Copy Rights contra reality:
Just before Olympic Games 2012 this client having facility almost opposite The Stadium asked us to improve the look of it. I’ve created the design (the rendering of you can see at the background of the photo) and he was more that happy with it. Then somehow he disappeared from horizon… Today my work colleague brought me this magazine THIS Photo…
What do you think?
Strange world we are leaving in
This year our annual Self Storage Conference took place in London where Steel Storage Europe – company I’m working for is having headquarter.
I was asked to prepare something special for this occasion so I started to look for the ideas around and
the connections between the main subjects for this purpose.
I tried to put Steel Storage brand as the first on the line to underline its position of the leader on self storage market.
Because we are playing central role at the conference floor we had middle entrance place which I treated as Steel Storage Stand being the gate to the rest of participants.
This fact caused very interesting design requirements because of the 2 opposite directions I had to follow.
First was to put all needed information onto the stand’s elements.
Second was to great emptiness and invitation feeling of the entrance gate.
Additionally we had implemented the most important symbols of London. The top ring based on the idea of St. Paul’s Dome was imprinted around with London’s Panorama.
The doors were embedded with the reliefs the cathedral,
the Queen and English Lion.
Transparency of the Plexiglas’s panels for both gate’s sides gave us breath of space and shiny look.
On this short video you can see the end product of our cooperation :
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So my blog was hacked and in the end it was not working at all. Not very pleasant situation. Lucky me my friend Ivo Marvan fixed the problem and I can post again. Thank you Ivo 🙂 Here I’m then with one of the latest proposals :
Some time ago one of our (Steel Storage Europe) clients asked us to help him find the idea for his existing building.
He wanted us to change current – very industrial look into attractive, eye catching object.
That’s todays state:
and here is my proposition:
The client is rather impressed with the way you can reshape existing space.
Now will see if modernisation will happen and to what extend.
Revit is brilliant for such a purposes. It gives you full access not only to 3d modelling but combining this with existing state.
Enjoyable:-)
To warm myself up I took a part in one contest.
The subject was: Stand for “Mennica Polska” (Polish Mint) on expo in Berlin.
The contest was design for students looking for new carrier path as expo-designers with one of polish companies designing this kind of projects. So it wasn’t designed for me but being small and interesting I was tempted to take a part. I expected my fellow competitors being brilliant and refreshing with absolute perfection in a skill of using 3d modelling software. That’s the reason I didn’t expect to win it, which of course didn’t happen but I was surprised by the projects of my competitors and preferences of the jury. But then, we know it’s better don’t talk to much about the tastes. This exercise is rather hopelessly pointless. Better I’ll leave you alone with the pictures. They always say more than 1000 words.
Below you can see my project and here is the link to the results of whole competition: http://www.exspace.pl/wyEXPOnuj/Konkurs_wyEXPOnuj_sie_Ocena_projektow.pdf
PS. If you can’t see my name on the contest list this means they still haven’t corrected their names mistake.
Here is very good example how design – production – cooperation can work in a prosper of everybody:
I’ve designed this exposition – project for the company named Zebra-box
as a proposition for an exhibition using their zebra pattern as main motive.
Steven White prepared his proposition:
Client added his suggestions and opinions, Arkadiusz Stefaniuk of Steel Storage factory produced them and we’ve got this result:
Well done guys 🙂
