Door Decoration: Hogwarts 9 3/4 Train Ticket

This project involved creating a door decoration to put on residence hall doors that could be personalized to the resident who lived in the room.

The reasons behind creating the door decoration are safety and a visual representation that the room is occupied. When our college campus security needs to know quickly if there is a resident living in a room, they look at the door decoration. It also tells them how many are living in that room.

Custodial staff also know that a room is occupied if they need to key into a room for cleaning purposes.

The inspiration for the door decoration is the Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling. This matches with the Hogwarts Letter door decoration and the Marader's Map bulletin board. Additionally, it matched the Harry Potter Object Drawing whiteboard art.

Hogwarts 9 3/4 train ticket door decoration. Ticket looks like an authentic train ticket from 1991 to Kings Cross Station. Ticket reads: Class: 1st. Ticket type: Super Saver RTN. Adult: One. Child: Nil Single. Year: Y-P 1-September-91. Number: A 73180 068700666M07. From: Kings Cross Platform 9 3/4. Valid: See Restrictions. To: Hogwarts. Route: Not Reading. Min. There is a stamp that reads 713 going vertically below the details of the ticket. There is a second stamp that reads 4778743 going horizontally next to the first stamp. The bottom of the ticket was where the resident’s name was written, reading RA Sunaina.

The first step of the project was to find reference photos. This is how the normal Hogwarts 9 3/4 ticket is stylized:

Hogwarts Platform 9 3/4 stylized ticket.

Photo courtesy of HogwartsRu5h

Photo courtesy of SFAegis

This is the ticket that I based the design off of:

National Rail platform ticket issued for use at London Kings Cross railway station.

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

For this project I created the complete image from scratch based on the reference photo. It made it easier to personalize. Then I downloaded the Harry Potter font for the ticket to add an increase in the whimsy. This is the ticket without the residents' names written on it:

Blank Hogwarts 9 3/4 train ticket door decoration. Ticket looks like an authentic train ticket from 1991 to Kings Cross Station. Ticket reads: Class: 1st. Ticket type: Super Saver RTN. Adult: One. Child: Nil Single. Year: Y-P 1-September-91. Number: A 73180 068700666M07. From: Kings Cross Platform 9 3/4. Valid: See Restrictions. To: Hogwarts. Route: Not Reading. Min. There is a stamp that reads 713 going vertically below the details of the ticket. There is a second stamp that reads 4778743 going horizontally next to the first stamp.

Hogwarts 9 3/4 train ticket door decoration zoomed in on a door. Ticket looks like an authentic train ticket from 1991 to Kings Cross Station. Ticket reads: Class: 1st. Ticket type: Super Saver RTN. Adult: One. Child: Nil Single. Year: Y-P 1-September-91. Number: A 73180 068700666M07. From: Kings Cross Platform 9 3/4. Valid: See Restrictions. To: Hogwarts. Route: Not Reading. Min. There is a stamp that reads 713 going vertically below the details of the ticket. There is a second stamp that reads 4778743 going horizontally next to the first stamp. The bottom of the ticket was where the resident’s name was written, reading RA Sunaina.

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