week 8: finish boards

This week I spent every day helping Alana with renderings, choosing finishes, ordering samples, laying out 4 finish boards, and getting them all assembled. It was a busy week but it was nice to be able to focus all of my attention to one project and follow it through to the end. Now all that is left to do is ship the boards out to the client! This week the Nashville ID girls got together for dinner at Erin’s and it was good to see everyone and talk about work and what everyone is doing!

On Thursday I went with some girls from the office to Post NeoCon, a vender show of sorts with the local reps showing their latest and greatest products that were featured at NeoCon in Chicago a few weeks ago. Ran into some familiar faces from UT while I was there!

UT students and grads at Post NeoCon

Presentation Techniques and Computer Applications

ESa uses many visuals in presentations to clients including plans and elevations, many times rendered to show finishes; perspectives and animated walkthroughs; and finish boards as well as loose finishes. Early on, sketches, black and white drawings and loose finishes are more common. As the project advances drawings become more detailed, and often rendered. ESa uses many programs to create these visual presentations. They use a lot of Revit, yet some older projects may still be in Microstation. The Adobe programs, Sketchup, Word, Excel, and Bluebeam are also commonly used. Our visual artists that assist in rendering 3D perspectives have a whole other kit of parts that they use.

Isaac HolemanThis is Isaac, a designer at ESa who has been with the company since he graduated from Mississippi State ten years ago. Aside from his design work, Isaac works with Leslie to keep the materials library updated and organized.