Artist inspiration: Postler Ferguson

Artist inspiration: Postler Ferguson

"This artist has provide the basis of my inspiration towards my final outcome, I like the idea of providing a practical product which provides functionality as well as innovative design feature for the home or workplace."

"In response too Postler Ferguson work, I intend to create a practical lighting feature that still emulates the form and shape of an existing industrial project as my inspiration."

Postler Ferguson's buoy lamps were created as part of an ongoing investigation into the aesthetics of industrial technology, therefore mirroring our project and my intentions for a final outcome.

http://www.postlerferguson.com/

Industrial objects for non-industrial people: Initial Idea's 1

Industrial object for non-industrial people:

Initial Ideas: part 1

" I decided that for the re-creation of my V2 Rocket Engine i wanted to use the basic format of the V2 Rocket Engine as the shape for my final re-creation for non-industrial people."

Idea 1: to turn the V2 Rocket Engine into a Pencil Pot.

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Idea 2: to turn the V2 Rocket Engine into a Children's Drink Cup         with Curly straw.

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Idea 3: to turn the V2 Rocket Engine into a spot light, lamp or chandelier.

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"I will take one of these initial ideas forward and continue developing it for my final out come for the project."

3D Workshop: V2 Rocket Engine

3D Workshop: 

exploring shape and creation

"I love being able to get creative and hands on in the 3D workshop, being able to use many different techniques, methods and materials, to explore and evaluate both the shape and form of the V2 Rocket Engine, and devise a way that I can re-create it for a practical non-industrial use."

" I decided to use 3 different materials to look at three shape and possibility of re-creation of the V2 Rocket Engine: Plastic, Metal and Wood."

Plastic representation of the V2 Rocket Engine.

Metal representation on the V2 Rocket Engine.

 Wooden representation of the V2 Rocket Engine.

"I have decided to take the form of the wooden representation of the V2 Rocket Engine as a basis of further development for my prototypes and possibly my final out come."

V2 Rocket engine 1: Recycled Materials

V2 Rocket Engine: 

exploration of form and function

"I decided that I needed to do something practical to look at the form of the V2 Rocket Engine, so I decided to create a model of the V2 Rocket Engine using found and recycled objects that I found at home."

Recycled Materials list:(first ideas) 

• yoghurt pots
• straws
• beads
• cardboard
• polystyrene
• wood/dowels
• pringles tube
• bottles
• cocktail sticks
• bottle tops
• washing up liquid bottles
• elastic bands 

What I actually used to make my Model:

• Yoghurt Pot
• the top section of a plastic Bottle
• pringles lid
• beads
• wooden skewers
• wooden dowels
• copper wire
• kinder egg, toy pod
• electrical cable 

creating my Recycled V2 Rocket Engine

  This is the basis of my Rocket Engine, it is made out of a yoghurt pot, the top section of a plastic bottle and a pringles lid. 

I then used beads to add the details of the tube connectors that connect the engine to the fuel supply.

I added wooden skewers onto my model to continue the shape and form of the model.

  

I then used wooden dowels to my structure, as another component of the V2 Rocket engine.

 

My completed recycled version of a V2 Rocket Engine.  

"I found by making a copy of the V2 Rocket Engine out of random objects I was able to properly look at the shape and form of the rocket engine as I had to find recycled materials that follow the same shape or can be manipulated to form the same shapes as featured in the V2 Rocket Engine."

Card Model Making: Our Kingdom

Card Model Making

We were given a are marked out with masking tape on the floor in which we could devise and create our own kingdom/city/land.

Ideas:

• the bigger the better.
• Castle - gates, bridge, turrets, walls, flags.
• make 1 main castle
• put walls around our given area to separate us from the other cities.
• create surrounding areas- woods, landscape, houses & gardens, farm.

"We decided to create the castle  at least A4 size, we decided that we would make our kingdom larger than the other groups had planned to make their's, as we wanted to stand out and be different"    

 This was the area we were given to create our kingdom on.

This is the whole area that the class was given to create our individual cities/kingdom's on. 

Making the central section of the castle and starting to develop our ideas on how to make the castle turrets.

Creating a cone to go on the top of the cylindrical castle turret.

Completed castle turrets.

Sorting out placement of the main castle structure and turrets in out groups given space.

Creating a second room the the castle building.

Putting castellated walls around the boundary of our groups given area.

 Adding houses and gardens to the area surrounding the main castle building, we also added small details such as hills, trees, and animals.

Our completed area.

The whole of the classes, completed card modelled area.

"I really enjoyed this day, as I love being able to use 3D methods to express my ideas, whilst still sticking to the given brief, yet being able to express myself." 

as a whole the class decided that we wouldn't destroy our creation at the end of the day, but instead we would leave them there so that we can add to them and continue to develop our cities/kingdoms as we are inspired or compelled to - I was very please with this idea 

Print workshop: V2 rocket engine

Printing workshop

Collagraphs

A collograph is a printing technique that is created by printing an image that has been created using collage techniques and various papers and textures as well as completely cutting out sections to allow sections of the print to remain completely blank. 

this is my collograph print showing the V2 Rocket Engine alongside the body of the rocket.

  collograph printing board.

Mono-printing: from metal

mono-printing is when you lay down the in on a surface and then work onto the ink to produce an image. In the case of metal mono-printing you put the ink onto a metal plate and then remove portions of the ink using a variety of implements to create an image, the plate is then placed in the press and printed.

My first attempt at metal mono-printing

My second attempt at metal mono-printing.

"This one turned out better because I added more detail onto the metal printing plate than my first attempt, I also use a brio to make finer marks on the plate, instead of just using a cotton bud to make the marks in the ink on the metal plate." 

Drawing Workshop: V2 rocket engine

"Exploring different drawing style in order to express initial thoughts and enable creative ideas" 

Technical Drawing style: 

simple yet expressive 

Creating a quick yet effective drawing in order to express you ideas.

Then continuing to develop and refine aspects within your drawing to give it a focus and to further express the intentions of your project or reason for creation.

Creative fine art drawing:

thought provoking and exploratory work. 

Creating an image portraying both the technical aspect of the V2 Rocket Engine: design, form, practical aspects. As well as showing the origins of the V2 Rocket engine, in the form of the rocket itself.

  

Detailed drawing of the V2 Rocket Engine, in black fine-liner.

"I enjoyed the drawing day because it allowed me to explore the shapes and forms within the V2 Rocket Engine. I was also able to use these drawing exercises as a tool to start thinking about what i wanted to create as part of this project,by using the V2 Rocket engine in its simplest form, purely looking at design, shape and practicality to re-create and re-modle." 

General Research 1:2

Specifications of the V2 Rocket engine (1945)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17489642/NASA-History-V2-A4-Rocket-Technical-Development-Data-1965

General Research (1)

Project No.1 

Industrial Object For Non-Industrial people  

"for this project we were given a A3 image of an industrial item, a highly engineered product that is an integral part of society and the development of technology, the aim of the project is to initially identify the object an look at the ascetics of the product: such as form, shape and purpose. them by focusing on the ascetics  re-purpose the object to create a non-industrial object, with industrial influences"  

V2 Rocket Engine 

1944-52

Labelled diagram of the V2 Rocket Engine   

Image of the V2 Rocket, containing the V2 Rocket Engine

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=v2+rocket+engine&hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=KlfCUPOaCM6LhQeqr4DYAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAQQ_AUoAA&biw=2051&bih=965