Filed under: Misc. | Tags: spray can, toggle, tagged, Out of Hand, gold and silversmithing, raffle, crowned and bound
This is an image of the pieces I made for the production line that was made as a result of our catwalk pieces.
One of the lucky raffle winners will recieve one of these spray can toggle necklaces from Kemmo’s ‘Tagged’ series.
The winners piece will be a limited edition of one! You will be the only person to have this particular coloured spray can!
If you are not a gambler – these pieces will be on sale from the opening night exhibition of
eleventimestwenty
220 pieces by 11 metalsmiths
Place: Out of Hand Gallery, Gold and Silversmithing Workshop ANU School of Art.
Time: 6:00pm
DATE: 27th AUGUST 2009
$60.00 Necklaces
$45.00 Bracelets
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: Assignments, Gold + Silver | Tags: aluminium, anodised, anodising, brainstorm, cable, catwalk, colour, colours, fashion, fun, graffiti, hip hop, hoodies, interactive, meaning, neckpieces, production line, spray can, stainless steel, toggle, toggles, urban
As I am sure you are all curious as to why I asked for responses on the questionnaire I posted. (Thanks again to all those who took the time to give me your answers – I really appreciate it and you might see some of your answers in the completed work)
This is an image of that the neck pieces will look like. They will be on stainless steel cable and I am making toggles.
This is a detail of what the pendant type charm will be like. It is suppose to resemble a spray can. So this is where the colours come in. The toggles are each made out of aluminium and they can then be anodised different colours. So to make this collection fun and interactive – each colour is going to have a meaning – so when potential buyers wish to purchase one they do not necessarily pick one because it is there favourite colour – the meaning behind the colour is what makes you pick it.
If you are wondering where the spray can comes from.. Well in a relating assignment we have to create catwalk pieces and then in response to those create a production line. My catwalk pieces are hoodies – so my inspiration for both the hoodies and the spray can pieces is the whole hippidy hop, graffiti, urban culture. I am also looking for names for the collections so feedback and ideas are always helpful. Let’s brainstorm.
There will also be a bracelet version – for the males out there. In this image there is an example of the aluminium that will be used.
Hope you like – let me know.
Filed under: Assignments | Tags: black, drawstring, dying, fabric, jewellery, necklace, neckpiece, nozzle, spray can, toggle
I did some dying! It was not a complete waste of time. It was enough to make me realise that using drawstring material for my production line was not going to work properly. So here are some images of the dyed drawstring in action, and then the final outcome.
This is the cord I dyed black – my post for Help! was to do with this project so you may recognise the spray can nozzle. It is the only object I will use in this project now. Before hand I was looking at the three objects in the images in the post Help!
This is the second type of drawsting that I tried to dye black – but it did not take. So it turned out grey, which is a colour I wanted all the same. What do you think of these? Would you wear them as a neckpiece?
Obviously they have improved somewhat.. I will post some more images soon. k.
