Working steps
Selection word
Word exploration / Brainstorming
Word elements collection
Typeface exploration / selection
Color selection
Poster design
Poster display
Working steps
Selection word
Word exploration / Brainstorming
Word elements collection
Typeface exploration / selection
Color selection
Poster design
Poster display
Working steps
Selection word
Word exploration / Brainstorming
Word elements collection
Typeface exploration / selection
Color selection
Poster design
Poster display
Working steps
Selection word
Word exploration / Brainstorming
Word elements collection
Typeface exploration / selection
Color selection
Poster design
Poster display
Case study
Case study
Case study
Case study
Case study
Final work direction
Field exploration
In the past few weeks, I have collected different soil samples from the land in the city center and on the hillside. I decided to go to the beach this week. As a coastal city, Edinburgh has very soft beaches. In fact, sand is also a kind of soil which is often forgotten by people. Although there is often no vegetation on the beach, beaches are habitats for a suite of unique creations. Many of them have evolved to withstand the constant pressure present in coastal ecosystems. Intense sunlight, crushing waves, salt water, and tide related drops and floods are just a few challenges beach-dwelling animals constantly face. Sea birds, crabs, corals, sea stars, turtles, and urchins are some of the animals that rely on healthy beach systems to live, breed, and eat.
So I collected some sand this week, and I'll put them in later designs.
Handclap
Resin sculpture
Material
Draft
1.Mix hardener and resin in the ratio of 1:1 and stir for 5 minutes
2.Load the soil into the mold
3.Heat with a flame to reduce air bubbles
4.Wait for the resin to be fixed and take it out
5.Put the small square into the big square mold
Choosing to add a layer of resin outside the soil resin can not only further express the meaning of my "specimen", but also convey that in modern life, people and soil are like a layer of glass, we forget to feel it, forget to observe it. You can see every detail, but you can't really feel it.
Printmaking
1.Draw a sketch on paper and transfer it to soft rubber
2.Carving texture
3. prepare color
4.Color soft rubber
Among the four prints I have drawn, one is the perspective view of the grassland soil, one is the surface pattern of the grassland, one is the perspective view of the valley, and the other is the surface view of the valley. I hope to convey different feelings through different perspectives, and express aesthetic feeling with abstract patterns and lines
Digital work
The pattern collection and recreation
Laser printing sculpture
First I found Arthur's Seat in Google Maps and checked the version with contour lines (this can perfectly divide Arthur's Seat into several layers)
Then I drew different patterns for each layer according to the contour lines in the software
You can see that they overlap each other
But I think it is meaningless to just copy an Arthur's seat, which cannot reflect the part of my own design, so I decided to cut it from the inside like an apple. In this way, I can show not only its surface, but also its interior. If I can successfully print them out, I hope to draw some patterns on the inner glass to represent different strata, so that it may be a more personal artwork
After that, I'll take it to the studio for casting, and finally it will be made of transparent glass
Next step
Book design，poster deigns and so on，try collect and connect all my stuff.