Portfolio
This portfolio represents my skills, creativity, and drive. Each project highlights my approach to problem-solving and my dedication to continuous improvement, and as an inspiring interior designer and architect with a strong appreciation for form, structure and space, this dedication is key. This portfolio proves my ability to showcase technical skills, design approaches and problem-solving within a project to help produce a meaningful and unique outcome.
I love to explore different types of architecture (for example, contemporary-modern is one of my particular favourites), as well as more historical styles, such as Georgian or Victorian, identifying how such art and detail can be applied to something as little as a skirting board. As well as this, I hold an inner passion to make a room unique to its environment, and most of all, to its owners’ preferences. I see an empty room as a blank canvas; an opportunity for my ideas and imagination to run wild, combining colours, textures and patterns to create such beautiful spaces.
This is something of which I take a great interest in when it comes to my own home, both of my rooms have been designed by me, amplifying my personality and preferences of styles within. My mother has been a big inspiration when it comes to interiors. From a young age, my mother has always allowed me to help decorate and provide input into what I believe the house needs. By doing this, this ignited a spark in me… a spark of desperation to pursue this into a career which only I can see as being the most suitable career for me.
This portfolio allows the favourite part of myself to fully express its passions, alongside motivation and inspiration from lecturers throughout my education.
Portfolio
Architecture Project
As part of my A-Level course, I participated in a Mock Exam whereby I had 7 options for a project theme. As architecture was an option, I immediately took this as my project theme!
This project was one in which I thrived in massively; researching popular architects who captured my attention was an element that I loved most.
I studied different material options for modelling, as well as perspective and observational drawings of buildings which I felt most inspired by. Although by this point, interior design had become more of an interest to me, I fully enjoyed the modelling and research processes of architecture too.
Work Experience Project
A project that became a real eye-opener! This work experience project was extremely beneficial towards my career decisions.
Participating within a live project, directed by architects, it was a week that I will never forget. I thoroughly enjoyed creating a design for a lifeguard tower as part of a hotel project.
Throughout my week at the practice, I developed key skills using CAD and rendering software, as well as participating in multiple client meetings and project updates to discuss with clients their opinions and ideas. All of these experiences boosted my desire to explore this career path.
Nurburgring PROJECT
A challenging and ongoing project. This project amplified my passion for motorsport, showing multiple design skills within the project structure, including CAD, rendering, sketching, and building!
The building process made the project challenging, coming across situations where techniques did not respond well to the products’ structure, and therefore having to rethink the design process, as well as documenting this within the portfolio.
By doing this, I was able to show how problem-solving can make a project challenging, but also represents you as a reliable designer, being able to face problems and resolve the issues by creating more sustained and responsive outcomes.
Poetry Project
This GCSE project diverted my attention to a different aspect of art: how linguistics can be applied to the art form. Investigating how different artists can apply linguistic forms to create art, as well as how I can symbolise a simple meaning and context through a small selection of words.
This project helped me begin to understand how a successful art project is constructed, beginning with research into an artist’s work to developing informed ideas to create a relevant final piece.
As this was my first vital art project within my secondary education, I had a lot to learn. But from the beginning of this project to my current final A-Level project, I can see that my work has developed and improved massively.
Get in touch
molly@mollymaydesign.co.uk
