Friday 12th December, 2014

Today I incised aluminium with the similar idea I tried using paper. It was hard to correspond the paper idea using metal as the materials work differently.

I think this idea looks very messy though because of hand cutting.

I'm planning on taking it in Monday and talking to Cerys about it because I'm really stuck!

Tuesday 9th December, 2014

Today was the day of my assessment, I came in for 9 to set my work up ready for my time slot.

I put out the samples I developed from since our last assessment and what I'd produced so far.

My feedback was mostly positive although no one was convinced by my final design idea so they while Cerys was looking through my sample catalog she shown Jenny one of my paper machetes which they both really liked and told me to concentrate on making something simple for the photos and Jenny told me that my project is something I could come back to time and time again to develop which I found very true as there were so many different avenues to go down.

I thought I got a lot of constructive help from this assessment although I'm very lost on how I can develop this idea, so if I feel the same way by next week after trying a few ideas I may have to speak to Cerys again.

Monday 8th December, 2014

Today I went into uni to drop some of my work off before going into the workshop and testing out some enamels I had bought online for future use.

I written my evaluation about my work and how it had developed from my last assessment and went to the library to print for my contextual file, technical notes and sample catalog.

Friday 5th December, 2014

Today I drawn some design ideas for my final assessment and made paper machetes to show my ideas. I decided on a larger version of the samples I'd created using the milling machine.

Thursday 4th December, 2014

Today I played around with using rivets, tomorrow I plan on experimenting with enamelling so I wanted to play around with connections just in case hinges break and soldering doesn't work.

Wednesday 3rd December, 2014

Today I came in and finished making my hinge, I found it easier soldering the sides separately but unfortunately pieces move during soldering and this can cause the pieces to not fold into each other equally, so I had to be really careful and I used binding wire to keep it in place under the heat.

I successfully made 2 hinges today!

Tuesday 2nd December, 2014

Today we had a seminar with Cerys on Craft Theory in preparation for presenting our dissertation proposal, speaking about craft theories and how to break down reading information. We spoke about selecting important information for an essay and using critical thinking. Julie mentioned something really interesting, she described this as 4 steps;

First we're unconsciously incompetent

next we're consciously incompetent

then consciously competent

and hopefully we will end up unconsciously competent.

In the afternoon I attempted making a hinge and prepared cutting pieces to play with, unfortunately I came across a lot of problems doing it the first way Cerys shown me last week so after a few failed attempts I soldered one side and decided to re-visit the technique tomorrow.