Final Poster

For my final poster I chose a black background to make the shapes and text really stand out, I arranged the shapes together so you could read the exhibition and venue clearly but so that the shapes weren't just spread out in a long line...

It took a couple of attempts to arrange the shapes properly so that you can read it all clearly, but I think it worked out well when I had it all arranged properly...

Working Towards My Poster

To create my poster for the celebration of 100 years of G F Smith I needed to develop on my hanging piece to create a new look. I decided to tone down my final piece and keep the poster even simpler. As my final piece is fairly basic and simple I thought it would look a bit odd if my poster was filled with complicated paper models, so I decided to just use one of the simple three shield shapes on its own rather than attaching a few together...

For my poster I decided to use four of these and to make them a part of the text on the poster. On one of the shapes I cut 100 in the centre of the shapes instead of the usual cut out section...

I then wrote the rest of the title of the exhibition across two more shapes and then Design Museum on the fourth. For the date I decided that as it was a celebration of paper it would be fun to use paper for the rest of my text instead of using a digital font, so I cut the date out of pink card and placed it underneath the four shapes. This includes paper in the title as well as showing and image of what the exhibition is about...

Final Hanging Piece

After looking through my experiments I decided the fastening I liked best was the three of the three shield shapes fastened together by the side. I decided to keep it just down to the three fastened together and made four of these shapes, I planned to suspend them with thin string from each other, but with them facing alternate ways, so the top one would face up, the second one down etc...

This is what my final outcome for my hanging piece looked like...

I quite liked this outcome, it was difficult to get a good photograph of it as it's a hanging piece it was constantly moving, but I think it has worked well.

First Attempt For A Final

I decided to experiment further with the last fastening of attaching three together by the side, to continue the experiment I decided to see what would happen if I kept attaching these three shield shapes together by the sides, I started by attaching three together, one behind and one underneath to see if this would give me bigger more interesting effect...

I then started adding more of the three shield shapes in by attaching them to the side of another shape where they would fit, it started to look quite interesting and carry off my floral theme a bit with some of the inspiration from atoms too...

I decided to fit in as many as I could to make a big kind of spiky ball shape from this, I thought this could look like a whole atom or the head of a flower. When I had attached all I could fit I came out with this outcome...

I didn't really like it in the end, I think I got a bit too carried away with it and attached too many so it looked a bit messy and crowded. When I showed Richard Sweeney he said it reminded him of a radiolarian, which is a minute sea creature so I decided to look into this...

I think it does look similar, this would have been a great thing to look into before I started my final so I could of made a better plan of how to build it rather than just seeing what would happen...

However I'm still not happy with this as my final piece so I'm going to continue with experiments...

Fastenings

Continuing with the last experiment I did in the workshop of the three shield shapes together I decided to experiment with ways of fastening some together...

To start this experiment I made three separate shapes made up of three shield shapes and experimented with ways of balancing and attaching them together...

I started by piling them on top of each other but face down, making them three layers high. I quite liked this, I think it looked quite interesting but it was a bit difficult to see where I could go with this fastening as it seemed quite limited...

I then tried doing it the other way round, by balancing them on top of each other facing upwards, this actually looked a lot better and  more interesting, it continued my floral theme quite well, but again it seemed quite limited as to what I could do with it after piling a few on top of each other...

To try and make the fastening more creative and interesting I tried fastening them together in alternate ways, so there would be one facing up with one facing down on top of it, and then one facing upwards again on top of that one, continuing for a pattern. This fit in well for the theme of repeat, however when I tried to fasten them together it was really difficult and almost impossible to get them to stay in place without moving or falling off...

Moving on from the idea of piling these shapes on top of each other I decided to see what effect it would create if I fastened them next to each other on the sides of the shapes. This turned out to be much easier to hold them together without them moving or falling off, this would then allow me to experiment further with this fastening to create a more interesting piece for my final...