First project at Uni - Impact

Our first project contained a mini 1 week brief with the title Impact, this was to follow on from our visit to the London Design Festival at the V & A, we were divided up into groups, I was in a group of 5, we were then told to create something that had/said Impact.  After a bit of discussion we decided on a anamorphic projection, which is basically a piece of work that appears distorted or broken up unless viewed from a specific view point, a bit like the channel 4 spinning logo that's sometimes showed in between programs.
We then had a debate what the the design should be and finally settled on a lightbulb, to represent thought and for that moment when "oh I get it" (lightbulb moment) we then worked out a design and set about creating it on the wall with the chosen tape, we wanted to paint it but wasn't aloud!

Visit to V&A Design Week

Induction week at Uni!  Started off really stressed and nearly changed course to Fine Art but decided to be sensible and at least try the course before i changed!

So after enrolment on wednesday we had a nice little coach trip to London on thursday to the Victoria and Albert Museum to see the Design Festival exhibits.  I have to say the piece that most sticks in my head was what i saw from the coach window as we went past the tower of London, all the ceramic red poppies spilling out of one of the windows and slowly filling up the moat, just a carpet of red.  Beautiful and quite moving.

Once in the V&A there was loads to see, the permanent pieces and the ones that were on show as part of the London Design Festival.  Can't say i liked all of them or understood all of them!

I think the favourite had to be the Precision & Poetry in Motion by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, 2 gigantic mirrors suspended from the ceiling in one of the galleries.  They made the ceiling almost look 'magical!' They didn't seem to make it any lighter they just created lots of different angles to view the paintings and gave the ceiling a very mesmerising look.

The first room i went in was called Disobedient Objects, which was a series of pieces varying from posters to pin badges, art made from rubbish, to items made by prisoners and demonstration placards.    All the pieces were to show how creative people/designs can be in the area of political activism and were people are trying to achieve some kind of social awareness or change.

Anti Apparteid badges

Far to many other exhibits to go into detail on, if you get a chance to visit its well worth it.

The Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, each poppy represents a fatality during war.  Created by ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper.