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Amy Zylka
University of Cincinnati DAAP School of Architecture & Interior Design
contents Introduction Résumé
Part 1 - School Assignments
#1 - Outlook - OneSight Vision Clinic
#2 - Tell On - Travelers’ Gathering
#3 - Café Rendering
#4 - DAAP-in-a-Box - Storage Unit
Part 2 - Co-op Work #1
- BHDP Architecture
#2 - Walt Disney Imagineering - Flooring Pattern Design
#5 - Landor Cincinnati - Intern Project
#3 - Walt Disney Imagineering - Resort Refresh #4 - Landor Cincinnati - 100 Springs Event Design
Part 3 - Sketches & Photographs
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introduction hello, I’m Amy Zylka.
I am passionate about creating experiences on every scale, from small objects to immersive environments. I enjoy listening to Coldplay, being outdoors, capturing moments on camera, traveling to new places, and laughing with my siblings.
education
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning - Bachelor of Science in Interior Design • GPA: 3.8 Study abroad trip in Europe - London, Paris, Switzerland, and Italy Home School Graduate
Anticipated April 2018 August - October 2016 June 2013
work experience
Huntsman Architectural Group, San Francisco, California Interior Design Intern • Created and edited construction documents in AutoCAD and Revit • Conducted site verifications • Created rendered perspectives using Revit and Photoshop
Fall 2017
Landor, Cincinnati, Ohio Brand Experience Co-op • Created elevations, rendered store display stands, helped plan and execute events for the office • Edited presentations, selected video and images for publications, assisted with photo shoots
Spring 2017
Walt Disney Imagineering, Lake Buena Vista, Florida Interior Design Professional Internship • Provided project support to WDI Interiors team on a variety of resort renovation projects • Designed custom vinyl flooring patterns • Created rendered elevations, plans, and perspectives using AutoCAD and Photoshop • Attended meetings with art directors • Created material boards for presentations and documentation
Summer 2016
BHDP Architecture, Cincinnati, Ohio Workplace Interior Design Co-op Spring and Fall 2015 Part-time Interior Design Assistant Spring 2016 • Created renderings in Photoshop, pulled together mood boards, worked in SketchUp and Revit • Met with vendors, scheduled new product presentations • Managed the materials library, ordered samples, assembled finish boards, books, and presentations The Richter and Phillips Company, Cincinnati, Ohio Window Display Designer • Design, construction, and installation of seasonal window displays
Spring 2017
Photography, Cincinnati, Ohio • Second-shooter for weddings, engagement sessions, proposals, family, and senior sessions • Edited photos with Adobe Lightroom software
volunteer experience
OneSight Rwanda Design Volunteer Public Library Volunteer Church Nursery Worker
honors & affiliations
2011 - present
December 2017 July 2014 - present 2011 - 2016
• College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Dean’s List • OneSight/Luxottica Competition Award Scholarship • Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship nominee for University of Cincinnati • National Merit Scholarship • IIDA Student Member
2013 - 2017 2016 2016 2013
skills
• Intermediate knowledge of SketchUp, Revit, AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator • Basic knowledge of Spanish and French • Photography, sketching, paper crafts, sewing, woodworking
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part 1
school
assignments
#1 Vision Care Clinic Competition for Luxottica WINNER: Best Fixture Design Most Implementable Students’ Choice
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Individual
The Assignment: Create a concept and planning principles for Luxottica’s sustainable vision clinic program (OneSight). The standards were designed for three specific sites in Rwanda, but needed to be flexible enough to be implemented in a variety of locations worldwide as the OneSight program grows to reach more regions of the world that have no access to vision care. Concept: Celebrating the journey of regaining sight. This was achieved by using a system of fixed wooden panels that gradate from closed to open.
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Wall Types: Each wall type allows for progressively less privacy, more openness, and more light. The lowest visibility wall is used for employee areas and bathrooms. The medium visibility wall is used for the prescreening area, allowing some visibility. The highest visibility wall frames the dispensing area and provides shelving for the glasses. Wall Types Diagram
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Section Cut through a OneSight Clinic
Shelving Detail
notched to conceal LED tape lights
scrim fabric to provide a solid backing for viewing the frames without blocking views into the dispensing area
removeable edge band to identify Price categories for glasses
notched to provide a resting place for glasses temple tips
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The concept and components that I designed for this competition were chosen by OneSight to be implemented into their new sites in Rwanda. I created a standards booklet outlining the details of my design. Below is a sample from this booklet. In December 2016, One Sight provided for me to travel to Rwanda with three classmates and professor Ann Black. We conducted site surveys at hospitals spread across the whole country. We also met with potential manufacturers for the wooden wall system and developed assembly instruction packets for volunteers who would be coming to install the wooden wall system.
Outlook Standards Booklet
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#2 Event and furniture design Project completed in Europe Study Abroad Studio
Travelers’ Gathering
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Individual
The Assignment: Uncover a problem during the European Study Abroad semester and design a solution. Problem: After taking a trip to Europe, we have gained a wealth of experiences and memories. What do we do to process them when we come home? We have loads of photos from our journeys that we may take months to sort through. We try to talk to our friends and family about our experiences, but we speak in a new “language” that only other travelers speak. The internet offers many options for sharing, but we also need face-to-face interaction with other travelers to help us process these experiences.
Design for Modular Bench and Photo Display
Solution: “Tell On” - An event to bring travelers together to share their experiences - their common “language” - with each other. The event is centered around a dinner sponsored by the photo printing company Artifact Uprising. Each participant receives a set of prints of their own travel photos.
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Event Floorplan Site: Old St. George’s Cathedral Courtyard, Cincinnati, Ohio
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The dinner gives each guest a group of people to start out the evening with. It also starts out the evening on a communal note, by bringing all of the guests to one table.
