3DD - Practical Design&Making

                                              (Design Ideas, Author's Own)

The morning of the second day on the 3DD transition we began to think about creating structures that would hold up 3 balls using 20 pieces of spaghetti and a glue gun. To begin with i thought the task would be impossible and prove extremely challenging, not only to create a structure without snapping the spaghetti but to actually hold the balls up. The image to the left show cases the initial design ideas i had for this task, although the task the day before taught us how create designs in a non conventional way i decided to be more practical. What i later realised when coming to construct my product was that i had drawn them in a Two-Dimentional perspective which in fact gave the structure no support. The images below show the structure standing alone photographed from different angles, i have used the lighting in such a way so that interesting shadows are created. I have also photographed the structure with some architectural figures to put some sort of perspective of scaling into place, i feel that the use of the figures gives my structure another meaning that it was not initially designed for. 

(Pasta Structure Holding Up Balls, Author's Own)

Here shows my structure fulfilling its purpose [holding the balls off the ground] the architecture of the structure works well and meets the objectives: balls are elevated off the ground without touching... My final product doesn't actually represent one of my initial design illustrations but i have created a combination of several ideas to create one. I created two levels, one larger one for 2 balls to sit on and one smaller slot for a single ball, i also added in a stand for the structure so that it could balance. Level one consisted of a square platform strengthened by multiple layers of spaghetti and supported by two sections in the middle that helped to hold the balls in place. This section was going to be my only section to begin with, but i concluded that it was not visually interesting enough. So i went on to design Level two, this was made up of a triangular base supported by three stands starting from the ground [acting as legs] and working their way up to then support Level one. I added in one more stand to help my product stand up better, a problem i faced when constructing was that the glue gun was melting, i overcame this problem by taking my time and being patient. Once combining the two concepts and adding extras, i think the piece looked fairly interesting and aesthetically pleasing, especially when the primary coloured balls were added to the product. The images remind me of the minimalistic designs by artist Piet Mondrian.

(Mondrian, Piet, Place de la Concorde)

Piet Mondrian

(Mondrian, Piet, Avond: The Red Tree)

Mondrian is an extremely influential artist whose work is very minimalistic and linear. His style is developed from landscape pictures to geometric abstract works of a most precise nature. He began by painting incredibly detailed and lifelike landscapes - mostly trees - subject to experimenting with the pointillist technique and was then promptly influenced by the cubist movement. Mondrian carried on with this style until the point of abstraction and step by step began to evolve his own minimalistic style which he called Neo-Plasticism, this style restricted him to three primary colours and grids of horizontal and vertical lines on a white background.