Project Statement
Last year when quarantine first began, I moved back home with my father. Over the few months leading up to summer, he had decided he wanted to build a bar for our patio. After getting an estimate and talking to me about it I told him I could save him about $2,000 if he let me do it instead as my own project. And with that, I began with the project and over the course of the next month, I built, cut, sanded, and painted this bar. What took the longest was I wanted to add my own touch to it, so I decided to laminate basketball and baseball cards on the bar top to give the bar some personality. What you see now is the finished product from back in May, and it is still standing and in use today.
Process
View detailed project process at Bar Project: Process
Reflection
Having done this project before any of my design classes is a testament to who I am as a person and as a designer. I know some of my compositions may not have shined the brightest this year, and this right here is something that I think demonstrates that I know what I’m doing when it comes to design. I had free reign over a project where I created mock-ups, blueprints, and 3D models to replicate what I wanted the bar to look like in real life. After modeling it that’s exactly what I did I went out and got the supplies I needed and made it happen. Someone wanted to charge my father $4,000 for doing this when I did it for near $1,000 including the price to buy tools needed. My point with including this project is to show if I put my mind to something, I can do it no matter the scale. When I was fully invested in a project this year it was some of my best work. This is just another example of that because I learned how to use so many tools and how to apply my knowledge before the design classes to a real-world situation. I had to overcome working around bad weather and finding a way to make cards stay on the bar top and still outstand the Northeast Ohio weather. I eventually did figure all those problems out and created this final piece that you see today.