaurant, which took merely a month...jeez. It feels good to have this project behind me, it was challenging yet the end result was well worth the hard work. My grade come next week will hopefully reflect just that.

For my senior project I am focusing on designing a RETAIL space. The concept for my space is a very clean neutral palette. I am going to incorporate all sustainable materials to design a high end retail space that screams GLAMOUR and luxury. Here is a peak of what I have gathered as far as I N S P I R A T I O N images.

School is BACK...

and Busier than EVER. My last semester, 5 classes including my Senior Capstone Project. Oyy Veyy is all I have to say. I'll be posting...when I can. =)

How about the Inauguration today...a G R E A T day for America. image from Flickr

School Project

For class we were to design a dental office, given a current floor plan we were to completely change the plan to our own design. (With specific stipulations of course!) These are my color boards for the lobby and lighting of the Dental office. I really wanted the overall space to have a soothing, relaxing atmosphere....almost like a spa.

These are sketchup perspectives of the lobby. This was my first time playing with sketchup. It's a great program to show the concept of the space. This space took me probably 9 hours to do. The more you use the program the faster it is, just takes some getting use to. Images are copyright- Mi Vida Bonita--if you borrow please site. Thank you! =)
p.s. - I got an A on this project...YaY

School Project

I wanted to share some school work I have done for my Studio 3 class this semester. This was the first project & this is just--well the fun part of it. It was much more involved then what I am showing. We had to locate a building large enough for an Insurance company & allocate space for the 25 employees. The space ended up being about 4,200 square feet. The entire floor plan is to large to show any detail. So I'm just showing the Presidents office color board and 2 rough elevations.

What do you think? I LOVE the mirrored top desk- its available at spacify.com

*ALL IMAGES ARE COPY RIGHT PROTECTED