·Style.
Before you design something new in a given style (your choice)… we want to make sure we know exactly what The Style you chose is.
Define it and Show us.
1. Make a list of 10 stylistic characteristics that define or describe your chosen style.
2. Collect 20 images that represent your chosen style. Upload them to a big Learning Portfolio post (along with your list of characteristics).
Post your LP link to Canvas.
We will share our screens to look at what we collected.
Stylistic Characteristics:
modernism
practical
structure
geometric
colors: red, yellow and blue
form follows function
Flexible irregular composition
concise and opposed to redundant decoration
Advocate reasonable practical value
Respect the performance of the material
pay attention to the material’s own texture and color of the configuration effect
Images:
·Forks, knives, chopsticks, straws… Tools for eating. These are objects we use multiple times a day. Can they be improved? Maybe. Can they represent our taste and values? Definitely.
Let’s redesign a place setting to represent our taste and values. You will base the new set and place setting on the style you chose last week, that you created the mood board for.
Fork, knife and spoon. Plate, bowl and cup (tall drinking or short coffee/tea).
Research a style and create a collage of important notes, images, and stylistic characteristics.
Apply these to your place setting.
Create many sketches as works-in-progress
Make a final presentation to the best of your ability, by hand or digital, or both.
Mood board:
Process:
First, I made two sketches, marked the functions and colors, then I used a paper plate and plastic for simple assembly.
Outcome:
The most typical features of the Bauhaus style are the use of red, yellow and blue, the use of geometric figures, and pragmatism. So in my works, I paid more attention to the functional design, and I used red, yellow, and blue three colors simply as the appearance design. My design is to move a quarter of the plate to the top, and then use the plate as the cover, and put a similar cup or bowl under it, which can be used to hold drinks or soup. The plate serves as a lid to store the temperature well. A cup or bowl is also embedded in the middle of the plate. The two devices have a high degree of freedom and can be used differently according to different foods. At the same time, both devices can be taken out, and the plate can be put back in its original position. Instead of knife and fork, I chose chopsticks. Spoons and chopsticks are highly used in my life. I mainly design spoons and chopsticks in red, yellow, and blue. The yellow ball part is made of some soft materials such as rubber, which makes eating more comfortable.
