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 Lord of the Rings book series by J.R.R. Tolkien. This matches the Arkenstone door decoration, where am I board, and the duty board, and The One Ring whiteboard art.
For this project I found a photo online of the One Ring and edited it to Include the residents' names. Here is the original photo:
This is the blank version of the photo:
I downloaded the font that matched the photo and edited it to mimic the look of glowing.