During the course of the evening, guests have the opportunity to interact with others who have had similar experiences and can relate to them.
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After dinner, guests roam around the loop of photo displays. When they find their own prints, they can use the tags on the shelf to mark out their journey on the cork maps.
The coffee bar provides a secondary gathering point.
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#3
CafĂŠ Rendering
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Individual
The Assignment: Build a room in SketchUp, then render it in photoshop, paying special attention to lighting and materiality. SketchUp Photoshop Original image from SketchUp
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As an extra component to the assignment, I entered my rendering into the Sherwin Williams STIR Student Design Challenge. The challenge required the use of at least three Sherwin Williams paint colors. My entry included these two schemes that attempted to create a different mood in the space solely through the use of color.
color inspiration SW7008 Alabaster SW6470 Waterscape SW6868 Real Red SW6710 Mélange Green
split complementary
Café
SW7008 Alabaster SW6470 Waterscape SW6868 Real Red SW6710 Mélange Green
The paint colors used in this small, urban café space were chosen based on a split complementary scheme. The pops of red add a youthful vibrancy to an otherwise serene backdrop of green-blue and yellow-green. The scheme is underpinned by whitewashed wood furniture and flooring and off-white. These colors set the mood for an eye-catching, energetic space.
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color inspiration SW7005 Pure White SW6548 Grape Mist SW9179 Anchors Aweigh
monochromatic
CafĂŠ
SW7005 Pure White SW6548 Grape Mist SW9179 Anchors Aweigh
The purple and blue hues in this scheme are used to create a moody, elegant vibe in the cafĂŠ. The deep navy contrasts in value with the soft lilac, white, and light wood tones, while still keeping the same quiet sophistication as the other colors.
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#4
DAAP-In-A-Box Storage Piece
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Individual
The Assignment: Design and build a furniture piece. Concept: I designed a furniture piece in response to a need that I had: the need for a place to store my drawings, sketchbooks, and presentation plots from my 3+ years at DAAP. Each compartment is designed to hold a specific paper size or range of sizes for organization. I designed the piece with domino joints and slots, so that it could be flat-packed and assembled easily. Woodworking SketchUp
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part 2
co-op
work
BHDP Architecture Spring and Fall Semesters 2015
Walt Disney Imagineering Summer Semester 2016
Landor Associates Spring Semester 2017
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BHDP ARCHITECTURE mood boards, finish boards, research on finishes, paint and carpet plans, and renderings were some of the work that I created for a new office building for AK Steel.
AK STEEL
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AK STEEL BREAK ROOM
MOOD BOARD - COOL
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Photoshop InDesign Materials library Working with vendors
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#2
Walt Disney Imagineering Flooring Pattern Design
I was given the project of designing a vinyl flooring pattern that would mimic parquet-style wood floors and incorporate motifs found in the existing space, a Victorian-themed resort restaurant. I worked with a senior designer and an art director in developing the design.
existing carpet
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vinyl flooring design
pattern development
I created the linework in AutoCAD and rendered in photoshop. The final design was a 6”x36” border tile and an 18”x36” tile that could be laid to create a large-scale pattern of interlocking circles.
prototype
final pattern
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#3
Walt Disney Imagineering Resort Refresh
I worked with several designers in creating a more sophisticated look for an existing budget hotel. The existing space was colorful and a bit chaotic. The new scheme was still exciting, but more toned down. My main job was creating the rendered elevations and floor plans based off of feedback from the art director.
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#4
Landor Cincinnati 100 Springs Event Design
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Landor held a surprise party to celebrate the 100th birthday of Anne Wainscott, a local fashion illustrator. We decked out the lobby and the display windows at the office. I took measurements and created elevations which the designers used as templates for their spring fashion themed window displays (pictured right). I also created a template for each of approximately 100 glass panels in the Landor lobby and created a pattern of watercolor leaves designed by one of our illustrators, then installed the completed panels (pictured above).
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#5
Landor Cincinnati Intern Project - Interactive Installations
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BE FEARLESS
GROW
LISTEN
EXCITE
Team of 3
Problem:
Be fearless. Grow. Listen. Excite. These four new behaviors were introduced to us at the beginning of the year, but the office is still learning what they mean corporately and individually.
Goal:
Activate these new bhaviors and integrate them into Landor culture. Without people rolling their eyes at the thought. Get people excited about these.
Solution:
Create a series of thinking exercises and installations that cause Landor employees to think about these words in a new and creative way. Promote the porject with Instagram posts, a poster series, and a set of four pedestals with objects representing the four behaviors (pictured left).
Approach:
• Four symbols represent the behaviors. • Four questions used to get to the heart of each behavior. • Bold, minimal color pallette with a jolt of energetic green, representing growth, renewal, listening, and endurance.
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Activation #1 Be Fearless Wall. We took over a wall in a busy hallway for our first installation: an interactive graph that provokes Landor employees to think about what their biggest fear is and how they would categorize it.
Activations #2-4 In the final weeks of our semester, we will be executing three more similar installations/activities for the remaining three behaviors.
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inspiration for upcoming installations
We painted the axes of our graph and created a grid of 129 small nails that participants will hang their cards on over the next several weeks.
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Part 3
Sketches &
Photographs
Travel Sketches - Study Abroad 2016 Micron, Watercolor
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Notre Dame du Haut, France
Santa Maria delle Grazie, Italy
La Tourette, France
MusĂŠe du Louvre, France
Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte, France
Grande MosquĂŠe, France
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thank you for your time & consideration.
Amy Zylka Interior Design Student University of Cincinnati 10138 Zig Zag Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 (513)377-7340 zylkaar@mail.uc.edu instagram.com/a_zylkstagram