SOI

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Repetition and New Varieties

Using normal day-to-day objects, we are about to create something NEW. for this project I used nuts and bolts, colorful yarn, wire, plastic crystals and glue.

Part I

Making connections: Develop three joint systems

My laptop has crashed recently and I lost some photos of the initial joint systems. Gladly there are the drawing which are nonetheless accurate and realistic.

Part II

After completing three joint systems, I did some visual research on growth. I found the growth of cactus interesting. There are many varieties and I used collaging to combine the three joined systems as well as exploring different types of growth.

Part III

Looking at the collages I began to make the actual composition using the materials I had. I first made many sub-element, consisting of a few screws with different colored yarn with varying joining methods. The linkage between each sub-element raised some difficulty. I ended up using the wire and crystals, as one is thin and the other transparent. The result resembles the quality of the collage because it seems that each element is faintly connected to one another.

I grouped the sub-elements into another sub-element which form the new structure. They can be arranged in infinite(well almost) ways to create different combinations.

Part IV
Final products in different environments

Even though the materials are all manmade but the structure itself has organic qualities. I had the idea of photographing them against rocks. I also found the grain of wood add to the texture and organic quality so I incorporated both. I did not stack the elements together in this photo because I wanted to make them look as if they are gems/jewels discovered in nature, in between the cracks of rocks or wood. The the colors of the jewel become even more vibrant against the neutral colored rocks.

Walking around, I saw this structure on a playground, I had no idea what it was for. But I though it's a perfect holder for the pieces, so I placed them on there and took the pictures. I found it suitable for its vibrant colors, and metal - all parallel to my structure

Also found an very interesting turtle made of metal. My structure had shared the same component - the screws. Aslo it juxtaposes nature and manmade - the theme of my structure. Both are organic, yet had a very industrial look.

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Quick 2D-3D Exercise

In the beginning of week 10 class, we did a quick exercise with sheet material to create 3-D structures. They were required to have different qualities and here are the results.

Dense/Layered Structure

Textured/Decorative

Open/Permeable

2D-3D Emerging Formations

The process and the end result are both important for a designer. Usually the process involves problem-solving which can lead to a quite linear route and limit creativity. However, for this exercise and the following project, Jacqui tries to teach us a new creative process, which is a series of steps that form the end product rather than predicting the outcome first. It is rather spontaneous yet you can create "rules" or limitations that help to define the final product at the same time.

So the first step was to create some drawings using ink and markers. Listening to the music I made spontaneous random lines, shapes, volumes, and forms (pictured above).

Second, I made collage of the drawings and combined the formal elements in to one. When making these, I identified qualities that were present in the drawings such as structural, fragile, intricate, calm, chaotic, and coarse/rough.

Photocopies of the collages (above) are made to be worked into 3-D mauettes (Below)

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

how beautiful!

Janie Taylor, one of the world’s finest pointe performers (whose haunting beauty has been likened to a Hitchcockian Grace Kelly) enlisted choreographer and fellow New York City Ballet principal dancer Justin Peck to breathe life into Hannah MacGibbon’s ballerina-inspired Chloé collection.(The Block MagazineX NOWNESS)

some stills