At INTI there is a session called the coexist where basically students from different semester and different disciplines would meet to work on a real life project.
This semester we had to work on a mural painting for Dorsett Grand Subang Hotel.There was a space where there was a corridor, accessible only to the employers a canteen where again the employees would be given food, That’s the two places we had to design and paint, the corridor and the canteen.
We were divided into groups each containing at least a student from semester 2 Interior Design, a student from semester 1 Interior Design, a student from semester 2 Graphic Design and a student from semester 1 Graphic Design and we had to work together and design at least an idea print it on a model for our lecturers to show it to the client.
With my group we tried to focus on simplicity and on bright colors, since the area is quite small and cumbersome we thought that bright colors would make it look less crowded.
These are some of our ideas, we even had some failures, like the one at the bottom left side where we tried to give it the color of the Malaysian Flag since they have this quote in their specifications ‘Stay Local, Stay Vibrant’.
Other members tried a few more complex designs like the following:
Then we tried some ideas to represent the core principles of Dorsett Hotel, The so called ‘4 Is’ .
In this slide, on the first line you can see how we developed one of our idea. We had the idea, since we have a time limit to work on the mural, to allow the strokes of the brush visible to save time and also create some sort of artistic effect, and that’s how we obtained the idea for the the second image first line.
Finally we’ve chosen the following designs to be as our final, since they fit our theme well and had a better cleaner finish that the client would probably enjoy.
There’s our model, and we’ve obtain some critics from our lecturers from it, such as, it doesn’t reflect the identity of Dorsett well, and another concerning the design with the dots, that since it will be repeated into a pattern it might cause an uneasy feel to the people walking in the canteen.
In the end they’ve chosen the design from another group not ours, There’s the chosen designs.
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