Introduction Statement

Hello designers,

my name is Katie Rohrbach of Katie Rohrbach Interiors. Ever since I was about seven years old I have been designing interior and exterior spaces. I still hold onto some of the interior space drawings from way back then. My passion for design continued to grow as time passed by. After graduating high school I attended Bellevue College studying photography, art and design for about two years until I transferred to Washington State University to study interior design. Currently I am enrolled at Washington State University as a freshman in the summer program. This opportunity to study at Washington State University means everything to me and I will tell you why. When I was sixteen years old I had a grand mal seizure at one of my friends birthday parties and landed onto a glass/hardwood coffee table. Ever since that fall I have never quite been the same… the fall caused memory loss to come and go with each passing day since the accident. Four years later and I still struggle with remembering how to do certain activities or what I am supposed to do. The one thing that this accident can’t take away from me is my ability to design and create. Although I will have this ‘handicap’ the rest of my life I will always be able to do what I love; design and create. The world around me inspires my designs and I put everything I have into a project no matter how small. I will continue to expand on my understanding and elements in the Interior Design industry on my road to my future career as an Interior designer.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Job Shadow - Starbucks

Since my job shadow did not want us taking pictures during the day as we were shown secret trades of Starbucks I will not be including pictures /sketches in this post to protect their rights as a company. Much respect for Starbucks. After getting off at the wrong stop at the light rail the day was off to a rocky start. But our guide was very understanding and gave of the gist of what we had missed and sent us straight to a tea tasting of a new tea that will be coming out in November and trust me it is to die for, but I degress.
We learned that knowing / learning how to do sketches, and bascially everything by hand is quite a useful skill to have and that we need to keep up the good work.  Knowing computer programs such as sketch up, revit, CAD ,etc is mainly what we will need to be proficient in in order to work well as a design.
We learned alot about the history of Starbucks and went out to the lunch with our guides as well.
Those were mainly the skills we focused on as well as the information they were trying to get across in order to help us in becoming designers.
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