Materials and Processes in Drawing and Making

references

ARTIST :

Jean Shin: Contemporary artist

Sumer Erek: one of the most remarkable product design team

Marcella Foschi: reuse audio tape and began to weave sonic cloth from the actual tape within the cassettes

Alison Hanly: Contemporary artist

BOOKS

- 1000 New Eco Designs and Where to Find Them, Rebecca Proctor

- Green Design, Buzz Poole (Editor)

WEB/BLOG:

www.claregraham.com www.weburbanist.com www.recycleart.com www.indigoarts.com www.museumca.org/helloagain/contents.html www.ecoartware.com www.organellledesign.com www.designindaba.com www.give-it-bag.com www.volksware.org www.freitag.ch www.zilla.it www.naulilaluisdesign.blogspot.com www.ornjbags.com www.experimentadesign.pt www.momaboma.it(www.flickr.com/photos/momaboma/collections/72157609948668136/) http://www.etsy.com/shop/urchinbags http://etsylabs.blogspot.com/2007/05/long-overdue-fusing-plastic-bag.html www.greendaily.com/photos/funky-uses-for-fused-plastic/589605/ www.kultbag.de www.baumm.com

brief 02 // GIVE ME A BAG! RECYCLED BAG

Introduction In this course you would use the recycled materials as a basis of the creative content and material that you will have to develop your work from. Recyclebag always review and put positive elements of creativity. Bags are made of recycled materials taken from scrap fields.

Brief/delivery Visually we want you to be experimental and to take risks. This is not an easy Project if you are really pushing your understunding of recycled and developing your research, and ideas. We would like to see evidence of your filed research in your book, this can be, drawings, diagrams, photos, sounds and research materials. For this project, we would like you to produce a recycled bag.

You are to also collocate all the visual material produced during the process of producing on your sketchbook and blog.

Starting from these materials (check the list below) you should create one recycling bag - newspaper - pluriball - doormats, sponges, air filters or carpets bags - propylene - old billboard bags or old poster bag

You are required to find inspiration from a range of source material both in reference material in a range of personally relevant books, newspapers, the internet, collected items etc. It is important that there is evidence of a record of this within a research file/sketchbook to accompany any finished work produced for this project.

During three week you will focused on the creation of one bag, but feel free to create more than one, if you have time and you got passionate of this

Tape and Shape crit day

26 October 2009

Material1/ Tape and Shape crit day

Morning , before crit and grading

and some works:

crit | presentation 26.10.2009

Please be prepared to present you work, in a group criti on the final day. You have five min to present your project, final out come and your sketchbooks. You allowed to post photos, ideas, sketches on your blogs as well on the class blog or any other online source available to you.

Brief | project

Visually we want you to be experimental and to take risks. This is not an easy project if you are really pushing your means of visual production and developing a working process from which you develop your work. We would like You to understand your material, choose one or few type of tape that you are comfortable to work with. To start with we would like to conduct a visual research aiming to outline the concept of shape and tape and its practice in communication design.

Stage II We would like you to develop your ideas in your sketchbook. We recommend that you use any tape that is available to you, can be masking tape, photo tape, packing tape or vinyl roles. As well we would like you to take notes, photos, and write comments about each idea in your sketchbook. As well upload the digital files to your BLOG.

Stage III After you complete stage two. We would like you to select two final image from your book and produce one colour tape art that can be, installed in a specific location of your choice. This can be billboard, public space or private space. Any of you may utilise any media available to you without need for any induction to a process.

You are required to find inspiration from a range of source material both in reference material in a range of personally relevant books, newspapers, the web, collected items etc. It is important that there is evidence of a record of this within a research file/sketchbook to accompany any finished work produced for this project.

tape and shape | start 05.10.2009

Introduction In the brief that you will be working on next we are looking at shape and tape, as the basis of the creative content and material that you will develop your work from. We would like you to consider all aspects of sign making. This can be street sign, car sign, bill board, T-shirt and any other aspects of visual communication.

In communication design, sign making offer graphic artist a range of diverse practices, starting with the very basic practice of mark making.

Context Through this project we hope to broaden your ideas about the tape and shape as visual practice. As well as the practical, creative work brief that isbeing set we will today look at examples of the creative use and production of tape art. While most of you probably think that shape and tape are part of your daily life. As you tar vel daily in bangkok you can see a diverse aspects of the use of tape and shape to communicate a particular idea with you.