Studio Brief 2 - Object - Initial Ideas

Initial ideas

Based on previous experimentation four concepts and formats have been chosen:

-        Using my animation frames, flip books could be created showing time in different formats. The series would use only the circular designs to create a cohesive set of books. Currently the designs vary in subject however for the series they would be either focused on expressing only the elemental time keeping devices or representing clock movements in abstract ways. 

-        Posters will be created for an imagined exhibition at the British Museum based on Egyptian timekeeping. These would be based around the drawings of the obelisk and water clock created in Word and further images. The Egyptians invented many of the early timekeeping devices. To make a cohesive set of posters a gold colour scheme would be used in reference to the sandy coloured stone used in Egypt and hieroglyphs could be used to represent the different elements.

-        Creating packaging for a Dandelion paper weight sold at Kew Gardens. During research, it was found that the seed head of a dandelion was called a dandelion clock. This referred to the child’s game of blowing the seeds to reveal the time. The paperweights cast the whole seed head in resin. The current packaging is standard Kew Garden packaging which does not reflect the product. The item is quite a luxury product because of its price so this needs to be reflected in the packaging.

-       Create a book that focuses on the macro intricacies of clocks. This would use the macro images from my previous experimentation. The book would also pick out elements from the pictures such as symbols and text and show these as drawings. Images that have a white background would be recreated as line drawings showing the detail of the clock parts. The photographs would only be full frame images to create consistency across the pictures. This would take influence from both the Pentagram papers and the Sheffield newspaper.