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 Marauder's Map bulletin board and the 9 3/4 Train Ticket door decoration. Additionally, it matched the Harry Potter Object Drawing whiteboard art.
The first step of the project was to find reference photos. Instead, I found this free template for a party favor that I then chose to edit.