VISUAL DESIGNER

ryman healthcare limited (2021-2025)

During 2021 I started at Ryman Healthcare as a Visual Designer. My role entails producing visual sales material for retirement villages across Ryman's local and international catalogue. I learn and apply skills in 2D/3D design, cross-team collaboration and efficient communication. These skills elevated me into a versatile hybrid team player capable of utilising a broadrange of design and productivity software. (Revit, 3DS Max, Enscape, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, and Procore)

My main responsibility is delivering 'sales releases' (a curated package of visual plans including floor, level, site, electrical and interior joinery plans for specific units at a village). I often produce elevations and 3D rendered images of interior kitchens and bathrooms as an additional component in a 'sales release' so that prospective buyers are supplied with a full suite of information for a unit (ie townhouse) that they are interested in purchasing. During my time at Ryman I have been responsible for releasing over 400 townhouses / apartments for sale across the entire catalogue of villages.

VISUAL FLOOR PLAN - TOWNHOUSE - PATRICK HOGAN RETIREMENT VILLAGE
VISUAL FLOOR PLAN - TOWNHOUSE - PATRICK HOGAN RETIREMENT VILLAGE

Collaborating and communicating are vital to my growth into a strong visual designer at Ryman Healthcare. For example, when producing the 'sales release' for Nellie Melba Retirement Village - Independent Apartment - Stage 4 I liased with the Australian interior design team frequently to assist with the production of visual kitchen plans, elevations, and renders as they could verify the accuracy of my dimensions and imagery with the final construction on-site. I could easily make adjustments to any feedback they provided.

VISUAL PLAN - KITCHEN - NELLIE MELBA RETIREMENT VILLAGE
VISUAL ELEVATION 1 - KITCHEN - NELLIE MELBA RETIREMENT VILLAGE
VISUAL FLOOR PLAN - INDEPENDENT APARTMENT - NELLIE MELBA RETIREMENT VILLAGE
VISUAL LEVEL PLAN - INDEPENDENT APARTMENT - NELLIE MELBA RETIREMENT VILLAGE

Landscaping is a core visual element of a visual plan. I proposed a revised landscape style to the wider design team and establish an efficient process for creating the landscape graphic that is easily adaptable to all scale of projects for visual plans in 'sales releases'. Designing the revised landscape style had many challenges, for example, ensuring landscape components such as trees and grass worked in unison. I tested them different combinations with swatches. Making changes based on feedback from the wider team. I ensured that landscaping didn’t draw attention away from site infrastructure on the plan. This task evolved into a fulltime production role of this new style of landscape plans for new villages.

This process elevated my skills in 3DS Max and helped me become a more versatile team member that is confident in 3D workloads. Overall, this development project was highly successful and this revised style is now utilised across all visual plans for new villages.

VISUAL LANDSCAPING DEVELOPMENT - SITE PLAN - PATRICK HOGAN RETIREMENT VILLAGE

Ryman’s refurbishment villages are located throughout New Zealand and vary in scale and design. Often, sales plans are non-existent for refurbishment villages due to their age. A complete sales plan package is required for future sales after refurbishment of older villages. My role involved identifying opportunities within Ryman’s refurbishment villages to upgrade or create new sales material using the latest processes for sales plan creation. When creating the Anthony Wilding sales site plan, I confirmed that all paths, roads, and unit numbers were correct in Revit and that all correct work-sets were activated before progressing the plan creation in InDesign. Further checks of Revit files mitigated any errors with the release and ensured all info on the plan is accurate.

VISUAL SITE PLAN - REFURB VILLAGE - ANTHONY WILDING

The design team's goal was creating virtual walkthroughs of village townhouses available online to prospective buyers. I was involved in the software testing of Everpano an application that turned panoramic renders into interactive walkthroughs. The virtual townhouses needed to evoke the feeling that a completed unit would give the resident while navigating it in reality. Challenges were ensuring accurate lighting and a balanced level of decoration and furniture to not overshadow the underlying design of the townhouse which I achieved through trial and error as well as feedback sessions with design leads. Primarily, I completed the furnished 3D models of the townhouses in 3DS Max and rendered the panoramas of the interiors. Ultimately, I achieved realistic, bright and aesthetically grabbing final images to be used in the final application.

EVERPANO - PANORAMIC RENDER - TOWNHOUSE BEDROOM
EVERPANO - PANORAMIC RENDER - TOWNHOUSE LIVING ROOM

Patrick Hogan Retirement Village had frequent structural and layout changes throughout it’s early stages of design and this meant I needed to ensure that I captured these on my sales plans. Through utilising Revit and 3DS Max, I created accurately annotated visual plans, elevations, and renders of the bespoke laundry layouts featured in Patrick Hogan Village’s townhouses. Joinery variations and mirroring exist between units and I needed to ensure that the plans I created referenced all layouts which I achieved with tracking my progress through check-lists and schedules which I shared with the sales to team to support them with selling the units. I built the interior laundry scene in 3DS Max, applied realistic materials and lighting for an accurate rendered representation of the final interior space.

This page is a collection of assorted tasks that sit within my workload, however, I also regularly work on refurbishment village floor plans, emergency, utility and liquor licence plans. Wayfinding fly-throughs using Enscape and more. My role at Ryman varies and their are different design tasks to challenge myself daily. All work present on this page has been used with permission from Ryman Healthcare Ltd. Thank you for your time.

VISUAL PLAN AND ELEVATION - LAUNDRY - TOWNHOUSE
3DS - LAUNDRY RENDER - TOWNHOUSE