How To Use Design To Create A Narrative Interior

How To Use Design To Create A Narrative Interior

Creating a home that narrates something is an art form, where designs intertwine to make up a story reflecting your personality, history, and aspirations. Spatial storytelling in interior turns your living space into a significant and interactive environment where every room, furniture, and decor accessory makes up one story. It’s deeper than that-think along the lines of giving your space some meaning, a purpose, and emotional depth. Here’s how you can use design to craft a narrative in your home. Creating a Narrative in your Home Establishing a Central Theme The central theme of telling spatial stories is to find a point that resonates with your personal story. It will be the backbone of your narrative and will drive all the design decisions you make in the house. Whether it’s love for travelling, connecting with nature, or giving a backward glance at an era, your theme is to reflect your passion and interest. Unique placement of souvenirs, maps, and other cultural artefacts of places visited may give your home a travel theme. You can also add a gallery wall with postcards in frames, use vintage suitcases for storing items, or even a world map mural. The idea is to make each room feel like part of the journey, not just visually but also psychologically. Using Colour To Set The Tone Colour is one of the most powerful story boarding methods available. It can evoke emotion; it sets the mood and ties together various components within your design. When it came to choosing a colour palette, take note of what feeling you wanted each room to portray and how it furthered the overall story you wanted to tell. Curating Objects With Meaning Anything that’s in your house should say something. Rather than having random things in your room, pick out things that mean something or add to a story. This could be a family heirloom, a piece of art, or even an everyday object that has some special prop to it. The memory wall is designed with a group of personal objects, such as photographs, letters, and trinkets.  Designing Spaces with Purpose Let the inspiration come from within your story for every room in your house to serve some purpose of being there. A house should be looked at as a book, and every room within that house should be like a chapter leading to the next. This will make sure that the choices you make in design will not only be beautiful but also purposeful and functional. Adding Layers and Textures Textured elements and layers give your storytelling a depth of character, thereby making your home lived in and dynamic. Different materials and finishes can relate to specific feelings and memories, allowing storytelling to be amplified within your design. Worn woods, linens, and rattan in one space create the feeling of a beach house. Layering into furniture, rugs, and accessories with these elements in mind evokes a tactile sensation that puts you on the beach side. The textural interplay lends a room texture and interestingly enriches it, layer by layer, in its telling. Playing with Light and Shadows Lighting sets the scene and establishes the mood inside your home. By using light and shadow judiciously, you draw other people’s attention to particular areas, thereby creating focal points and expressing varied emotions throughout the day. Create below with natural light, ambient lighting, and accent lights a story that evolves with the time of day. Let’s take a room that should be made relaxing at nighttime, through soft warm lighting, cozy, and inviting. During the daytime, make full use of natural light to lighten up and uplift the area.  Artistic Storytelling Art perhaps unfolds some of the most candid ways to relay one’s story inside your home. Be it in paintings, sculptures, or other installations, pieces of art may express complex emotions and ideas that lie at the heart of your story. Create a work of art or even commission one, to have them create art that could mirror your narrative, experiences, or life events. Have someone paint that favourite memory or have a sculpture about one aspect of your life.  Conclusion In spatial storytelling, one can create or transform his or her home into an environment that speaks of his or her life journey. It requires much creative thinking regarding such elements as theme, colour, objects, and lighting. You can also create beautiful rooms that could tell a story. Your home isn’t just where you live; it begins to reflect who you are and where you have been, where you’re going.  

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 JD Design Awards 2022 Concludes in Goa

JD Design Awards 2022 Concludes in Goa

The grand event of JD Design Awards 2022 has concluded in the city of Goa on 25th August, 2022. The aspiring designers who presented their collection on this grand platform hailed from JD Institute of Fashion Technology and JD School of Design, Goa. With the theme, Sync, the aspiring designers of both the institutes came up with multiple concepts that spoke of the futuristic world with technology and ecosystem intertwined. The young creative minds gave life to their concepts, experimented with various fabrics, material and reinvigorated the idea of healthy and equal living. The designers of JD Institute and JD School of Design with their collections in JDDA 2022 received huge appreciations from the audience and honoured industry faces. JDDA also recognised and accoladed the design aspirants in various categories. Best Pret Wear Collection Award– Natividade by Denisha Ann Auban Myrabo Fernandes Best Pret Wear Collection Award– Dare to be the Dandelion by Anamika Ishwar Raj Chauhan Best Sustainability Collection Award– Raponn by Britney Pacheco Special Jury Award– Nature’s Footprint by Jezril Martins Sustainable Pret Wear Award– Only One Earth by Hrutika Bhalchandra Salgaonkar Best Creative Concept Award– After the after party by Vipul Vishnu Gaonkar Best Designer Collection Award– Flourish by Dionne Joanna Dias “The Goa edition of JD Design Awards 2022 has been a huge success. The audience were exhilarated, designers were prepared, the eyes of their parents were glistening with happiness and we felt proud and calm witnessing the future of design and the responsible hands steering it. The challenge was given to the budding designers to understand where the world is leading to and the right path they can opt for overall growth. JD Institute of Fashion Technology and JD School of Design, Goa with their advanced curriculum ensure to produce designers who understand today’s world with their imagination.”, says Mr Nealesh Dalal, Managing Trustee- JD Educational Trust. The rumble of the designers and their concepts also showcased the pedagogy and approach of the institutes in raising generations of responsible designers. JD institute has a legacy since 1988 and over the years has given the design industry numerous revered names. The doors of the institute are open for the new learners. The colleges offer multiple courses for the creative youth. Currently, admissions are open for the Undergraduate courses in Fashion and Interior Design and Advanced Diploma courses in both the domains along with Diploma courses in Fashion Design, Interior Design, Fashion Photography and Makeup and Hairstyle Artistry. All the courses have a global curriculum and make the learners industry-ready with the right guidance from the mentors and by providing numerous opportunities during their course run.

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