Filed under: Assignments, Music - final semester | Tags: acetate, bangle, bangle stack, cross stitch sheet, design, experiment, iron on interfacing, keyboard, keys, material, music, notes, pattern, polypropylene sheet, positive and negative, resin, sheet music, spotlight
These are some of the forms I came up with in response to my concept. They are all based on the keyboard, and either 52 white notes or 88 black and white notes. I will show in another post how I applied the different muscial eras to these designs.
This image fans out really nicely when it is on the wrist – but as I am working with polypropylene sheet it doesn’t translate well into the thicker material.
This image above is an experiment with iron on interfacing and acetate.
I thought about doing a stack lot of bangles – either 52 or 88.
This idea of holding the translated sheet music pattern with a bangle is something I am currently working on.
This was an experiment with resin and cross stitch sheet, or something of the type from spotlight. The resin fills in the holes – It can create this really interesting positive negative image if there is a sheet underneath. If I work more on this I will get some images up.
Filed under: Assignments, Music - final semester | Tags: beat, design, George Gershwin, keyboard, line, music, point, Prelude II
I’ve been looking at ways that I can visually interpret sheet music from my listed posse. This is one I am quite happy with but.. to represent a whole piece of music this way is going to be huge. I’ll work it out though.
I will try and explain this design. What I am hoping to work on is the keyboard. 88 keys need to be fit into each little panel.
In this picture I have looked at a few bars from George Gershwin’s Prelude II. I have the keyboard face with all the keys on it and I have seperated it into how many beats are in each bar in this particular piece of music. Then from the piece of music I place the notes written on the keys that are actually played and the timing in which they are in each bar. I hope that makes sense.
I traced the initially drawing and got this interesting line and point type design. Which again can be related back to a piece of music. What do you think?
This is just an image of the keyboard with the line and point design. Let me know what you think! K.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, vanity set | Tags: art deco, box, circles, colour, design, eye wash shower thingy-majig, femininity, geometric, geometry, guilding metal, inspired, material, motif, pattern, saw pierce, silver plated, soldered, style, symmetry
It is past twelve and I left uni about an hour ago. It’s been a very long day, not to mention trying to guilding metal leaf my eye balls (don’t worry fellow workshopers, I used the eye wash shower thingy-majig – Refreshing!)
I am extremely tired but I am going to post some images even if it kills me, so you’d better look at them.
This is after I soldered the box together. It is very dirty I know – once these are complete I am getting them silver plated. Well, that is the plan. I would love for them to be plated and complete for asessment, that would make me very happy.
This is the brush inside the box after I had filed all the edges smooth. You can see on the straight side, the wall is not straight through the differences in colour. That is where I have filed but the material is dinted – so that is something I need to fix.
This is the motif I have designed to use and saw pierce for the back plate that close the boxes. It is art deco inspired, with the symmetry and pattern. I think using the circles makes it more delicate and feminine, relating it back to the original objects that inspired me to make these pieces. Art deco is a style I am particularly fond of – and I think my own style reflects that as an influence.
K.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, vanity set | Tags: boxes, brush, design, guilding metal, mirror, shape, soldering, vanity set
I’ve started making the boxes that the brush and mirror will be in. Here is a few photos of the process.
You will see in the pictures me using the image in the previous post to match up the shape to the design.
In this picture you can see that I have been bending and soldering the quilding metal to match the design.
This is the complete shape which will then be soldered to a base.
This is the guilding metal base that I will place the above piece onto and then solder it on to make the box.
Hope you like these. K.
Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, vanity set | Tags: design, form z, grid, material, measurements, vanity set
I am at uni right now working on the outline for the vanity set. I need to make sure the outline is exactly the measurements I need it to be – as I will be working from this basic design. For example checking that the material thickness of the walls are fitting perfectly on the net.
I am working on the computer program Form Z. It provides me with a grid where I can draw the outline to exact measurements. I can also put in the material allowances.
This image looks complicated – the basic shape is actually the rectangle with the round ends. I more then likely have gone the most complicated way to get to this design on Form Z, but it makes sense to me and it is working great.
The purple to black outline shows the material thickness.
Filed under: vanity set | Tags: cast, chains, design, geometric, graphic, idea, ingot, optical art, patterns, process, sterling silver, symetrical, tagged, toggle, vanity set, wire, wire rollers
I have outsourced some of the toggle parts. So right now there is a slight hold on the tagged pieces.
So my focus has changed for now. I am going to be working on my vanity set, so you will see more images of this process soon, I promise. I have to draw some designs for a graphic I’d like on the vanity set. I think that will be the hardest part.
I really life geometic and symetrical patterns – especially optical art. So maybe something like that.
Today I drew down the sterling silver wire to make my chains. This particular length of chain will be made from scratch. I had to cast an ingot and then draw down the wire in wire rollers. Hopefully I will get more images up soon so you get an idea of what I’m on about.
K.
Filed under: Website | Tags: asymmetry, design, photoshop, symmetry, web art, Website
Today in my web art class I was doing more designing on photoshop for my website. I was fiddling round with the image I have posted in the earlier post about the website and have decided I don’t like it. Maybe it is the asymmetry of the image – having all text and image on one side. So I came up with this more symmetrical design, which I think I am happier with. It is a cleaner and crisper looking page I think. I am still working on it and no doubt everything will change. Let me know what you think!
Filed under: Gold + Silver | Tags: acrylic, bristle, brush, comb, design, feminine, gold and silver, grandmother, guilding metal, handmade, mirror, modern, mother, soldering, vanity set
Last year as a project I had in mind to create a modern day vanity set. Complete with brush, comb and mirror. It all related back to creating connections with my mother and grandmothers through these iconic feminine objects. The notions of beauty and ritual were thrown around and were the basis of the design.
What I was attempting to do the first time round, was to create the modern day vanity set, for the modern day woman! So it was designed to be compact and functional. Yet this was not achieved. The images that are with this post are what I ended up with. I was really disappointed and frustrated with myself for not being able to complete these objects to what I had initially imagined.
It has been something I am always thinking about. So here we go again.. This time – I don’t think it is important to totally disregard the traditional and antique aspects of the objects. I won’t let you know exactly what my plans are, but I will continue to update the blog with images of my progress. Wish me luck. K.
This image is of my first attempt to make my own brush. I drilled all the holes in the acrylic and painstakingly each any every bristle was put in by hand.
This is the complete brush, which I will be recycling into the newer version of the vanity set. To be truly functional I think the bristles would need to be cut shorter but everyone who has felt the brush says it is so tactile, it would be terrible if I cut them short. What do you think?
This is the comb – it was never fully complete, as the others weren’t either.
Filed under: Gold + Silver | Tags: aluminium, design, handcratfted, jewellery, necklace, powercoating, stainless steel
This is one example of the necklaces I mentioned in an earlier post, related to the colour brooches. This is the warm wheel, and the two images show the mechanics of the pendant. Very simply you just adjust the tags on each circle and it moves the fours circles to create your own desired pattern. They too are powercoated aluminium. The material that makes the necklace part is stainless steel cable. Hope you like them as much as I do!
