Urban Jewellery

I really love the idea of this urban jewellery. I have included it in the research as I think the playing around with scale is important, as we have seen with the slot together trees going from small table top decor, to full size floor pieces in place of a normal tree. This is massively scaled up, it is also being used in the complete wrong context. The idea of how we expect an item to behave has reminded me of the idea of treating wood with textile process'. Its urban surrounding are all similar to my imagery theme this term.

The Granery

Due to the shape of this piece it has obviously been hand painted, which is amazing. I don't really like the colour scheme but it is a showstopper! High end hand decorated furniture is in.

The Granary - wood based product research

 

I prefer the coloured wood ones, and this is a new type of tree I have seen, as this is set in a block to keep it up and no slotting together.

 

The picture on the left was taken because it shows the new material I am working with set against the very streets inspiring the imagery.

 

Great colours in the trees in the background. The laser cutter again used to create wooden sets.

 

The snowmen are one of the first slot together ornaments I have seen in shops. But based on the thickness of the wood, these don't even slot, they are glued together in the the cross shape, which gives them their form and balance.

Large scale slot together! I think if there is such a market for slot together ornamentation at Christmas, then does that mean non-festivity based ornaments could be popular all year round. And maybe there just isn't anyone making them, another reason why I should get creating them next term.

The Granery research

This is for composition research. Tidy collage. Butt pattern up against each other

I thought this very industrial patterned curtain was a nice source of inspiration and then when I looked back at the photo I noticed it is set against a building that it look like it could have been based on. I like photographs like this, the inspiration, context and product all in one, which is something we will have to consider at the end of the degree.

great colour combination

Putting a fabric with a complimentary fabric from elsewhere. Almost like what I am doing in my work, actual buildings and patterns taken from buildings.

Where I first saw the work of Samuel Thomas in year two!

Contemporary Christmas with Design Milk

This host of contemporary christmas trees are amazing. It gives me confidence that their is longevity and ideas behind the wood I now wish to use. Some of these are just a case of fancy cutting, which now since I have had the wood workshop induction I can take advantage of and begin to wield. I don't actually want to make 3D trees next term, but in the run up to Christmas is is one of the most accessible forms of potential context. I want the objects to be inspired by shapes found in the imagery for my next project.

studio Vacek

 
Studio Vacek make this great wooden furniture as part of one of their collections, this is a really clever way of incorporating wood. I'm not sure how comfortable it would actually be to use. But if you were clever you could source everything for pieces like this quite inexpensively, as long as you were prepared to search, clean up and forage. These have a very modern feel because they are so clean cut.

Future context?

I did some possible future context research in an antiques fair in the Norwich lanes. Although I would not be sourcing furniture from places like this as it is far too expensive. It was nice to see a whole era of furniture in one place and see it in its own context. I started to imagine how to could print on to this furniture with patterns and colours that would fit in to that context era. And then when you take them out and put them in modern contemporary styling or homes if I were to sell, it would be a nice contrast of harking back to its roots but in a modern way.