Reception/Waiting area
The Wall of smiles project is a collaboration between Starship Children's Hospital, Mercury Energy and Chemistry Interaction, in order to make the hospital more lively and fun for the kids.
Eight design students from AUT University were selected to brighten up different sections of the hospital, drawing inspiration from children's answers to 3 questions. I worked with 2 other students to create the murals for the reception and the main waiting area for kids and their family. Our question was 'What things make you happy?' From the answers that we received, we decided to create a continuous outdoor theme of land, sky, space and water.
The murals were installed at the end of November. The designs and murals shown below are completed by me, but there are 5 different walls in total which our group were assigned to.
You can read more about this project on design assembly:
http://www.designassembly.org.nz/articles/interview-the-wall-of-smiles-project
You can read more about this project on design assembly:
http://www.designassembly.org.nz/articles/interview-the-wall-of-smiles-project
Brainstorming
Brainstorming with the cloud cluster we received from the kids (top right)
Sketches I did at the early stage
Work in Progress
Mapping our ideas out into the space given
Black and white scamp of the outdoor area
Black and white scamp of the wall for the waiting area
Photo of the original space
Colour version of the outdoor space
Colour version of the waiting space
Characters were completed in Adobe Illustrator CS6
Installation
Installation were completed by Colourworx
Completed Murals
Main waiting area for kids and their family
Outdoor play area for the kids
