Unrelated interest

This is an article that I really enjoyed reading. It is about creating interesting spaces for children to play on. Since I am currently studying child development, I am learning the importance of play. Check it out and see what you think!

http://www.id-mag.com/article/Recess-Rethought/

Fun container.

This is just something I happened across. They are bags that after you use them, you plant them. Here is the link.

http://www.custompaper.com/Shop/wedding_favors/flower_seed_bags.html


Winnie Randolan is a paper artist. I love her work and a few of her images speak containment to me. You can view her work at:

http://www.guildofpapermakers.com/radolan.htm

Marcel Wander is an artist whose work I find interesting. Mostly I was interested in his collection of vases.

http://www.marcelwanders.nl/wanders/pages/acc-flowers-overview.shtml

On the Droog website, Optic glasses:

http://www.droog.com/products/0/optic-glasses/

Project 1: Containment

Examine 3d forms that contain things. Look broadly: the more variety the more points you get. For the design research phase disregard scale and consider all materials: Look At Form. Look at innovative approaches. Look at how various civilizations have approached containing things. THEN come up with designs for a ‘container’ that is designed to contain something specific. Consider various approaches: product design, art object, hybrid objects.

Fall 2010 and it's Jewelry 3 time...

I am looking forward to continuing to learn, grow, and develop my skills in jewelry and object design this semester. Looking back, I have to think about the techniques I have learned thus far, and marvel at how little I knew coming into this program. Here is an inventory of the skills I have learned:

Sawing, piercing, soldering, welding, stone setting, etching, chasing and repousse, roller printing, texturing, hammer techniques, basic hinges, hollow forming, tabs, rivets, using PnP blue paper,different patinas, finishing, polishing, altering surface texture, simple designing in rhino and illustrator, design process, maquettes, keeping a notebook,

I am sure there are other things. At the moment I seem to be at a loss.