2011年8月29日星期一

Storyboards bring home decor planning to life

Interior design students Chad Krikorian and Rechelle Palacios fiddled with a lamp,Unlike traditional Injection mold , mirror and console.

They moved around tufted ottomans and a sectional sofa.

They laid out wallpaper and paint colors.

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The pair worked on a storyboard – or visual images of how a room will be transformed, from paint and wallpaper to actual swatches of material for furniture, bedding, curtains, flooring – filled with their ideas to make a media room livable, functional and chic.

Like hammers for carpenters, stethoscopes for doctors and computers for writers, storyboards for designers are a tool of the trade.

For a profession so visual and tactile, storyboards – sometimes called mood boards – help not only the designer pull together their plans for a room, they help clients get a feel for what the end result of a makeover will be.

A storyboard is “another tool not only to present (ideas), but also to record them so it’s the formal record of what’s going to be done,” said Susan Pniewski, director of interior design with H&A Architects & Engineers in Virginia Beach.ceramic zentai suits for the medical, “It’s all part of the design process.”

While students like Krikorian and Palacios, juniors at the Art Institute of Virginia Beach, experiment with storyboards made of foam core and other materials, Pniewski deals with 3-D renderings. They’re computer-generated images of what a space will look like, from floor to ceiling, after the design is complete.

Sometimes after a job is complete, Pniewski said, you can’t tell the difference between the 3-D rendering and the final product.

For Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Diabetes Clinic in Norfolk, a photo of the area before renovations looks like many typical medical waiting areas, with uncomfortable chairs, industrial carpet and white walls.

The 3-D image of proposed changes shows a reception area transformed with circular shapes on the walls and flooring, pendant lighting over the check-in station and seating with comfortable cushions.

Sometimes, these 3-D drawings can be placed in an area where the work is being done, so people know what to expect when the project is finished and to give people a final-result to look forward to as they are inconvenienced by the renovations, Pniewski said.

Storyboards don’t always have to be so detailed – or expensive. They can also be hand-drawn interpretations for a client that include a color scheme,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their offshore merchant account . which Pniewski recently did for someone on H&A stationery.

It all depends on what the client wants and how much he’s willing to pay, she said.

Gerrie West of Folck West Architects in Virginia Beach and an Art Institute instructor says students will soon get into CAD, or Computer Assisted Design,For the last five years porcelain tiles , classes, but those drawings will probably never take the place of good, old-fashioned storyboards.

Clients will always want something they can touch to get a feel for what materials will be used to transform a room, West said.

They include people like Betsy Brothers, who oversaw the refurbishment and renovation of Suffolk High School into the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, which opened in 2006.

The architectural firm in charge of the renovation, CMSS Architects (now H&A Architects & Engineers) in Virginia Beach, created storyboards with color choices, fabric swatches and furniture design that members of the foundation board carried around as sales-pitch tools for the new center.

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