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The day before yesterday was a movie day. My boyfriend and I went to the movie theater since a lot of great movies premiered on Christmas day. We chose to watch Valkyrie, since usually movies that are based on true stories are the best. We enjoyed it, bu it wasn’t something outstanding like we hoped it would be. After the movie ended we started going towards the exit and than we saw that another movie is about to start The Tale of Despereaux. Again, it was a cute movie but we agreed that it’s one of those movies for kids, not like other animation movies that are also fit for adults.

That was just a little review for you guys, and now I’ll continue my Interior Design journey. Now, if you remember the last post I uploaded my admission portfolio. Don’t get scared about the elevations you see there you don’t have to have those in your portfolio. But I’m going to talk about it next time, now I’ll explain the home test.

The first one is another essay you need to write. This time you should include in it: why you chose FIT, your career goals, and what do you think Interior Design is all about. My only and the most important advise is not to tell them how since you were a baby you dreamed, ate, and breathed FIT. It won’t work! everybody write about it.. And they know how good they are, they wont to hear about you!!!

The second home test is to sketch a room or a floor plan. If you are good in drawing, go ahead and choose the room sketch since it will be more colorful and show your talent. If not, the floor plan is the better choice for you. Don’t be scared, floor plans are easy you just need to know how to do it in scale. That was my problem, I came from the metric system and inches made no sense to me. (Plus, if you’ll keep reading the blog I’ll explain later on more about scale and floor plans).

The third one is to sketch a piece of furniture that you find interesting. I think for this you need to go online and look for something that catches your eye, don’t worry if it has a real purpose or not, they are just going to ask you why you chose this, and why you find it interesting. With the piece I chose I think you can see why I chose it…

The final and I believe the most important test is to design a functional object or a piece of furniture by relating it to an artist, or it’s better to say to an artists work. You don’t know any artist? That’s fine. I didn’t know anyone ether. What I decided to do is to go to Wikipedia and looked for a list of architects or designers, than I went one by one and googled them. After a long search I found an Architect I really liked her style; Patricia Urquiola Bergere. It’s important to explain to the people who interview you how do you think you portrayed the artist of your choice style and how it comes through. In my case, as you may see at first sight the picture and the drawings are not similar at all, but I wanted not to portray only that particular chandelier but the general style of Patricia, which is traditional with touches of modern. Like the chandelier, the piece itself and its lines are very traditional, but the material and colors are the most modern you can get.