Hargreaves Client Board

Here is my client mood board for Hargreaves bathroom design competition;

Hargreaves Bathroom Celebrity

Ok, so i've chosen my celebrity for my client. Daniel Craig, known more for his brilliant role as James Bond (007).
Daniel Craig was born in Chester, North West of England.

On researching into Daniel Craig and James Bond I stumbled upon a James Bond suite at Aphrodites hotel in the Lake District.

Bathroom

• Luxury bathroom.

• Separate shower enclosure with power shower

• Mood lighting

• Large aqua spa massage bath for two people.

• Twin sinks.

• TV.

• Toiletries from Molton Brown

Room Facilities

• Beautiful bedroom area.

• Stylish king size bed

• Ultra modern furniture

• Pocket sprung mattress

• Duck down quilt and pillows (these can be changed by prior arrangement if guests have an allergy to feathers).

• Lounge with patio doors.

• Leather seating

• 50" Plasma TV with satellite channels.

• DVD/CD player.

• Free internet access.

• Hair dryer.

• Tea & coffee making facilities & biscuits.

• Free use pool & spa

• Beauty Treatment Room

• Free parking

• IPod Docking Station

Combining luxury, elegance and stylish furniture, the New James Bond Suite offers guests a luxury bathroom, mood lighting, TV, double spa bath, a separate rain shower, his and hers sinks and everything you need for a romantic break in the Lakes.

Enjoy a stay in the New James Bond Suite, and make the most of the facilities at the hotel, plus the beautiful surroundings of Windermere, and all the local attractions in Bowness, including restaurants, bars, cafés and boat trips.

Future Life Site Proposal

Choosing a site for my Future Life Memory Cortex. Has to be somewhere of significance; a city, somewhere that is none for its exhibits, events and public celebrations. Somwhere near water, close to the sea. My nearest and favourite city, Liverpool.
On our research trip to Liverpool we walked to the Mersey Ferry Terminals to look at some installations. I remember the space being inviting, open and spacious as well as there being many ferry terminals that are sat out on the Mersey with bridges to access them. These would make a fantastic site for my Design as they are walking distance from the City Centre, Albert Docks and lots of museums and iconic buildings; meaning people are constantly passing by and stopping.
Here are some photos of the specific terminal I intend to use as my site;

"Boogazine" update

After further research into my topic; 'World War I and the Interiors that Followed.' and selecting a question to focus on 'How did World War I influence the beginning of Art deco?' I have now decided to focus more on Art Deco in America and narrow it down again to New York Art Deco, I will include a small part about the War in it but it will no longer be a key disscusion. Instead I will focus on Art Deco's influences as a whole and discuss why New York is a city that is full of Art Deco.
Here is my updated "Boogazine" draft proposal form;

Bath to the Future!

In assosiation with Hargreaves Bathrooms http://www.jhbathrooms.com/

A creative live project to imagine a new type of bathroom that celebrates the sensory experience for bathing for a 21st century lifestyle.

The Brief

To design a bathroom for a North-West Celebrity. You can choose whoever you like as long as they have a public/media profile and whose lifestyle could be considered aspirational, lending itself to the fanatsy worl encompassed in bathroom design. Imagine what sort of bathroom they would inhabit.

There are two approaches to the project,
1. A conceptual project allowing a feely imaginative design response,
2. A practical project aimed at the commericial market

For the conceptual project greater empahasis should be given to overall impression through visualisation. The practical project should focus on the products and practiality of the proposal and will tend towards the accurate and specific.

Both projects should utilize bathroom products supplied by Hargreaves. You have a free choice about the other products, finishes and materials that you propose.

The winning entry will be built, depending on cost and viability. The budget for the practical project is £1000, there are other guidlines to be followed supplied in a letter from Hargreaves.


Exciting! I think I may choose the conceptual project. Now I just need to find a celebrity????

The Memory Cortex

The Temporal Lobe is the part of the brain that holds people's memories. The Temporal Lobe along with the the Frontal Lobe is found in the Pre-Frontal Cortex.

This will be the basic shape of the 'Memory Bank' that will be in every location taking part in the event.

