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Through the Threshold

This week we had to design a threshold to our apartment. Redesigning the stairwell was a pressuring task as its the first thing you see...

Colour and Light (experiment)

In these photos I have experimented with light and colour, as well as how they react to transparency. I produced a coloured ink display,...

Planning colour in the space

Moving forward into a process of developing the level 5 apartment space, I explored different layouts and arrangements of walls. These...

TacTile 3

📷📷📷 One of my initial concepts of a tile was to incorporate the curvature and natural element of Gretchen Albrecht’s narrative...

TacTile 2

📷📷📷 During the second workshop for tile making, I decided to change the blue and yellow painted colours which I initially placed on...

TacTile 1

This week we partook in a clay moulding workshop, where we were instructed to design and make our own tiles. Focusing on the shape and...

Tactile, Touch, Tangible

Doorhandles, designing, playing, holding, imagining. Throughout the making process I really struggled to correlate Gretchen’s use of...

Finalising Wallpaper Design

📷 I have created my final wallpaper design. I chose to continue on with the “watercolour effect” painting designs which were inspired by...

Abstract Wallpaper Design

Creating a wallpaper or window covering based on Gretchen Albrecht’s work was rather difficult as she tends to have a few different...

Tiny, Odd, Not all purple

📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷 This week we were encouraged to allow our chosen artist to inform our model making. So looking at Gretchen...

About Gretchen Albrecht

📷Rocker, 1975 Gretchen Albrecht is a New Zealand painter born in 1942. She is now well known across New Zealand and frequently displayed...

The Colour Violet, Seminar

The Colour Violet. The colour Violet is rarely used in architecture and design because of it's royal 'boldness'. However when used...

Tiny, Purple, Odd

📷This week we explored 'Iterative model making'. Iterative is another term for frequentative, which means to frequently or intensely...

Colour Blocking

Colour Blocking: Generally means to take opposing colours from the colour wheel which creates a bold palette that makes either colour...

Proposal: Arataki Centre Volcanic Experience

The extinction of New Zealand’s Kauri trees is looming, and the majority of us remain ignorant to the matter. Kauri dieback disease is...

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