achelor of Science in Interior Design (BSID) students showed off their artistic prowess in FABRICation (innovation through fabrics)through an exhibit along the administrative hall last February 17.

The exhibit highlighted a multifunctional ottoman designed by BSID third-year student Mark Gila Maasin and Philippine Institute of Interior Designer – Student Auxiliary Body (PIID-SAB) president Karen May Cavite for school year 2010-2011.

“Our design has the concept of a beat for a weave, a note for a thread. It has the shape of a drum detailed with musical play of colorful fabrics, and was purposely added with a built-in music player to satisfy the users’ need for music and acquire its therapeutic effects while just sitting on the furniture,” explains Cavite.

It was displayed in a hollow box frame along with four others made up of plywood and ply boards curved on its vertices and had its wall appliqué designed by pairs of second year BSID students featuring the use of fabric decorations.

The collaboration of second year and third year BSID students were participated in by the first year students who worked on the letter models for “FABRICation” made of styrofoam wrapped in silk fabrics.

Originally, there were nine ottoman models made by pairs of BSID thirds year students. Each of which was framed inside the gradient boxes with wall appliqué designed by pairs of second years in individual concepts coherent to the ottoman they house.

These designs was first exhibited with the same name and motif at the Robinson’s Place, Marasbaras last January 24-28 as official entries for a contest organized by the PIID-SAB in celebration with the Interior Design Days 2011.

The designers were free to sell their works of art after the exhibit; thus, the first placer designed on the concept graffiti gone wild by PIID-SAB auditors Catherine Joy Naynos and Aiko Ordovez, and the third placer designed by Jerry Lee Baldago and Dan Dave Lumagbas with a Chuck-Taylor concept was bought by interested customers.

Only the second placer designed by Cavite and Maasin was presented on the second exhibit but was also for sale.