We were told to create three letter Ds which each reflected a different emotion. To make the letters we only had materials that we had found in or around the university. At first I was quite doubtful that we would be able to make anything out of these materials but I was pleasantly surprised by …
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Building Bridges
In groups we were set the task of building a bridge out of cardboard, elastic bands and bamboo sticks, which a remote control car would have to cross and a “boat” would have to go underneath. We decided to use the cardboard as a base and have bamboo sticks underneath as supports. One issue we …
Spaghetti, glue and balls
We had to make a structure that would be able to hold 3 balls and they couldn’t be touching. To do this we had dry spaghetti and a glue gun. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be as the spaghetti kept snapping and things wouldn’t necessarily stay the way you wanted …
Birthday presents
We were instructed to write down all the birthday presents we had ever had on a big piece of paper. At first I found this really difficult as it was hard to think of presents you got so long ago but once you started it became easier as different things triggered your memory and came …
Continuous line drawing
We made props for the person sitting opposite us then drew them with continuous line as well as not looking. We also did it listening to music changing our pen or mark making tool to match the beat of the music. I liked doing this however I found it difficult to not look at the …
Final piece mock up
I experimented with different things I could make for my final piece. I decided to make a kind of vest garment using my zig zag shapes. I don’t think the mock up looks very good but for the final piece I’ll make it neater and sew all the shapes together.
Life drawing
I really enjoyed our life drawing session. I liked how we started off with quick thirty second drawings just trying to capture the shape of the body and then we gradually built up the time and began to focus more on proportion. I feel like my drawings got a lot better the more we did …
Samples on mannequin
We placed our samples on the mannequin in different ways and photographed it, looking at what looked most effective. I liked the way the shoe mould looked and worked with the body. I also liked how bold and strong the zigzag shape looked, it made a big impact on the body.
Fashion design – samples
The first sample we made was a mould of our shoe, to do this we wrapped masking tape around half the shoe, layering it up until it was thick enough to peel off and keep its shape. We then took a picture from one section of our research, mine was Art Deco, and picked out …
The lift – film review
The lift was a short documentary film based solely in a lift of a block of flats, with the camera man asking the residents questions. It relates to the theme of descent in multiple ways, firstly the lift itself is descending, I really like the shots of the lift shaft as the structure you can …
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