Materials and Concepts: Project 4

To develop a conscious and deliberate message, stance or opinion based on an issue important to you: ethics and/or morality, nationalism/patriotism, globalization, religion/spirituality, politics, beauty, the environment, health, etc. To design, model and produce an object (3) whose format supports your message assisting in its communication.

My Issue: The mass media manipulating people into buying their products by making them feel bad about themselves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U

Creating the Anti-Product
A necklace that highlights real parts of you which symbolize who you are, not what you look like.
Materials are prototyped clear plexi, further materials to be announced.

Materials and Concepts: Project 3

Explore the materials belonging to the three basic classifications of animal, vegetable and mineral.Use one or more of these materials or materials from further exploration in conjunction with CAD/CAM (Rhinoceros) process to create an object that expresses some form of communication/interconnectedness. The format is open but must convey a physical or implied form of communication/interconnectedness.

Materials and Concepts: Project 2

Definition: Archetype: a universally understood symbol (or term, pattern,
behavior); a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned or emulated

Utilize rapid prototyping technologies (Illustrator/Service Bureau) to offer a new
interpretation of a universal form that reflects contemporary thinking/aesthetics
through an exploration of material, form, function and construction.

Death To The Wall Clock (14.5” x 12.5”)

When being assigned to create a wall clock I immediately thought of them as more of a decoration rather than a device to measure time. In today’s society, when checking the time, I find that I am always using an electronic source such as my cell phone of the microwave, rarely ever looking for a clock on the wall. This idea brought me to the conclusion of my piece which plays on the idea of newer technology overcoming and defeating older technology. I wanted the main focus of my design to incorporate the cell phone, now giving it a duel function by being a clock and a cell phone holder, so I created just the gears of the clock. This strips down the outer layer of the wall clock, leaving the idea of a clock but not the actual functioning clock. I made the hands of the clock as decoration to be placed in between two of the gears as if the clock was being stabbed by its own hands. The bottom gear is placed on its side and that is where the cell phone is held, right in front of the stabbed, bare, wall clock; this implies that the cell phone murdered the wall clock.

            In order to continue with the play of my piece, I used an opal colored acrylic as my material and sourced out the pegs of the gears, using gold screws. The opal acrylic implies that the wall clock is starting to disappear, but there are still parts that are solid, such as the gold screws. The acrylic is light weight and smooth; this works very well for hanging the piece and it captures the concept of a fading object very well.

 

 

Materials and Concepts: Project 1

Sustainable Design: 

Designing with materials that are environmentally friendly. A sustainable design should reduce the          consumption of non-renewable resources, create minimum waste, and be healthy and safe for people.

Ceramic Sustainable Design: 

-combining recycled materials into the clay, such materials used can be: ash, glass, paper, etc.. 

-ceramic glazes that break down nitrous oxide in the presence of sunlight and humidity

Ceramic Artist:

           Jason Clayhaus

           -Graduated from University of Nevada, Las Vegas

           -Initially worked with making molds for architectural building facades and eventually moved onto    

           ceramic tile work

           -Founded Clayhaus Ceramics in Portland, Orgeon 

"The studio is run with 100% renewable energy and other sustainable efforts are made whenever possible. The crackle glazes contain 50% post-consumer recycled bottle glass and every product is made with lead-free materials. Even the shipping cartons and packing materials are made of recycled corrugated paper and cornstarch “peanuts”. Excess clay and glaze are reused and recycled, and seconds and usable broken tiles are donated to local schools’ art programs."

Sources:

http://www.clayhausceramics.com/the_founders.php

http://3rings.designerpages.com/2011/06/01/sustainable-handmade-ceramics-by-clayhaus/

http://inhabitat.com/the-best-sustainable-ceramics-from-cevisama-2011/

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/104462

Silver Ring

This is the sterling silver ring and the prototype from Shapeways

Rhino Ring Designs: 2D and 3D

Designing a ring in Rhino 4.0.. These are my flat design and then my 3D designs

Copper Cuff

Title: The Internal Struggle II 
Copper

Wire Sculpture

Here is the wire sculpture complete..
Title: Flow 
Welded steel wire 
dimensions are appx. 11.5 inches tall and 5.5 inches wide (base)

Inspiration: Wire Sculpture

Here are the pictures of the things that I have inspired me for my wire sculpture.. 

I ended up using the feathers =]