Week 02 - 3D

Class Format

A brief recap of last weeks lesson. Practical exercise - interpret brief and respond based on specified parameters. Collect, evaluate and collate information.

 

Group Exercise

Practical

Create a design for a CDU Design Student Shoulder Bag. Use any tools you wish. Put the results and a paragraph of description in your blog. Address these 3 points of difference in your design:

• Shape
  - Small, body fitting, multi functional.
• Media
  - Canvas and elastic.
• Style
  - Holster.

Sketch for design student shoulder bag. Based on a holster style bag and intended to carry a tablet device, mobile phone, a small sketch book, a pen/stylus,  usb storage device(s) and solar charging device.

 

Research

Video

Anamorphic Typography from Thomas Quinn on Vimeo. This came through RSS from My Modern Met, who made a brief post about the work. This is kind of like using a 3 dimensional space to distort a 2 dimensional space.

 

Images

This also came to me via an RSS via Better Living Through Design. Created by Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack somewhere between 1919 and 1933. I think of this as another example of a communication between the 2 dimensional space and the 3 dimensional. Here the 2D theory of colour is expressed with a 3D form.

Found this while looking for bag design inspiration. Nice steam punk aesthetic and a design I have borrowed heavily from.

             

Reflection

To avoid duplicating anything I am about to write for the 2D entry, I will instead reflect on my own interests in relation to 3D design. My drawing practice has a solid foundation in representing 3 dimensional forms. In actual 3 dimensional space this interest has manifested in my art practice as sculptural pieces constructed from found objects and re-purposed old tech. As a visual example of this to the left is an image from a series of pieces which I collectively titled 'Cyber-Cherub' 

(photographed in motion for your added pleasure). Shortly after that i discovered plaster of paris and dental alginate (a fast setting silicon compound used to make extremely accurate casts of human teeth). Deciding to use this product with other parts of the human body, another example should include a piece titled 'Clock', pictured again to the left. This is where the sculptural pieces gained a functional purpose and perhaps showed an interest in the nature of a visual pun. Between the eyes of the face emerged the accurate hands of a clock, a slider re-purposed from a toaster on the right side also controlled the intensity of the back light. From there on things moved on toward the macabre as demonstrated by the close up shot of the piece below playfully titled 'Untitled (t.v. zombie).

This piece included a functioning stripped down television (... and slightly out of focus L.E.D's in the background for your extra, added pleasure). I screwed up the layout somewhere here, will investigate