Simulator Rides

Simulator rides are a type of amusement park or fairground ride, where the audience is shown a movie while their seats move to correspond to the action on screen.
There are many types but they fall into the heading of entertainment unlike the ones used for training. Simulator rides work by showing a film and moving at the same time. This information if fixed and cannot be changed without the software to rewrite a new programe. A film or experience can be made of any subject as they are created manually. A film of any given subect is given to the manufacturer who records movement to go with a film, you then end up with a video source and a movement disk, this can be preloaded onto a computer or manually set up using a floppy disk so when the film and disk are placed in the system it is controlled by a computer and a controller to make the film start at the same time as the motion.

Passenger motion simulators are used as amusement rides with a seating platform remaining parallel to the ground while being moved in a circular motion along a vertical plane. Larger scale motion theaters include "Air Time" at Carowinds, "Corkscrew Hill" at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man at Universal's Islands of Adventure, Star Tours at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Mission: SPACE at Epcot, the new ride The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Florida, and the now closed Akbar's Adventure Tours in Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. Motion theaters found in a traveling carnival include the "Yellow Submarine."

4D Cinema

4D film is a marketing term that describes an entertainment presentation system combining a 3D film with physical effects in the theatre, which occur in synchronization with the film (note that 4D films are not actually, geometrically, 4-dimensional). Because physical effects can be expensive to install, 4D films are usually presented only at special venues, such as theme parks and amusement parks. However, in Thailand, Mexico, Hong Kong, Nepal, South Korea, and India, and the U.S., some movie theatres also have the ability to present a 4D film, and the film Avatar was one of 10 films that have received the treatment, starting with Journey to the Center of the Earth. Some of the effects simulated in 4D films include rain, wind, strobe lights, and vibration. The use of water sprays and air jets is also common. A 4D film is not shown in a motion simulator, although some seats in 4D venues vibrate or may move a few inches during the presentation. Due to the fast growth of movies, video, and the entertainment industry, 3D Theatres have been enhanced by the addition of special simulations. The combination of 3D movies with chair movement (vibration, sway, tilt, drop, wave motion, or movement in any direction) and other chair effects, such as wind blowing, water spraying, leg and back ticklers, is usually considered a 4D experience. Using additional hall effects, such as smoke, rain, lightning, air bubbles, and special smells (for example, fireworks smells at the London Eye's Experience and gassy smells, when the stinkbug sprays it in It's Tough to be a Bug) is often regarded by many as 5D.

Unusual Restaurants

I want my building to be redesigned into something unusual and unique. But what could it be; A restaurant? Art gallery? Bar? Hotel? Trying to think of something that isn't mediocre is really difficult. Mayby I should write a brief from a 'client' give myself something to follow.
Looking for some kind of inspiration to spark an idea, I began to look at unusual public attractions like restaurants for a starting point.

 

Abracadabra, London

Abracadabra Restaurant serves an authentic and eclectic menu of delicious and wholesome dishes from around the former Soviet Union and the West. The restaurant has a combination of tables, intimate booths and the Focal Point is the spell binding revolving table that can sit from 8 to 12 people and revolves a full circle every hour providing an ever changing view of the restaurant. Each booth boasts its own unique design.

Sketch, London

The triple dream of launching a centre, a “lieu” or destination place, for food, art and music has been realised by Mourad “Momo” Mazouz and his team of chefs and designers over two expansive floors of a converted 18th century building in Conduit Street, Mayfair, London. sketch is a complex and unique site. Conceived by French master chef Pierre Gagnaire and restaurateur Mazouz, it has attracted unprecedented media reaction for its myriad food, drink and entertainment styles since it opened in December 2002.

Martin Creed @ Sketch

In the first of a new long-term programme of artist-conceived restaurants, Turner-prize winning artist Martin Creed presents a series of functional and decorative works, creating an environment that is at once an exhibition, an artwork and a restaurant at sketch. Exemplary of the logical and welcoming systems that recur throughout his work, the floor, walls and furniture take the form of new artworks inspired by the boundaries of art and functionality. Work No. 1347 consists of 96 different types of marble, in a formation of zigzagging lines across the floor, while Work No. 1343 is a new work specially made for the restaurant in which every single piece of cutlery, glassware, lamp, chair and table is different. This work brings together a mix of the mass produced and hand-crafted, from classic antiques to contemporary design from around the world. Four different wall drawings are overlaid by 18 paintings by Creed, including the series of four canvases Work No. 1100 (2011).

