3D Breath
3D Concentration
3D Quality
2013年5月12日 星期日
2013年3月12日 星期二
Concentration
What
is the central idea of your concentration? Chance Chen
3D:I was inspired by ordinary expensive
jewelry, which I have always have thought accessories comes in as an important
part to complete your whole look. Then later on thought about how hard could it
be to make all those pieces, you must have full knowledge, whole set of tools
and source of material, that would be hard to get in your hands without being a
professional or an accessories design or jewelry design student. Besides,
although high street jewels can be cheap and look good, but personally I often
feel like they are hard to maintain comparing to their price. There are times
that I bought a piece into my collection but I only get to wear it once or
twice, because that the detail pieces come off, or the color has faded due to
the reason that it is not real metals. On another hand, for metals and crystals
that are real, it’s kind of hard to find extraordinary designs using those
expensive material, because often they are counted as rare pieces and extremely
expensive. The trend in fashion lately, obtain over-sizing designs or over the
top designs, but often they look good but weighting up to their price and how
long a high street piece can maintain without ruin pieces here and there within
a couple of times wearing, it is not balanced. Therefore, I came up with the
idea of making jewelry out of paper, molding plastic paper. It’s very cheap,
although it won’t be something you can keep a long time, but it definitely can
race with the fast changing trend, balance out the worth of the art work pieces
and it’s pricing. Of course that this wouldn’t be the most realistic thing to
do marketing wise, but I thought it would definitely be something that’s
interesting to make, and maybe also at the same time reminding people the idea
that I’m trying to bring out, it’s never about the price of a piece of artwork,
but it’s the design that worth the most; as my own view on the designer brands,
although it’s material are worth the price, but it’s never about the name and
fame that comes with it, it’s always about the designs that attracts me.
How
does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea?
3D:In the concentration part, we have to
make 6 to 12 pieces of work, which I’m thinking of making 6 pieces, due to that
in my concentration collection, there are a lot of details and craftsmanship in
within. In each piece of my work, it’s an idea on a design, so that explains
why I have usually two to three works in each piece. For example: In piece
number 1, I have taken gold cardboard paper, black cardboard paper and shredded
gold wrapping paper, turning them into a chain necklace, a oversized gold watch
and a chain bracelet. I would consider this piece of artwork as the piece that
brings out the most of the main idea. Gold jewelries are expensive, Apart from
the design, that’s the first thing that we notice, therefore, I thought I would
be the most ironic piece out of all, that the fact I’m replacing something
expensive to cheap pieces of paper. In piece number 2, I was inspired by the
Braque style pattern and lace, so I used simply black cardboard paper and cut
out pieces of designs that I drew out before hand. Then I sewed the pieces of
designs into one, making it into a necklace and a bracelet, after chaining the
finish pieces into one by using cheap thin chain, giving the work a more
wearable aspect. In piece number three, I cut out red cardboard paper and made
hollow design around the design, then later cut out the molding plastic gold
paper into the shapes that fits into the hollow part of the red paper, turning
them into dramatic necklace, bracelet and earrings. I had some criticism along
the way, being told that I should consider making pieces that look 3D without
even wearing them, so in piece number 4, I took more molding plastic paper in
gold, cut them out into shredded like, then cut out a small bit of gold
cardboard paper, cover it with industrial use quick dry glue, and stick on the
shredded paper making them stand, creating this spiky and bling piece as
necklace, ring and earrings. In piece number 5, I continued working on the gold
molding plastic paper and cut them out into half butterfly wing into different
size that I have drawn out earlier. Then I took one shred of gold cardboard and
cover it with the quick dry glue, then stick on the half pieces of butterfly
wings, creating this effect that not only it looks sculpturally interesting,
the plastic wings also reflects the lights while moving them, which it really
stands out and I would say it’s my favorite so far out of the collection. In
piece number 6, I’ve taken silver molding plastic paper…
2013年2月20日 星期三
Astrid Anderson
Astrid Anderson
Astrid Anderson is a street wear in the
luxury end Danish designer, who I thought is the most talented up rising
designer that I look up to, I like almost every of her designs, which it can
been worn unisex. Colors she uses are simple, even similar materials, but the
texture and the color correspond to each other, even though it’s street wear,
it doesn’t give you a feeling of not classy or inappropriate for any occasions.
It’s the details and overall feel to her quality of design that attracts me;
with out being common or extremely odd, those are practical pieces with a
design edge. She graduated in Royal College of Art MA course in London, being
the best of her class, she soon being spotted on her graduation show and
received a huge acclaim from the industry and starting her own label. In 2010
she was a finalist in ITS Nine as well as being nominated as Talent 2010 by
Italian Vogue; it is rare that street wear can be at the high fashion luxurious
end, which I though it’s pretty amazing. She also won the Brioni Creativity and
Innovation Award and the River Island MA student Bursary Award designing 3
looks for the high street retailer. Now she works in both London and
Copenhagen, which both cities gives her different inspirations, which I think
it’s also amazing to work in the cities you like and inspired to, doing the job
you adore, be with the people you love; that’s like the best thing a person can
have I thought. Initially I found her brand by looking at her work being worn
on Rocky ASAP, which I thought the presentation, was edgy and not cliché like
the ordinary street wear we seeing everyday. Entering her website, the
basketball net made from chain looked amazing and I knew straight after that I
would love her works, not making clothes, but also making artworks in the
industry bring in fresh ideas.
2013年2月5日 星期二
Zomb X Classical art T-shirt
Zomb X Classical
Art T-shirt
While I was browsing
the street wear design websites, there was one article that caught my eye, a
designer who put Classical Art prints on T-shirt, which I thought it was
genius. Classical arts have been relevant for centuries, but who would ever
thought of wearing them instead of hanging them on the wall?
Not only the
Classical arts, they have took many other patterns like the Thailand four face Buddha,
India’s religious elephant, roses etc. as their inspiration. They also repeated
the patterns at the right places, which the T-shirt looks more interesting and
unique.
Then later on I thought
about the color fading collage that I have been working on, if I take the
pattern as the print of the fabric, I could actually do a collection from that,
which I thought it would be worth trying after my AP project.
2013年1月30日 星期三
Vadis Turner
Vadis Turner
A New York artist who attended Boston
University, she was fascinated by the possibilities presented by traditional
handicraft materials to define and contradict gender roles by creating
desirable objects and becoming objects of beauty has long been the work of
women. Her craft is like her image, is “a measure of a woman's worth and tangible
evidence of her time” she said.
What caught my eye initially was her ribbon
collection; she tied different colors and width of ribbons on the canvas, creating
the look of ribbons coming out from the canvas in a beautiful way. Some times
she uses colors of the same palate, but some times she choose couple of colors
that would stand out from the rest, representing something. Later on I went on
to her website and saw her other works, she gather those jewels of gold or
silver color and put them together making a art work out of it, which I thought
her works are not only nice to look at but also meaningful. She is also good at
setting up scenes, using her aspect of beauty, messy of it’s own way, the
colors and materials works with each other really well, creating the
atmosphere.
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