Week 4-3D/Spatial Design

On our first day in 3D/Spatial we spent the morning researching about 3D designers, from areas such as the Bauhaus, which i have included in a post below.

We then spent the afternoon learning about and getting to grips with one point and two point perspective, which i enjoyed as i hadnt done it before, however i did find it quite difficult to draw anything other than square shapes, but i think after more practice i would probably be able to change that and improve what i can do.

One point perspective is when everything 'dissapears' into one point on the page and two point is when everything dissapears into two points on the page.

On our second day in 3D we spent the morning mainly drawing. We had to draw an object as a line with no tone as all, just the lines. We then had to do the same in ink. For this activity Richard gave us objects that we werent neccessarily familiar with, so we were really observing them and not just making them up. I enjoyed doing this with the pencil as i am a bit of a neat freak and this work looked very neat. However i didnt enjoy working with the ink as i felt that everything i made just looked like a mess and didnt look like anything good, however this did end up giving me inspiration for what we did later on.

In the afternoon we started working in more of a 3D way, producing 3D designs that were inspired by our drawings. I decided to work with the dents that were in the peg i had drawn earlier.Afterwards i started working with Jo on a shape that she wanted to create, which was inspired by a bell shape. We created this by starting with a pattern that was the same as a sleeve pattern, which i was familiar with after doing my textiles A Level.

On the final day we used the laser cutter to create some kind of object inspired by what we had started the day before. Katy and I decided to work with the shapes i had created the day before but make them into circles instead and attach them in somwe way. We first did a prototype with 4 circles to make sure that it would actually work how we wanted it too. When we had done this we moved onto the computer to create our design for our laser cut piece. However, we could only have an A3 piece of polypropaline, so we had to make sure that our circles fit onto this. We decided to cut out 6 circles as we thought this would make a more interesting shape compared to 4 circles. Again i have added a photo in of what the finished product looked like.

We thought that the product could be an interesting lamp shade or a cover for a lantern.

I didnt really enjoy the 3D week at first as, like i have said, i didnt enjoy working with the ink and couldnt seem to get anything out of it, however, when it came to doing the 3D work i enjoyed it a lot more as this is what i enjoy doing and seeing the final product definitely made it worth while.

3D Design-Bauhaus

Bauhaus

Bauhaus started off as an art and design school in Germany and was shut down because of the Gestapo group, as they said that the school was too ‘un-german’.  It was one of the first Art & Design schools and their main goal was to prove that design doesn’t have to be ordinary and boring.

The Bauhaus had lots of influences on designers even after they had shut down. In 2011, Walter Isaacson’s biography even said that Steve Jobs was influenced by the Bauhaus movement when designing his products for Apple, even though it is around 80 years later. In fact, a product that Bauhaus designed-the door knob, apparently has some of the same design DNA as the iPhone 4S, which proves you can take inspiration from something and turn it into something completely different.

Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer studied and then worked at Bauhaus in the 1920’s, before moving on to Berlin to design houses and commercial spaces. He firstly liked to work with steel tubing, although later he went on to work with wood, and this is where his famous chair design came from.

This chair is known as the Wassily Chair and is one of Marcels most famous designs, which he designed while he was still a teacher at Bauhuas.

I like this chair because even though it was made a number of decades ago it still looks modern and like it was designed a few years ago. I also like how the fabric on it will make it comfy so it can be sat on for a while but there is a minimal amount so that the metal tubes are still the main bit, because this is what Marcel worked in mostly at this period. I also like it because it reminds me of a deck chair, which make me think of summer and summer is always a happy time, so even though it is done in black and silver and these are very cool colours the chair could still be used outside in the summer for things like barbeques

Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius started his career in the 1920’s when he became the director of Bauhaus. When he was forced out of Berlin he moved to America, only coming back to Berlin to do one last piece of work, which caused controversy again, just like Bauhaus had done.

 

 

This sofa was designed by Walter Gropius in 1920, so before he started working at Bauhaus. I really like this sofa because of how in the future it would have been when it was designed. This actually reminds me of something that would have been in ‘Back to the Future’ when they go to the future, because it seems really modern and really ahead of its time. I like the fact that people would still have this in their house now and wouldn’t think twice about it. Some people say that Walters work is really simple and that’s why they don’t like it but I don’t think this is simple at all, it isn’t just a normal everyday sofa, the arms are completely different and the colours, even though they are just black and white are very unique too.

Josef Hartwig

I like this chess set that was designed by Josef Hartwig who worked for Bauhaus because it is completely different from what I have seen before. Whenever I think of chess I think of traditional pieces that are all carved into certain shapes. I also like this because it sort of makes chess simple, because the pieces indicate the moves that the pieces can do, for example the square indicates that it can go up, down, left and right while the cross shape indicates that it can go diagonal

Week 3-Fashion

For our first day in fashion Sue asked us to bring a long sleeved shirt in. With this she told us she wanted us to put it on in an interesting way, e.g. upside down and back to front. This was so we could get an idea of different sillhouettes and shapes a garment could create.

She then asked us to fold the shirt into interesting flat shapes. Here i have added in what i came up with.

