Real-life clients are a PAIN!

Well I am happy to state that my finger has fully grown back. It now looks like a finger again just in time to start another model, oh joy. So this project that we have a "real life client" for hasn't really been a client. He has failed to show up to most of our meetings and we are running out of time to complete our project so ... now we are making it our own project. One that hopefully we will be able to use for our portfolios.

Since the client has not told us what he wants we are designing it with our own color and material palette (which is nice, because we have better taste). The only rule is make it sustainable (which should always be a rule). The client has wasted about 2 weeks of our class time by not showing up and it is frustrating because this is a big project. My teacher gave us the go ahead because we can not afford to wait any longer. We can't afford to wait because we have to build a model of the entire building! Yeah... the entire building and it has to have all of our materials and furniture in it. When I first heard this I had nightmares of cutting my finger off again. I guess I have to get over my fear of cutting and this project will certainly provide me with a lot of opportunities to do so.

Ok I forgot to mention an important thing about this project and that is... that we were broken up into groups, thank goodness. My group consist of two other people. Its nice so we can break up the work load a little more and the model, if possible, seems less daunting to complete with two more people helping you.

The design aspect of this project is definitely exciting but I have to admit the model continues to haunt me. Hopefully once this project is over I will be able to sleep soundly once again, but that is a lofty wish.