Interior Design Work: Glitz Retail Outpost

Glitz is a unique store concept that markets to the need for young people to be individuals, as well as to promote the technological industry. The image driven Glitz concept is to provide the customer a step-by-step system (not unlike Build-A-Bear) for customizing their own gadgets, gizmo's, and accessories. The Glitz environment is to feel like a techno fun-land and is to enhance the imagination. Even the name "Glitz" sounds techno and also projects a fashionable connotation from the term "Glitz and Glamour."

Computer generated perspective model constructed with Form Z.

Floorplan in one-point perspective.

View from inside Glitz.

Manifesto

I believe that art is people trying to see themselves in perspective. It is trying to figure out who we are, what other people think we are, and what we’re doing here. I believe people will never truly understand who they are. All we can do is learn bits and pieces from our experiences, and then put the puzzle together. But we will never see the completed puzzle.

Here is one of my puzzle pieces: I like problem solving. There are no new ideas, just new problems that require a new solution or different a way of applying an idea that already exists. I find that studying the work of any one person may cause my work to look the same or similar. I prefer to just simply absorb design organically for what it is. I like to simply make a note of what I like when I see it, and why I like it. The same goes for design that I don’t like.

I am passionate about design. When I was younger, I wanted to change the world through design. Now I know the more realistic dream to be: that through my work, I leave this world a little bit better for my having been here. What more can I hope to achieve?

~Katie Spatz

Interior Design Work

Glitz Retail Outpost

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