PE Task 1

PE Task 1

During this unit I have enjoyed learning new skills and involving myself in all different workshops. My favourite workshop has to have been the laser cut, it opened many opportunities for me and helped me figure out what pathway I wanted to go down. I firstly looked at laser cut furniture and found some pieces designed by Gianluigi Landoni. The light that shines through creates these amazing shadows and these are as stunning as the pieces themselves! After seeing these, I started with my own laser cut surfaces using circles as my main focus point. I experimented with different surfaces, scales and tones, I also introduced wax into my designs to create a textural surface as I find it difficult working straight onto a plain canvas.










Gianluigi Landoni is an architect and designer and creates stunning furniture like these pieces above and below.

This modern style of chair really accommodates the rose pattern that has been cut through, I would love to make a laser cut chair or table or any type of furniture that is as stunning and as effective as these, the pattern of the roses make the furniture look delicate even though they are stern enough for someone to use day to day. The pattern also projects a beautiful shadows with either artificial or natural light, creating a piece of art in itself. 











Doily July 3 2006

I am very intrigued about these particular tables, the fact they were designed merely from a simple doily is brilliant! I love the fact they have made something that is so delicate and simple into something like this, a large yet still very delicate looking table. I feel they have achieved this by the material they used and by the thin cut of it as well, even though it will be able to take a fair amount of weight I see that a lot of thought and dedication has gone into this, as well the other rose pieces.



This unit has opened my eyes to a lot of new and different things, I have found out things I would never thought I could do or could be achieved by a simple machine. Even though I could have definitely done more, I see in my sketch book and out of it too that I have developed my ideas and shown an interest in the task in hand, I loved my starting point and I enjoyed the way i carried it on and the pathway I went down. However, I would have loved a lot more time on this and been able to create my own piece of furniture or a large scale laser cut piece, I would like to continue all the things I have learned and used and would also like to develop these in further units as I think they would be a positive addition to any project I do.

A Long Structure

In one of the first lessons we looked at making structures from paper. One of the tasks was to make a long structure. I wrapped the paper round itself, doing different sizes and stuck them together. Then put these on the wall and created a vine.

Sketch Book

These are some new pictures from my sketch book featuring the 100 drawings, some research into laser cut furniture and my laser cuts.

Chance Cards

Large Scale Chance Cards

After Experimenting with different media and objects on a smaller scale, I progressed to larger scale.

 shadow. biro.

 layers. ink

 transparent paper. ink.

Adjectives

For this I used the adjectives to wrap, to hang etc and took some pictures. 

Chance Cards

Chance Cards
Sketch Book Work

These Sketch book pages are my interpretation of one of the chance cards we were given to work with. I have used ink and charcoal for these. I love using both ink and charcoal and didn't want to have such an apparent look on these so I used everyday objects to create the drawings. The charcoal and wallpaper pages were interpretations of a card that asked you to use 5%, 25% and 80% of the page, I did this using tone. 

 wallpaper. charcoal.

 wallpaper.charcoal.

 wallpaper. charcoal.

 wallpaper. charcoal.

 wallpaper. charcoal.

 wallpaper. charcoal.