Created as a design proposal that featured urban-surfaces and street-furniture derived from vernacular color studies of the Chelsea District of NYC. Done in Kevin Byrne’s Visual Thinking course at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2008-2010

1. Vernacular Chelsea,
Color Study: New York
Visual Thinking Spring 2009 Nicholas Kriegler

6. Corner on 8th Ave

7. 144 8th Ave

8. 74 8th Ave

9. Corner on 8th Ave
144 8th Ave
74 8th Ave

10. Kobayashi
Connotations
Natural
Youthful

12. The yellow has a natural connotation;
It lines the interior of the stop frame
so it isn’t as visable as the outside
blue. This keeps the bus stop from
being jarring against the frequent red
buildings, or blending in with the
frequent yellow.
The gray of the metal frame
gives the design a modern feel,
while framing the blue and
yellow which echo the original
colors of many of the older
buildings in Chelsea.
The blue has a casual, youthful connotation; Chelsea is known for
being the home of the most dense young homosexual population in
Manhattan. I used only two colors with gray because I wanted to sort
of metaphor the neighborhood’s old architecture, but make it look
modernized; From expirimentation with colors, three or four different
colors made it look overly youthful; almost like a children’s bedroom.

13. Chelsea, New York is natural, youthful, and casual. The bus shelter
i’ve designed reflects this, and references some of the past architecture from
Chelsea, while maintaining a modern aesthetic.
This assingment furthered my knowledge in color theory, and also
forced me to think about presentation and reason in color choices. I think it
was a good excersice in presenting personal design while reflecting purpose
and reason.