She asked us to pick one of the shapes and then trace it onto paper ande then cut it out. This became our basis for creating shapes on the mannequin.We then started pinning the paper onto the model to create shapes that werent neccessarily like anything that could be worn but but that could be the starting point for something interesting and/or wearable. Here is what i came up with:

Sue also asked us to pin the shapes onto the wall, add to it and then move it back to the mannequin but just sort of drop it on to the model to see what this created. However i found this very difficult and just couldnt picture anything in my head, so i didnt get anything out of this and quickly went back to the model. I was quite dissapointed in myself that i couldnt work like this but i do believe it is a very unique way of working and may only work for certain people.

I then came up with a shape that i really liked:

I thought this shoulder piece was a good starting point for something more so i started adding bits to it. I crumpled the paper i was adding to give it more texture and to match the shoulder piece, which was crumpled from how much work i had done to it and how much i had moved it around. After adding more and more pieces this is what i came up with:

I thought this could look really nice added onto a bodycon dress, to make it stand out more and look more unique.

On our third day we spent it mainly designing and getting our 3d design down onto 2d, on paper. I didnt draw my design as an actual garment but spent the day drawing it in different ways and styles just to see what it looked like as an illustration:

I also did a couple of collages to see what my design would look like in this style too:

I really loved the fashion week as this is what i have always loved doing and i definitely know i want to do this as my specialist subject.

Week 2-Textiles

On the first and second day in textiles we made drawings that we would later use for inspiration for our final piece of work.
We created images by drawing with our eyes closed, with our opposite hands and also with sticks and ink. We had short amounts of time so we couldnt get the images perfect and precise, even when we were drawing with our correct hand. Here i have added some images of what i created in these sessions.

On the afternoon of teh second day we created some monoprints using our images that we had previously done. I enjoyed doing this but after a while i got a bit fed up because they didnt look how i wanted them too and i couldnt figure out how to do it, but i did produce some okay prints.

Our final day was a lot more independent as we were creating something on our own. I liked this day most because of this. We had to create two pieces of work on a strip of cartridge paper, using inspiration from the images we had made previously. We made these completely with paper and ink, paint or pencil.
We then designed a square using the same method but with fabric this time.

I think this week was okay but it was a bit samey, as the first 2 days seemed to be full of the same thing and i didnt really understand why we were doing it but when it got to the final stage it did make more sense.

Photography

During this week we did work with different cameras to produce our own photos and we also did some work in the dark room to develop some of our photos and also to produce photo grams.

On our first day we started off by looking at a slide show of photographers from which we had to pick 3 to do some research about. We also did this at the start of every other morning, you can see the 9 photographers i picked in previous posts. We then each got an old camera and learnt how it worked, how to put the film in and also how to focus properly to get the best pictures possible. We then went out and took 6 pictures each, as there was a limit on how many the film could hold.
In the afternoon we developed our film in the dark room. To do this we put the film in a container that light couldn't enter and then we soaked the film in developer, stop chemical and a fixer. This made the images come out so we could see them on the film and also made them insensitive to light.
We then had to let these dry so we made some photo grams. This involved us putting images on top of photographic paper and exposing them to a light source for a certain amount of time, you can see some of the photo grams i made below.

On the second day we used a modern day digital camera to take 'observational' pictures. We had all morning to do this as Andy wanted a big variety of pictures from us. In the afternoon we went into the computer suite and edited our photos to make them look as good as possible. We used photo shop to do this. We then made our photos into a power point, which has been posted below.

On our third and final day we first developed our photos that we had made into a film on the first day. To do this we shone the film down onto photographic paper for a certain amount of time, so the picture would transfer onto the paper. We then developed them so that they were visible. Before we did every photo we did a test strip to see how much time each photo would need to look its best and also show all the detail. Here i have added in the pictures i developed.

In the afternoon we created light pictures, which i have uploaded below. To do this we had to leave the shutter open on the camera so that it would pick up all the light, as we moved around with torches.

I found the photography week very interesting as i had never done anything to do with photography before so it was definitely a week of learning for me. I don't think i would choose to specialise in it as it is not my strong point but it was definitely good for me to learn about it all as i may need to use it in the area i specialise in.

Steven Klein, Robert Doisneau & Henri Cartier Bresson



Steven Klein

I really like the face on this photo because it looks like a monster that should live in the sea, it actually reminded me of something you would see in Scooby Doo. I liked how intricate the design on the face was and then while the outfit is still detailed when it is placed so close to the face it looks simplified. I also liked how the background was so simple compared to the model, as it is just a grey-purple colour. I also liked how the face stood out because it is made up mostly of blue, gold and then obviously the bright red eyes while the rest of the image is made up of cool purple tones, so i think that even if the make up wasnt so stand outish and bright and detailed, it would still stand out more than everythigng else.



Robert Doisneau
I liked this image because it is completely controvesial to what people normally think of when they think of the Eiffel Tower and Paris, because people normally think of Paris as being a highly cultural place but this photo is showing something completely different from that, to me it is showing fun and relaxation, with the boys jumping into the water and then the other people sat around it. I also like how a boy jumping into the water has been captured rather than them just sat above the water, as it kind of shows the activity in action. I also liked how the background, to me, looks like block colours, with the water being a dark grey. the stairs and sky being lighter and then the eiffel tower is almost black, i like this because it doesnt take the attention away from the people in the foreground.

Henri Cartier Bresson
I liked this image because the stairs reminded me of something like aztec patterns, but it is obviously not in an aztec country, so it shows a bit of contrast and mixture between two cultures. I also like how different the stairs are to normal stairs that everyone sees everyday that are just straight up straight down, as these have lots of bends and curves in them.

LIGHT PHOTOS!!!