Week 1 The 3r's Project

The 3 R's  Project

·         Aims- to analyse and collate ideas from a variety of research techniques.

·         To develop a coherent design problem with a given brief

·         And to experiment with drawing media.

The 3r’s relate to Record, Respond and Remake. Record means putting what you see hear and feel onto paper as ideas. Respond means acting upon a stimuli. And respond means changing or altering. 

To start the week we each were given an object by Geoff that he had found in pound shops near Stratford, these were things like pack of cards, mini army men, tissues etc.  Once given the new object we sat and simply just looked. Looking at an object is sometimes the best way to develop and remake a product. Initial ideas were the next step, drawing what’s already in front of you and what could be.  

 For my product which was 100 green army figurines I initially thought of how to join them. I knew plastic could be easily melted but this is a dangerous process as plastic gives off bad chemicals in the air.   The little green men create nice shadows under the light when taking photographs this is another aspect I like about the product.

Initial ideas involve:

·         A lamp made from the green men

·         A bowl

·         Christmas decorations

·         A necklace

·         A mirror frame

·         Plastic bin

·         Table mat

The bowl idea was generated when melting the plastic down it seemed to join the figurines together; to make this one would need a hot oven and a mould bowl shaped. The little figurines would be layered around the bowl and left to melt. The cooling process is 1 hour outside then a couple of hours in the freezer.  Jewellery is also a possible solution- joining the soldiers with hot glue is an easy way to make a necklace.