First I want to mention that I have become a design blog whore. My RSS reader is bloated with gorgeousness every morning. What a treat!
On to the important stuff. We are several meetings in and I am starting to get a feel for my interior design class. Prof. Sheppard is direct, available and forgiving - just what a 101 professor should be in my opinion. We continue to do scale drawings that involve math (!) but mostly just measuring and then adding and subtracting. Even I can do that.
Last week we finally started to break into more of the nitty-gritty of design work, not just the drawing, but the ideas behind the drawing. We kicked off with a lecture on the elements and principles of design (lines, color, scale, proportion...) and the process of design as well. I had an AH Ha! moment in class yesterday while listening to the lecture. I was hearing the professor lay down the frameworks designers use to create a project (the aforementioned, elements, principles and process) and I realized I was on the right track. This is exactly what I needed. I am sure there are intuitive and artistic types who can san-training make beautiful harmonious spaces of all sorts. I am not that type. I am the type who needs to learn the rules before I try to break them.
My second realization was that most every designer in the world is working for this same set of rules. They take the guidelines and then riff on them to meet the need of the client. It is only the maddest of geniuses, the game-changers who walk out in the world and make beautiful things with only their own brilliance to fall back on. I am ok with not being one of those guys. I am just really happy to be where I am getting what I need.
Speaking of getting what I need...I am down 34 pounds and thrilled, THRILLED to still be losing. I am sure I had one or ten too many peaches this summer that slowed my progress, but 34 pounds in 3 1/2 months makes me happy, happy!
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