Eva Workshop
Yesterday I had the pleasure in taking part in a creative exercise with a visiting lecturer.
The exercise was a great thing to do to determine just how creative our brains are when it comes from making an idea from out of nothing.
To start off with we all had to pick a random object from a table which Eva had layed out with some random items that she had brought along with her.
This included rocks, mechanical parts, feathers or even old buttons etc.
I chose to go with this
(Please take not that this is not the original object I used as I could not find a picture of it)
The original item was Gold and black and I had no idea what it was for... I assumed that it was part of a machine as it had a hole through the middle where something might go and a threaded edge at the bottom to screw onto something.
We had to come up with three words which we could use to design around.
I chose:
Creative
Dangerous
Different
Then we needed to write a story about our object.
This could of been anything and about anything as long as the object was the main part of the story.
I wrote: Nollzyy the Nozzle (Yea I named it Shame me) Spent his entire life in a factory carrying out tasks that he had no control over. He dd this... day in... day out... for years and years. he was always sick of his role, but what could he do? He was just a mindless piece of equipment and they were the people controlling him.
But he did have a dream...
A dream so powerful that it managed to keep him going through to the end of the very last minute of everyday. And that dream ladies and Gentlemen was to become the Nozzle to the blowhole of a Whale...
I actually wrote this, I wrote about a whale having jewellery on its blow hole. NO WAIT...
.
.
.
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blowhole bling...
moving on...
We then had to use certain values of our object in order to gain inspiration for designing garments of some sorts. I immediately looked through some books in the library and found some work which I believed that I could use as a base. Christian Doir was a main source with his black and white fashion photography. Along with some steampunk influence as well due to the objects industrial and gold/black look.
The exercise was a great thing to do to determine just how creative our brains are when it comes from making an idea from out of nothing.
To start off with we all had to pick a random object from a table which Eva had layed out with some random items that she had brought along with her.
This included rocks, mechanical parts, feathers or even old buttons etc.
I chose to go with this
(Please take not that this is not the original object I used as I could not find a picture of it)
The original item was Gold and black and I had no idea what it was for... I assumed that it was part of a machine as it had a hole through the middle where something might go and a threaded edge at the bottom to screw onto something.
We had to come up with three words which we could use to design around.
I chose:
Creative
Dangerous
Different
Then we needed to write a story about our object.
This could of been anything and about anything as long as the object was the main part of the story.
I wrote: Nollzyy the Nozzle (Yea I named it Shame me) Spent his entire life in a factory carrying out tasks that he had no control over. He dd this... day in... day out... for years and years. he was always sick of his role, but what could he do? He was just a mindless piece of equipment and they were the people controlling him.
But he did have a dream...
A dream so powerful that it managed to keep him going through to the end of the very last minute of everyday. And that dream ladies and Gentlemen was to become the Nozzle to the blowhole of a Whale...
I actually wrote this, I wrote about a whale having jewellery on its blow hole. NO WAIT...
.
.
.
.
blowhole bling...
moving on...
We then had to use certain values of our object in order to gain inspiration for designing garments of some sorts. I immediately looked through some books in the library and found some work which I believed that I could use as a base. Christian Doir was a main source with his black and white fashion photography. Along with some steampunk influence as well due to the objects industrial and gold/black look.
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