These are slides featuring my design work during and post college. They range from interior design to stage set design and include my artistic sketching and rendering techniques.

1. Design Portfolio
Featuring the past projects of Dana Gordon, 2008 graduate of
Samford University

2. “A Piece of My Heart” tells the
story of six American nurses and
the experiences they had during
the Vietnam War. These nurses
are in a direct relationship with the
audience. They have a great,
urgent need to tell their stories,
and it is from this urgent need to
communicate that the style of the
play evolves. The set for the play
itself is a presentational-style
piece. All design elements in the
set therefore conform to this
style. Nothing in the text is
directly illustrated but instead is
abstractly or suggestively shown.

3. Inspiration

4. Inspiration

5. Inspiration

6. Collage of Considered
Idea for Brick Texture Materials

7. The Space
The play was held in the
Bolding Studio within the
Leslie Wright Center on
Samford’s Campus. The
space presented challenges for
an effective set design not just
for it’s small stage size (33 by 17
feet), but because part of the
set had to be mobile in order to
be stored away during the day.
The stage was used during the
day for choir and piano
rehearsals by the music
department.

8. First Rough Sketches

9. and
Once I had the idea of intersecting platforms of different sizes and levels, the biggest challenge was creating a 3D model and
construction documents-in that order. A program called Sketch-Up greatly helped me with putting together my idea for
documents- Sketch-
what the set would actually look like once completed. From there, I was able to obtain measurements within the computer to
then help me develop plans in Auto Cad to aid the builders of the set.

10. Rendered Floor Plan

11. The Amazing Process!

12. The Two Primary Paint Colors “Flogging” the Ground Cloth
The Amazing Process!

13. The Amazing Process!

14. The Amazing Process!

15. The Amazing Process!

16. The View from On Set

17. Show Time!

18. Show Time!

20. AutoCad Sketches
for Flats
Similar to my previous
design project, the stage
space for the Birmingham
Festival Theatre was also
small, roughly the same size
as Bolding Studio. For
this project, I was mainly
dealing with layouts for flats
to create an interior home
scene, which would be styled
according to the early
1900’s. As you can see,
three doors were used…one
for the front door and two
for the bedroom doors.

21. Floor Plan

22. Rendered Flat Elevation

23. Completed Set

24. Show Time!

25. Show Time!

27. The Alexander Looby Theatre with Flat Locations

28. Rendered Flat Elevations

29. Close-
Close-up of Block Print for Wallpaper

30. The Building Process

31. The Building Process

32. The Building Process

33. The Completed Set

34. Samples of Interior Design Work
Pieces from Throughout College

35. Chiropractor Office Project

36. Brazilian Restaurant Project

37. Beach Condo Project

38. Perspectives for Beach Condo Project

39. Furniture and Millwork Project

40. Painting Projects