Flower Garden

illustration for interactive installation

In 2018 VTPro Design, an interactive design company in LA, commissioned me to illustrate and design the flora for this robotic installation they were preparing for Google’s IO 2018 conference.

Concept

Since this was going to be a robotic installation the idea was to have 3 types of flora to perform different functions. The first - flowers that would open and close and change colors based on people’s moods, the second - flowers that would track people as they were walking by, and the third - inactive decorative flora and foliage.

After researching the floral world I found a rule that is dividing flowers into two different categories - monocots and dicots. Monocots have petals multiplying in three, while the dicots - in many. Monocots have simplified leaves, while dicots’ leaves separate in multiple directions, and etc.* This served perfectly for distinguishing the two different floral families with the two different functions they were performing!

Process

After the concept was established I dived into designing the appearance of the flowers. Having the idea about the petals and the leaf construction I opted for a few versions of each flower family.
Below you can see some concepts and designs for the foliage category as well.