Milan: UCF Exhibition 2009 (i)

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Following on from the group discussions we've had over the last couple of weeks, here are my latest sketches for our Milan stand.

I'm still working with hexagons a fair bit at the moment. They provide a narrative, thanks to their links with beehives and honeycomb: this fits both with the theme of 'colony' for the MAs at UCF, and of 'sustainability' as identified in That's Design's brief.

An additional advantage of using hexagons is the grid this provides. This grid gives great scope for combinations of geometric shapes, patterns and configurations (demonstrated at the top of fig. 5).

I've not yet explored using slotted panels to form a cabinet arrangement, but I have been playing with stacking and fanning panels vertically, which would provide pattern interest and structural strength (particularly important if we decide to use cardboard, as discussed in the previous meeting).

Having seen the MA Design exhibition last week, and the variety of work that was displayed, I'm concerned that boxes and shelving units alone will not cater for the formats of work that the various members of the group are likely to want to display. For this reason, I've been playing with combinations which allow for both shelves and podiums.

I've also started to think about using light decoratively - shown in figs. 1 and 5.