This document discusses principles of design and communication for projects. It emphasizes that projects should start with defining goals and communicating the vision, not just tools or materials. The design process involves strategic action informed by feedback to develop concepts rationally and ensure all elements connect to the original goal. It also lists several factors relevant to store design like color, lighting, composition, symbols and events to engage customers.
4. Architecture of the future = architecure as possible
Who are we? To those do we want to go and why?
Start from the aim, the dream, not from materials or tools, and work on it going through a planning
comunication and a planning design
The analysis of feedbacks on previous experiences on which to identify positive and negative is the first
action when we start a new project.
The Project produces many EVENTS from concept to completion of the final goal and objects are only one
aspect of events
The DESIGN process part by strategic action, triggered by feedback, which should be developed in a rational
and communicable way (through the study of signs and their relation with the design) in order that
everything in the project makes sense, one meaning (the one you wanted), and that all images created from,
connect to the desire, to the image of the project from begininnig to end.
6. Colour and texture
Reletionship between colour and visual elements and display
The common associations with and reactions to various colours (warm and cool
families)
The relationship between colours
How neutral colours are bet used in store design
The relationship between texture/material and colour
7. Line and composition
The three major types of lines used in display : vertical, horizontal and curve
Composition
How dominance can be achieved in a visual presentation
8. Light and lighting
The relation between colour and light
Techniques for lighting
9. Interiors
The focal point and how to use it
The use of counters and display cases for merchandising presentations
How structure colums can be used for interior display
Traffic areas
10. Familiar symbols
Attention getting devices
Appropriate settings and display themes
Holiday and store events
Sources of props for visual display