by Kelly | 04 Nov 2010 | 5AA002: Integrating Practice and Materials
Wednesday 3rd November 2010 For our Wednesday module we had a midway assessment and today was the second of two presentation sessions. I was involved with this week’s group along with the second half of the group. I was the second to last person to deliver my...
by Kelly | 03 Nov 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique
We had a group crit session around the tables in the studio space. People mostly talked about their experiences, memories, thoughts and reflections of the day spent in Oxford at the Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum. I however only really responded to one...
by Kelly | 03 Nov 2010 | 5AD008: Critical and Contextual Issues in Art and Design, Initial Ideas, Research
In the contextual studies module today we had a small group session with a PowerPoint presentation on teapots, and with no interest what-so-ever in tea or any hot drink for that matter, the subject was not particularly appealing to me from the start. We continued the...
by Kelly | 03 Nov 2010 | 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials
On Friday last week, I started the rotation into metals from glass and so Marcus has become my tutor for this module for the next four weeks I think. I showed him my sketchbook and in this module I have been trying to bring graffiti, stencils and silhouettes into my...
by Kelly | 29 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Exploring Different Materials
I should have done this at the beginning of the module really and looking at other people’s work and sketchbooks makes me feel guilty that I hadn’t done anything except bring in objects I like and talk about why I like them. So I have now started doing...
by Kelly | 28 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Exploring Different Materials
I started making paper flowers. The first was using a technique that my younger sister showed me. Her friend Maxine taught her how to make them so I tried it out, from memory (and my memory is usually terrible!) but did a slight variation. You make strips of paper and...
