Poster Design- Week Three

This week I began to develop two concepts and began thumbnails for my poster design. One of my concepts was creating a figure out of rubber bands and stretching the limbs in an exaggerated manner to portray the rubber bands elastic quality. The other concept was to make star out of rubber bands by manipulating the rubber bands. As a star is a special and celebratory symbol it would fit in well in celebrating an everyday object.  

Poster Design- Week Two

This week I began to experiment with the elastic band as a material. I made three dimensional structures and designs with the rubber bands. I discovered I could manipulate the elastic band into different shapes and designs. Seeing as I can manipulate the elastic bands into multiple shapes I may use this to create an image for my poster.  I also continued to develop visual concepts.

Poster Design- Week One

This week we began a new brief entitled “Celebration of Everyday Objects”. In this brief we were given an everyday object to celebrate my object being the elastic band. We were asked to look at the salient properties of the object and create a poster that celebrated those properties. I began this brief by researching the origins of the elastic band. It was invented in 1845 by Stephen Perry and it was originally used to hold documents or paper together. I then thought of the many different other uses of a rubber band as well as the physical properties of the band to begin developing the concept for my poster.

Typeography Week Three

 

This week I designed and made my final piece for the three dimensional alphabet. The concept is a stack of A4 paper in the shape of an “A” that is slowly being shredded. The shredding communicates the state of the nation at the present time. I also experimented more with materials as seen from the above images.  

Typeography Week Two

This week I continued my exploration of materials based around the word audit. I also began to explore creating fully three dimensional letter-forms. I think the visual image of shredded paper effectively portrays a lot of the problems we associate with the state of the nation today. As seen from the image below a solid, three dimensional “A” that is in the process of being shredded signifies the economic and social situation we are in presently. I will continue to develop this concept and create a finished piece from it.   

Typeography Week One

This week I started a new typography brief entitled “State of the Nation”. The premise of the brief is we are all give a letter of the alphabet and based on the letter we must come up with a word that reflects the state of the nation. The letter form must both portray the word as well as the words connection to the state of the nation. As seen from the images below the letter form I picked was “A”. I started my research with a mind map and I also went through a dictionary and picked out all the words starting with “A” that had associations with the state of the nation. The word I decided on was “Audit”. I then began looking at the structure of the letter-form “A” as well as typeface references. I then began to explore concepts and visual imagery associated with the word audit. I also gathered material associated with the word audit and began experimenting with those materials to make letter-forms.      

Ceramics Elective- Week 2

 

This week we learned a series of different firing techniques, raku, naked raku and electric firing. Before you fire a piece we had to dip it into glaze or paint the glaze on with a brush. The ceramics were then placed in the kiln and fired to the appropriate temperature so that the glaze fused with the ceramics. The ceramics are then taken out of the kiln still hot and placed in saw dust to cool, also any area left unglazed will be marked by the smoke. When the ceramics have cooled enough they are then placed in a bucket of water to cool further. The ceramics are now able to be handled and we were then able to clean the ceramics and add any finishing touches.     



Below is a selection of my finished pieces. You can see a sequential development in the form I have been using and you can also see my use of hybrid forms and textures.