Final project

A little preview

So here are some of our photos from over the weekend and what I've been working on. It's been a long ride and I'm down two fingers so I apologize for not having updated sooner!!!

So the first photo is of our sign for MAC. We decided that it woud look cute and fitting to have the sign peak out from under the curtains. Not ruining the personal feel at all andstill keeping the vibe intimate without shoving our product in your face.

The next is the model of our store. We're going to have steps leading up to the store adding to the bed feel. Both our display case and the mirror for the vanity will be built into the walls and on the outside there will be some dcorative woodwork to keep it interesting.

Since I had two minor emergencies I've yet to upload the photos of how are model is coming along and our display case, but i promise they'll be up tonight!!! I've been painting on our color scheme (blue, gold, very light pink and of course brown for the wood) and everything is really looking good :) See for yourself!

These are the bases to our poofs for the vanities. They will all be covered with fabric so they'll look more authentic.

Our checkout counter. This will be stationed so that the person behind the register will be able to great customers from all three doorways and turn around to help out customers at the vanities.

This is the very basic outer structure. of what our store will look like

and just incase you need a reference, this is our floor plan!

Our poor Dome

At first, it seemed like a really good idea. A dome is a regal shape. Simply elegant and something that Jackie O probably would've loved. But when making it, we just couldn't get it to sit right. and as was discussed with the professors it just didn't fit in the space. So now we're back to the drawing board with only these simple ideas we surely know

1) this is a personal space, a place where Jackie O would've sat every morning to put on her makeup

2) we want it to remain a personal space. Therefore we've chosen our vanity to be our shining star in the studio

3) we definitely need to focus on it being more of a bedroom feel, seeing things like cabinets, drawers and beds that would be in a bedroom

so we'll see where we can move on from there...all I can say is stay tuned!

completely random

But found this on another blog site: http://dailydesigndiscoveries.com/

http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2010/9/30/vintage-packaging-french-chocolate-box.html

It's a vintage chocolate packaging from france. I really love the patterns on it and the colors. I think its classic style might be something we could use for Jackie O?

Just a thought...we'll see what comes out of tomorrow! :)

sketchs and branding

Here's some sketches and branding for our upcoming project. The photos we thought would be a really nice edge to the classic Jackie O style and showcase the lip colors with a more modern flair.

This is the basic floor plan for the store. We're still fooling around with wheather we want one counter or two in the store.

Since we seem to be suffering from "in the box" issues with our project, we've been playing aorund with many ideas. Obviously we started with stripping the walls completely, then fooling around with ways we could suspend a chandalier from the center or doing just a floor and ceiling. We had come up with a birdcage idea, which although very beautiful, we still had to admit that even we were calling it a bird cage and who would want to shop in there?

More recently we've been playing back with our circulr shapes again and we've added back two walls. The two walls, for us, still maintain that comfy and personal feel that we'd like the shop to have. Yet the idea of an arch or dome is still very elegant within Jackie O's simple yet poignant style choices and personality.

Last but not least we of course have the vanites (there will be two in the store). We wanted these to also have those personal feelings, as if you were sitting in her bedroom. We we're realy insipired by the picture below the sketch to do a scalloped design along the edges. This style is again simply elegant just like Jackie O

Jackie O my gosh!

So for our group project we've decided to do a special collection of Jackie O inspired lipsticks. Since the space is so small we wanted to focus solely on  this collection and the experience. We wanted it to be a very personal space so that all our customers would feel like the store was just for them!

It also helped us capture the closeness that Jackie O felt as a wife and mother, she was quoted by saying that she was "a mother first, a wife second, and the first lady last." She was a very subtlely glamourous person. Her style was simle, chic and safe but yet she always had great textiles and tastes (when redecorating the white house) and especially her infamous sunglasses!

For our space, it really centers arround our two countertops (above). We created a semi-circular shape very reminisant of the hats that Jackie O always wore. We had originally played around with the idea of doing a circular space but it was far to close to the oval office and we didn't want any politics, only style. Th tops of each countertop withh be glass shadowboxes and filled with pearls (another siniture of hers) and the lipsticks in our collection

There will be two vanites in the corner of the room. Each vanity will be complete with a circular seat to sit on and a three-fold mirror. The drawers on the side will be filled with the lipsticks in the collection so that the customer can pick them up and go straight to the register. On the vanity will be all four lipsticks in the collection so that they can be tested. There will also be a small glass canister for cotton balls and another for make up remover. We also would like to have a pair of sunglasses, maybe gloves, and a "how to" makeup book including personal pictures of Jackie O to better reinforce that yo are her...at least in our store.

Our display cases are fairly simple. A semi-circular shape, with shelves that will gradually ascend. We decided that simple would be best for our space and for customers who would simply like to pick up a package and run to their other errands.

Final Project

I really loved my final project, despite some minor set backs. I had really wished I'd played around with the repositionable spray glue beforehand, especially when my lace fell mid-spray paint and botched a few of my sides. I still felt my design really encompassed my "glamour for all" idea and would definitely stand out in any setting and sell my product