Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:09:30 +0000

The villa named from the red color granite stone of the gate in a shrine, Tan, and the word meaning being attractive with many colors, Saitan is a revolutionized architecture design in Kyoto, Japan by EASTERN Design Office . It is a villa with 11 units of house but designed to look like a one concealed house in the area surrounded with wall consisting many holes. These holes can be conceived as many different objects, as the clouds, root, or leaves. Whereas the concrete wall of all the houses is with the shape as the nature like sunbeams passing through the crowed trees, and completely covering the houses of the villa.

The design in fact is based upon the idea of how the plants were grown and how the roots expands as the house also known as the immortal tree, with all the curving and nonsymmetrical design to the wall covering the houses and the walls of the houses. There is also not surprising to see some of the twisted design with the holes of the wall. It is because the house was built in an extraordinary place of the area, which was once a site of a palace, the design was also meant to be extraordinary.

(via contemporist)

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I am a freelance designer and illustrator, so I can tell you the “hustling” on the streets to find clients is a MAJOR part of what I do.

Here is one suggestion on how to get work like what you’ve described. Do some research and find the names of architectural firms, contractors and related businesses. Then, go out and find the buildings and installations these businesses have done. Then spend some time doing renderings of those locations. It doesn’t matter if they are commercial or residential properties. If you can make some good drawings and elevations, call them and make an appointment to show your work. They can better relate your work to the projects with which they are familiar.

For example, I located some beautiful homes in a nearby community and learned who the developer of the properties was. I took photographs of a few of the best looking models and, in my studio, I did a series of color renderings using color markers. (my favorite color medium at that time) I made an appointment with the architect that worked with that developer and showed him the drawings. She immediately recognized the properties and we spent a pleasant hour discussing the features of the buildings and how I captured them on paper. She put me in touch with the developer and that led to my first assignment with them, reinterpreting the conceptual drawings they already had for new project. They liked my interpretations, so, from there, I got two more assignments that year to work up concept drawings from their architectural plates.

THAT connection got me in touch with two more clients.

For one thing, they are less likely to hire a stranger that answers an ad on Craigslist when they already know artists that have already done work for them. But, if you can show them YOUR work, based on projects THEY’VE done, you will have shown them the connection between their work and what you can do for them.

Yes, it means that you’ll be doing a lot of work “for free,” but look at it as a form of practice. The pieces are still yours, whether you get hired or not, and, if they are that good, they can be included in your portfolio. And, if they are NOT that good, they you’ll know why you didn’t get hired and help you rethink this end of the business.

I generated three new clients this way, involving about eight or ten different projects.