10 February 2020
ADAS Essay
Category: P04 Investigate
Reading: The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals
Richard Huges and Michael Rowe 27 January 2020 The book contextualizes patination in art and craft through historical times, and mentions some achievements in patination techniques in French, Japanese and Chinese crafts movements. Beyond this, it is a kind of recipe book, showing images of patinated plates and directing the user to the 'recipe' to… Continue reading Reading: The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals
Natural History Museum: Minerals Room
20 January 2020 Copper Minerals in crystallized form: Azurite, Cuprite, Malachite Copper and copper minerals in their natural state Dendritic crystals can be compared to calcium depositions on corals Salt - a corroding preservative? Interesting display showcase in the common corridor Further exploration: synthetic crystallization Synthetic ruby produced from flame fusion - can Aluminium Oxide… Continue reading Natural History Museum: Minerals Room
Bio-engineering
23 November 2019 Tom Dixon: Underwater Furniture Farming Introduction of frameworks supporting the growth of corals in the ocean - to yield a harvest of furniture in a couple of years.. not much talk about it at present. (Find out more) Sigalit Landau: Salt Bride Coral Outplanting https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/crystal-skulls-instagram-artist/?pn=dd Tyler Thrasher Art https://www.tokujin.com/works/2008-second-nature/?l=en Design and The… Continue reading Bio-engineering
Week 2 – Testing absorbents
15 January 2020 Following the success of the acrylic butterfly, where i coated an electroformed laser cut butterfly object with sawdust, to allow absorptive crystallization and colours from copper corrosion, I decided to flip the materials inside out - using absorbents as base for electroforming and patination, to allow for patination on electroformed surfaces.. I… Continue reading Week 2 – Testing absorbents
Crystals and Crystallization Reading
14 December 2019 History, nature, nhm, existing documentation, synthetic growth, my direction - dendrites? internship bookmarks on crystal reading Crystal & gem / written by Dr R.F.Symes and Dr R.R.Harding. https://sciencing.com/create-synthetic-rubies-6788778.html http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Synthetic-Ruby.html https://www.gemsociety.org/article/understanding-gem-synthetics-treatments-imitations-part-4-synthetic-gemstone-guide/ Crystal growers make use of certain fundamental aspects of natural laws; these laws govern the states of matter and the interactions of… Continue reading Crystals and Crystallization Reading
Further Experiments: scale, light, nature, organics
12 January 2020 Outcomes: Colours and shapes of recovered crystalsHardier blue crystalsAcrylic butterfly - light fixture?Absrption from flowers?Salt screenSalt screen against lightCopper crystal ringAJ wearing Copper crystal ringPotential dynamic screen - growth and interactionScaling up stirring stick sculpture - absorption and evaporation in the outdoorsCopper sulphate crystallization on a found twig Processes: Plating a Laser… Continue reading Further Experiments: scale, light, nature, organics
Elevator Pitch Feedback
19 December 2019 Thanks everyone who wrote feedback for my elevator pitch! SUBJECT AREAS: Context / historical / political / geographic / site 1. Growth? Constraint? Change? Use? The first comment seems to question my intention to apply narratives of growth and transience into my final work, as mentioned in my elevator pitch. I enjoyed… Continue reading Elevator Pitch Feedback
Speculative Everything
Reading Notes This potential to use the language of design to pose questions, provoke and inspire is conceptual design's defining feature. (beyod the limits of reality)They (conceptual designs) celebrate their unreality and take full advantage of being made from ideas. Rather than waiting for commissions from industry or seeking out market gaps for new products,… Continue reading Speculative Everything
P04 Investigate Reflection
15 December 2019 Role of experimentation in my design practice Experimental approaches - how?How has Practical research - challenged & expanded techniques, materials, form and use - through experimentation and riskHow have I - Gathered, changed, dismantled, changed, rescaled, arranged, rearranged, tested outIntellectual processes involved in my work How P04 helped Situate and Contextualize my… Continue reading P04 Investigate Reflection
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