During my time with the Trivallis Media Department I was tasked with designing wall decals and door signs for multiple meeting rooms as part of the re-design of their main offices.

As part of the interior re-design each floor of the building now had an allocated colour. In order to meet RNIB Standards (Royal National Institute for the Blind) each floor of the building consisted of at least 3 colours:- a main floor colour, the Trivallis brand grey and a pure white. These colours were used together to highlight contrasting walls that visually impaired staff and visitors could sufficiently detect the shape and depth of each room using the differences in colour. This use of colour was brought through into my designs making each design match the colour of the floor they were found on.

As a housing association that operates in the Rhonda Cynon Taff area, it was decided that each room would be themed on a recognisable location within the county and the design style is intended to give the viewer a clean and simplistic representation of the landmark. As some of the landmarks selected had undefinable or conflicting edges it was decided that these designs would fit to the edges of the wall space so that they could be scaled and cropped where necessary. Each wall decal is accompanied by a small description of the location and the landmark shown.

To accompany each wall decal most rooms needed a door sign as well. Due to the signs being substantially smaller than the wall decals it was impractical to scale down the detail of the wall designs, therefore I designed a logo-like representation of each location instead and only used the grey and white colours.

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The first two meeting rooms to be designed were for the top floor of the building, the orange floor, and is home to the Organisation Development team. As a main part of the business, and as the floor was previously unoccupied, it was the first to be renovated. 

This first meeting room is based on a set of bridges found in Pontypridd town centre. The taller and older bridge, built by William Edwards in 1756, is a grade 1 listed building, and was joined by its counterpart in 1857 to provide better transport for goods.

I think that this design is one of the most iconic in the set as the circle designs in the stonework make it easily recognisable. I particularly like how the person in the centre of the design is both framed by the bridges and provides scale for them in turn. The contrasting door sign uses a side view of the bridge to create design that utilises the same recognisable circles found in the bridge's side.

The second room on this floor was based on the Miners Memorial Stature in Llwynypia. The statue was created in 1993 by Welsh sculptor Robert Thomas to commemorate the multiple mining communities in the Rhondda valleys and featured a miner, his wife and their baby. 

Unlike the more geometric shapes of the Pontypridd bridges the natural forms and folds of the clothing needed more detail to represent the sculpture. However we decided to remove the detail from the faces to reinforce the commemoration of the mining communities. The contrasting sharp colour outline provided a crisp base for the darker details and linked to the door sign design.

The fourth floor was the last floor to be renovated and therefore saw the most changes to my original designs. One of my favourite features of this floor is that the deep red colour scheme matches the real colour of the chosen landmarks.

Based on the Rhondda Heritage Park found in Trehafod, this meeting room was one of the last to be completed after I left Trivallis and therefore the design has seen the most change. As you can see from my design development (shown bellow) I had created an image that concentrated on the wheel tower and its intricate metalwork, keeping it thinner and box shaped for placement on the smaller back wall. Since my departure from Trivallis it was decided to place the design on the contrasting righthand wall, requiring it to be larger and longer than my designs. The surrounding buildings and accompanying detail were created by the talented team at Trivallis and add context to a design that would have otherwise been lost on the larger wall. While the colour scheme was not my responsibility I am eager to point out that the real tower is also painted a dark red.

Just like the other design on this floor the landmark's real colour matches the design's colour, in this case in the form of the red bricks that make the Welsh Hills Works gate. This Design fitted nicely in the shape of the room, ideal when knowing that the landmark is actually crowded by encroaching buildings and trees. While the door and wall decal closely match, the wall decal needed some extra details to emphasise the brickwork. Adding spots of darker bricks and highlighting important pieces of the gate gave the design a more 3D aspect. Similar to the Rhonda Heritage Park meeting room this decal was also finalised by the Trillavlis media team, adding aspects of white, altering some colours and perfecting its placement and scale.

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The 3rd floor, otherwise known as the purple floor, only has 1 meeting room and was actually among the first to be renovated. 

This room is based on the Caer Rocks, a rock formation of that rest at the crest of a hill above Llanharan and has the words "God Is Love" carved into the stone. Although there are a few different legends about the rocks the most commonly accepted one is that a father brought his sick daughter to the rocks everyday to breath the fresh air while he carved "Dduw cariad yw" into the rocks. When he was finished carving she was cured.

This design presented a few challenges as the rock outline provided few obvious details and failed to make the design recognisable. To make the stone shape more obvious I added some of the cracks and lines that were visible in the stone. We also decided to use two shades of colour on the background shape so that more depth was perceivable. The end result of this design is rather impactful and makes a big difference to the room. This design specifically connected with Trivallis as the original photo was taken by a staff member who visited the landmark.

The last meeting room that I helped design is located on the first floor, the blue floor.

Level 1 - Penrhys 

Unlike the other meeting rooms this room was made of glass and gave us an opportunity to use its depth and perspectives in the design. The landmark chosen was the Lady of Penrhys, a statue that represents an old fable of the area. After researching the area I found that the stature rests on the edge of a hillside and is surrounded by an old stone wall. To recreate this it was decided that the design of the statue would rest on the back wall while a stone wall would be placed on the glass surrounding wall. This gave the closest representation of the statue's real location. Due to the wall design being clearly visible from outside the room, a door sign only needed the name and not another vector decal. As this design was finalised after my departure, the Trivallis team added finishing pieces such as the shadows on the statue, the grey hillside and the spots of grass.

This project is one of my favourite so far and I would like to thank Trivallis and all it's staff for letting me be a part of it. 

Finally please visit my projects page to see my work on the Trivallis reception area.