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.

Ceramics Elective-Week One

I started my ceramic pieces by choosing two objects to translate. I picked a piece of coral and a bundle of wool, two contrasting objects in both form and texture. I then began to translate the essential properties of the two objects through ink drawings. I also made 3d models made out of wire and paper to describe the properties of the objects.

 

I then used these explorations and applied them to my ceramic pieces. I used the winding, tangled nature of the wool as well as the texture of the coral to create hybrid forms. I made two solid structures that reflect different elements from my objects.   



Print Elective- Week Two

 

This week I looked at moving away from reproducing the road markings and to start to explore the idea of the urban environment in a more subtle way. I wanted to break up the square shape of the prints so I cut up my prints and rearranged them to create a new image. This new image still suggests the idea of the urban environment and still has urban elements within it but it is a more subtle approach to describing the urban environment. I also made prints where I added in extra markings and designs to move away from reproducing my photo reference and to start creating an original image. I also explored dry-point briefly where I looked creating the road markings through line.  

Print Elective- Week One

This week I began investigating my print brief-“Urban (us)” by exploring fundamental elements we associate with the urban environment. Road markings are a common feature of everyday life and are easily associated with our urban existence. I used photographic references to start my prints.

 



 



Bellow you can see a selection of mono-prints based off of my photographs. The first two I used  over lapping layers of ink to create a gritty, urban effect. The lower two I tried to create texture by using thick layers of ink to make the prints.