Our second major project for the first semester was fabricating a Vase using wire and any other linear materials. These linear materials could take the form of string, straw, wire, paper, anything that possessed a linear plane.

Approaching this project I wanted to create a vase that was simple and not too complex in form. So I choose the form of a large water jug like vase.

This is a great representation of the form of my vessel.

Before messing with wire we had to create an orthographic drawing of our vessel and then fabricate it with chipboard so we had a model we could easily work with for the next step.

Orthographic:

Chipboard Model:

After creating the orthographic and chipboard model we started to move toward really fabricating the vessel with wire and other linear objects. I started my fabrication utilizing the chipboard model I made to create 4 vertical posts with aluminum wire, then connecting and fortified those posts with a circular wire on the bottom and the top. At this point during the fabrication I started to realize that the wire I was using was not really good when it came to fortification or stabilization since it was aluminum. Nevertheless I pushed forward using the aluminum wire and the small wrapping wire to keep the rings in place.

The final product was bent and not necessarily stable. Due to the aluminum wire the structure could be easily manipulated. I gave the vase a little flare with wire at the bottom criss crossing around the lower half of the vase and then the upper half I used string to add a textural difference.

Final Product:

After creating the final form we had to make a layout/presentation board in Indesign discussing our thoughts and ideas, documentation and work in progress, and finally the final product. I created my layout prior to completing the finished wireframe vessel product.

Presentation Board:

Space&Materiality Presentation Board (02:06:2022)

Overall this fabrication was hard and tricky to get behind, I think this was heavily due to the utilization of the aluminum wire. If I used a stronger steel gauged wire, the frame of the vessel would of been un bothered and a lot more stable. The addition of the string was fun but I also think I should of added more rings onto the frame to have different levels of connection and further mess with texture and differences.

I learned a lot from the vessel wireframe project and had a good time doing it once I got past some of my minor frustrations.

The project we were assigned in Integrative Studio 2 Visual Culture required us to select a theme out of list and create 3 posters revolving around that chosen theme. I chose general health, and in particular virus’ that may arise that are similar to Covid in the near or distant future.

The research for my specific theme was looking at the common covid information posters that are scattered around NYC and in particular the MTA. Another inspiration in general when it comes to doing design projects is the Designer Republic.

covid-19-prevent-spread-palm-card

Designer’s Republic above.

For brainstorming and my process I created a mind map as seen below.

My final work produced in Photoshop Below:

Looking back on this brief project I feel as though I could of refined the look of the posters more so. I’m not very pleased with the colors in particular and the font as well. At first I enjoyed the font but now after looking at it for some time it feels too clutters and loud. Overall though I was happy with the product I produced, in the future though I will stick to more minimalistic designs, and lighter warmer colors.

Bill Owen Questions:

Have you ever been throughly disappointed with your work, and has that disappointment motivated you to do better in the future, and have you learned from it effectively?

How did the success of suburbia when you released it effect you? Were you nervous that you wouldn’t achieve success? or did you publish it without the thought of success.