Project 01 - Bodyscapes (cont.)

Well, this was a busy, trying, stressful, “headdesk” inducing week.

But hugs were had all round by the end of Thursday. Why? We came up with our (almost) final model/concept, received Rob’s approval, and also cleared things up with Rob re: the way the group was working.

The organic shape is out - we all agreed it was too much like a box (as in, the thing male cricket players wear for “comfort”). We returned to Mohammed’s idea (which we originally discarded after a poo-pooing, turns out there was a misunderstanding), of an irregularly faceted shape. Niccolò & Mohammed played with that concept some more - coming up with the stick model, althought there were disagreements about the best course of action, we got there in the end.

With the model in hand, on the Friday I started a technical drawing of it, incorporating a suggestion from Rob (the tutor, if that wasn’t clear) regarding the influence of posture/the human body - that is, affecting a curve or somesuch at an appropriate point. Due to the nature of the change, and the fact that the model had broken by that stage, the final drawing is not identical. It is however the way foward.

I then resorted to graph paper to gather and plot the 3-dimensional co-ordinates of each of the nodes (the points at which the timbers meet) in order to work out exactly how long these pieces of timber will need to be cut. I love using formulas in Excel. Here, have some formula porn:

=(SUM((VLOOKUP(F3,$A$3:$D$20,2,FALSE)-VLOOKUP(G3,$A$3:$D$20,2,FALSE))^2,(VLOOKUP(F3,$A$3:$D$20,3,FALSE)-VLOOKUP(G3,$A$3:$D$20,3,FALSE))^2,(VLOOKUP(F3,$A$3:$D$20,4,FALSE)-VLOOKUP(G3,$A$3:$D$20,4,FALSE))^2))^0.5

Uhuh.

On Monday we have our Architectural Technologies lecture, and I hope to be able to get all of this cut at least on Tuesday. That leaves us Wednesday & Thursday for assembly, Friday & the weekend for Testing. I can’t even remember which “week” this is anymore. It may be week 4, maybe not. 

Till next time *waves*.

Week 4 - Visual Communications 6/6

Ok, so this is the second half. As I said earlier, I’m not 100% happy with #6, it could probably do with another redesign. I’ll stick a “if I have time” pin in that one.

#7… feels unfinished. We’ll see. Again - pin.

Week 4 - Visual Communications 1/6

I did not enjoy this week. But hey ho. We had to bring in a series of objects which we felt were important to us - I had a small selection, as I couldn’t fit them all on the page.

As for the final sequence, I was toying with a couple of ideas. First was to have a sequence of images with a single word stamped over the top, then I pondered using type transfer instead. The second idea was similar to this - however instead of painting and doing this by hand, I’d scan the images in and use Illustrator/Photoshop to paint the sequence.

Started the hand painted sequence using acrylic, and was rather pleased as to how it has turned out so far - as I haven’t used paint for >15 years. At some point, it’ll get finished.