Here are some thumbnail sketches I did throughout the week.

Celebration of Everyday Objects!

Poster Project!
So we are starting a new project and I'm excited about this one. Everyone in the class was given an everyday object and our aim is to celebrate that object and everything about it. My object is a plastic knife and fork. I have to come up with lots of ideas relating to this objects and finish up with a poster celebrating the plastic knife and fork.

First I did a brainstorm and put down everything I could think of that related to the plastic knife and fork: its advantages, disadvantages, uses etc.

After I looked up the history of the plastic knife and fork and found out things like when it was invented, where and by who was it invented.

Finished

After a long week of trying to get materials and assembling my piece my letter-form is finally finished. Unfortunately I have no photographs of my piece on its own but here is a photo of the complete alphabet of letterforms created by our first year Graphic Design class. It looks very impressive when everyone's pieces are together.

This is my Letterform hanging. The wire blends into the surroundings in the background so you cant see it perfectly in this photo but you can get the general idea of how it looks.

These are the exhibited pieces on display in college.

Idea

I did this page of thumbnail sketches which I really like. I really want to find a way to make something like this.

I like the idea of having the letter E entangled in some type of material between to flat pieces of another material which I think would give it better shape and structure.

I think wire would be a good material to entangle the E in and possibly perspex for the top and the bottom. To see if this would work i made a small prototype using cheaper materials as perspex is quiet expensive.

I used acetate punched holes in it and then used black wire.

I like how this looks so now I am going to push the idea further and increase the scale.

Time to start Entangling

moving away from drawing on paper I began to physically entangle things.

Entangling cut out paper letter 'E's

Entangling string and wire

Entangling red and black wire. I think this looks the best out of the things I have entangled so far.

Time for a Change

So Erosion just wasn't really working out, I found myself coming to a stop and lacking in new ideas so it was back to the drawing board and time to start brainstorming again. I came up with another word: Entangle which I hope I will have more success with. Entangle means to involve (someone) in difficulties or complicated circumstances, which I think sums up the State of the Nation today.

This is my brainstorm and some pages of thumbnail sketches I did to get some of my ideas onto paper.

I'll take it

Rooting through skips is something I've got used to since starting art college because you'll never know what little treasures you could find. I found these cardboard box 'things' in the recycling and photographed them in different ways to create the letter E, they also relate to my word because of the way they look almost like they are eroding.