 The Gallery

The Parlour

Lounge on a variety of Louis XV seating in the quirky and eccentric patisserie, restaurant and bar from breakfast, through comfort food and afternoon tea for up to six persons until the last drink before home…

The Glade

Artists Carolyn Quartermaine and Didier Mahieu, have created an enchanted fairy-tale forest. For The Glade at Sketch, they have created a découpage forest which appears like something half-remembered and yet completely contemporary. Taking inspiration from early c20th stationery, they re-painted, enlarged and reversed the design, printing it onto hundreds of metres of paper. Each piece is handcut, and découpaged to the walls. In this forest, delicate 50s rattan furniture, from the South of France, creates a startlingly modern fairy-tale romance.

The East Bar

An ultra modern bar and lounge created by Mourad Mazouz & acclaimed designer Noe Douchafour Lawence, the East Bar is an intimate, stylish space for sketch diners to enjoy a pre-dinner cocktail.

Circo, Liverpool

Circo is a unique venue in Liverpool City Centre, with fabulous views of the docks, inspirational dishes and extravagant entertainment. At Circo we aim to provide the very best in restaurant, bar and café culture set in this stunning location within a stylish environment.

Roll Up! Roll Up! Liverpool’s legendary Freakshow is in town like a raucous freight-train – full of sexy performers, stunning visuals and a sense of humor that keeps the audience enthralled. It is a dark vaudevillian extravaganza that keeps spectators coming back for more.
Circo FreakShow is not a “collection of glowing light” or “avant garde tribal culture” – it does not pretend to be “immersed into otherworldly magic” or “marching into the stratosphere on the wings of imagination…” Circo FreakShow certainly is not made up of “outsider artistic children that never grew up” who wish to “travel upon a modern day pirate ship.”
Circo FreakShow is about the Rreal. It deals in flesh and blood, in pain and pleasure, in flame, fire and sharp pointy things! It treads the fine line between the dastardly and the divine. Circo FreakShow is made up of professional entertainers – and through our actions, we prove the amazing and the astounding that anything is possible.

Regeneration Survey!

As part of my initial research for the Honours Project I began a survey on the basis that my final chosen building would be the Water Tower in Ormskirk.
In the end I only asked 14 people 5 questions;
Age, If they have children and if yes their age, What they use Ormskirk for and What they think Ormskirk would benefit from.
Here are the results of what people want in Ormskirk;
Bowling Alley
Cinema
Indoor Play Area
Local History Museum
Animal Attraction
Student Friendly Cafe
Vintage Store
Better Market
Better Swimming Pool
Indoor Skate Park
More shops

and a few others that I didn't think were possible to even consider.

As I have now decided to change my site to proposal 2, The Paradox Clock Tower. I will use the same idea of thinking but remembering that the building isn't within a  busy town or city centre, this will definately have an impact on what it can be used for.

Childline Campaign

As a project in college we were asked to create a poster to encourage children in need to contact Childline. I decided to aim my posters towards a specific subculture that kids follow at that time. Emo. I also decided that a poster wouldnt be enough on its own to encourage them. So I come up with a quirky tshirt design and slogan to relate to the Emo subculture mostly but to all children. I then thought it'd be a good idea to use the tshirts in my advertising poster too. Now all I needed was a model. In comes my little sister, she was 13 at the time. New to high school, year 7 and finding it extremly difficult, who better than to help me promote Childline. So here are my final photos from the shoot. Done using a compact digital and our home and garden. Unfortunately I do not have a digital copy or acess to the hard copies of the posters.

Blast from the Past!

I've just found lots of old work on my laptop from my college and early uni days.

GaGa Interiors, Year 2 College, Final

GaGa, Andwarhol inspired canvas screen print.

GaGa Interiors

Art Show final space. GaGa inteiors.

Lickable sherbet wallpaper, crazy chinah lamps, canvas, cushion, all furniture remade. Lady GaGa inspired mad house.

Origami Mad! Year 1, Uni

All Boxed In, Level 1, Uni

Let There be Light, Level 1, Uni