by Kelly | 03 Apr 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas, Research
I have been working on my ideas for my Globalisation Game this evening for a few hours. I want it to be similar to Monopoly but based around global businesses. I do not want the board layout to be around the outside of the board like Monopoly; I want it to be more...
by Kelly | 27 Mar 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas
I have finally had a burst of enthusiasm for my Design Discourse module! I was really enjoying it by the end of last semester but this semester I was distracted with my Student Associate Scheme placement at secondary school with teaching. This weekend however after...
by Kelly | 30 Nov 2010 | 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials
I have always wanted to try out the process of slip casting and as this module calls for multiples, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to proceed with this technique. Last week Pete from ceramics helped to teach me how to slip cast and this week using the...
by Kelly | 24 Nov 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials
I have been painting the coca-cola logo onto a sheet of glass created for me in the hot glass workshop. I am going to put it in the kiln to fire it on then cut it into petal shapes and into the kiln again to fuse together in a flower shape. I will then drop them into...
by Kelly | 16 Nov 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials
This afternoon I began making two-part moulds of two light bulbs for my Friday module. My aim is to slip cast them and as the module is all about multiples, slip casting is a great was of doing this. I have never tried slip casting before so it should be interesting....
by Kelly | 15 Nov 2010 | 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas
There are a few people having issues as well as myself with the Friday module and the way it is being run. As the University has changed the course since we began, there are some people who joined onto a specialist course and are being force to use other materials...
