My Final Piece for Containment Project.

This is my Final Piece for the Containment Project. After 4 weeks of blood, sweat and tears, i have to say im actually really proud of my final outcome. It got the layered idea that i wanted to achieve and the play on how at first appears old and worn but with a contemporary twist of quirky motifs and print pattern. i love my boxs!

Zoe Murphy

Zoe Murphy is a designer who uses recycled interior pieces and print to create one off pieces. Her work is inspired by the seaside home town of Margate. Zoe Murphys work had the most influence on me throught his containment project, her pieces of chosen furniture are old but quirky which is what i want to achieve. I love the way that she prints on the furniture as well and the use of colour. I cant use colour in this project as its based upon white and the objects natural colourings but it hink this is something i will look in to again! Her work is amazing!

Heimbach

Heimbach is a German company which forms plastic fabrics for paper mills. i was lucky enough to go and take a look, as i was interested in how lumes work and how large scale fabrics are made. Lumes are machines which weave treads to make fabrics. They currently have 6 lumes which are 10,12 and 14 meters wide, 3 at 10, 1 at 12 and 2 at 14. the lume which is 14 meters wide is currently the widest and fastest lume in europe, it runs at 115 picks per min (picks= every time the weave goes across) and the smallest lume runs about 75picks per min. which in about 24hours the company could produce up to 20meters of fabric. Because the company only produces large scale fabrics there is a down side to it, if a client was to ask for 30meters of fabrics and there was a damage after 20meters the weaver would then have to make to decision to start all over again or if the damage is small and can carry on weaving, the problem with that then is the client who is then using the fabrics could also then get damages in the paper they are producing, which wouldnt be good on the company's behalf as they supply the fabric worldwide. if the weaver was to make the decision to start again it would cost the company thousands, as a meter of fabrics weaved costs £100. The damages can be anything from getting tinys bits of trapped dust to the pattern getting wove wrong, there are many different types of patterns that can be used which is in a computer but the most popular is 7.17 which when looked under a microscope is tiny squares, were theres a bottom layer and a top layer giving it a 3d like effect but the pattern is that tightly woven you can see it by eye. The way the fabrics are checked is the weavers constantly have to go back and fourth feeling the fabric and checking it by eye. it was great to have the chance to see the lumes as i was so suprised how big they are and how much they produce, it was definitely a good experience!

(The lume- Widest and Fastest in Europe)
(Threads getting woven)
(The bobbins)

(The cans)
(The lume Weaving)

My Box's

These are My boxs i decided i wanted to use for my final piece in the Containment Project. I wanted to use draws because i like the idea of them having so many uses like using them as a shelf or stacking them up. Although looking at the boxs now they arent exactly visually pleasing and seem cheap. Which by the time im done with them... They should look completely different and a one off piece.

Miles Donovan

Miles Donovan is a Illustrator based in London and produces commercail work for companys like Elle, Creative Review, Puma and many more. I like a few pieces of work that Miles Donovan has produced, i like the way he overlays images but you can still see the images underneath like a transparency. On this piece of work i like the circles because everythign else seems so transparent and then these are solid shapes, i think this is something i could take forward.

Walls are Talking

I went to the opening night at the whitworth art gallery for the new exhibition walls are talking which is the first major UK exhibition . They show over 30 artist wallpaper designs including Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol. Most of the wallpaper designs showing touchs upon different issues such as gender, racism, sexuality and conflict. I loved this exhibition as there was such a varity to look at, there was prints, 3d wallpaper that was merging off the wall and moving wallpaper which was done on screens. The wallpaper that was showing at this exhibition isnt the kind of wallpaper you would have in your home thou but something you have to see.
The first room you walk in to is covered in a green wallpaper which is leaves but been manipulated to give them a 3d almost origami feel to it, which to walk in to has a impact. The wallpaper also works well in the room though as there are large windows which open on to the park with trees and also witht the flooring being wood, the room gets a feel to it, i think the wallpaper compliments the room well and thought has been took to what wallpaper went in to the first room youd walk in to.
The wallpaper is grouped around the exhibiton as well around the themes of sexuality, commodification, imprisonment and subversion. Which makes it easier for the audience to know what they are looking at. Also the way the exhibition is layed out is well thought of as its like a snake path meaning you dont miss out on any of the work and all wallpaper compliments each other in very area.

Lisa Milroy

Lisa Milroy is a painter who paints everyday objects. I looked at Lisa Milroys work because i like the idea of using everyday objects but painting, printing or drawing them rather then just collecting. i think i could use this idea well in this container project at some point also because i also like the way she paints them in to a grid so that something i could look in to as well rather then just using a simple plain grid like pattern.

Camilla Diedrich

Camilla Diedrich is a Swedish deisgner whos work ranges from wallpaper and lamp shades. most of her work is very minimalistic with very few colours but there are a few wallpaper pieces that uses bold colour, i think her work still links together though as i think it almost has a oriental feel to it. I love the way she uses material, embossing circles and cutting through to get simple but effective designs. Camilla Diedrich has also touched upon the idea of using lighting as well on her wallpaper which gives it a compltely different feel to her work, minimal colours again but still effective. One design that has influenced me the most would be the idea of using a shape and making it look somethign compltely different (first image) when you look at it it looks geometric and very gridded but looking closer it starts to show the pattern of flowers, just from a shape. i really love this idea!

Jenny Bowers