I hope to make my idea of representing this year, a visual experience for the final exhibition. With mind maps explaining how I have approached projects this year and what I have learnt from doing my Foundation Diploma at Manchester and what I feel i have gained from choosing 3D Design. I think it is important to reflect on how you work to develop. And thought this project was a perfect opportunity to 'tie all my work together'. Before I move onto my degree in the same field, this year has been about exploration and experimenting, but feel I now need to put everything I have learnt in context. This is how I came to the idea of 'Openings' to be my final project title. Other options were 'Foundation', 'Building on Foundations', 'Materials', 'The importance of ideas' and 'Instructions'. But decided that 'Openings' was simple and clear. Explaining that I know this Project is not Final, it is just the start of my work in design and hope that it will 'Open' new opportunities, 'Open' doors to my degree and so on.
This idea and topic seems complicated, but it is actually simple, I want to simply break down what I have learnt this year and make each step presentable. As at the this stage in Design, (to me at least) it is about learning as much as possible, rather than becoming specialised in one area for example or becoming 'comfortable'. I hope to make mistakes, broaden the way I work and analyse how I go about a project, how others do and what works and what doesn't so I can improve the way I work in the long term.
I plan to do this by making a huge 3D mind map and display it, so it looks like its exploding. A visual of any page at the start of a project when you have too many ideas and ways of answering a brief, ones which are too simple but interesting and ones which are just too expensive or advanced! I will then circle ones which will work and learn how to do them, skills such as knitting, which I thought I would have learnt already this year. And then make a small product from this skill.
I have just sat down at the computer today and got all of this out, to make the last few days and the next few clear to myself, as well as anyone else! As last week and this week I have and will mainly just be scribbling in my notebook making the important decisions, gathering a base of secondary and primary research and debating with peers and tutors.
Something I have had to decide recently is the skills from my mind map I want to learn, which object (with an opening-make the idea visual) will best represent this skill in an interesting way. I think I will stick to four 'openings'; Mouths (lips), pea pods, muscle shells and cassette cases. These are all interesting shapes and will look good together. Lips will be made out of paper origami, Pea Pods in cream wool, knitted. Muscle Shells, grey clay and cassette cases out of glass.
Because of the complexity of the project, I will keep the colour palette in the spectrum of black and white, shades of an old book page, as this will be the material I will use a lot. This constant factor will keep the set of work uniformed and linked.
Moving on from the mind map and having the four objects coming off and then a model of that object made by me in the set material. I will include the instructions of how I did it.
This week though as mentioned is about exploration, being inquisitive; So I have been to the plaster and glass workshops inquiring about my glass cassette case.
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