Friday 11 May 2012

DSDN 171 Blog 4: Curatorial

Twirling Dresses

Try designing the fluid form as “Twirling dresses”. It is made up ​​of eight semicircular of plastic paper and the thin wire on the back. Twirling Dresses seems extraordinarily elegant under the spotlight and become soft and uniform light because of translucent plastic paper. To make the four triangular shapes by thin wire on the back of with a strong contrast white plastic sheets to form in material, shape and color.

The underlying form of ‘Twirling Dresses’ is based on the Rococo shell, a beauty style of curve. Shell patterns in the Rococo style can best embody the feature of the curves as the “Sauce boat” of the first precedent image. Eight plastic papers of semi-circular in order to expanded into a fan and using a single black thread through which they can remain intact. When they all expanded that overlap part of some the beautiful gradient is one of the point view.

Only the curve is not enough. Strong straight wire make "Twirling Dresses" more contrast is the new idea to get through the second precedent. All the wire out from a point diverges into several triangles, but the overall look is still the fan. After combined such a shape of the wire and plastic shell shape that the point of similarity is a strong contrast. Keep simple, clean and strong.


Reference:

Precedent image 1: Sauce boat, 1745, Designed by Nicolas Sprimont, England, Museum no. M.41-1993

Precedent image 2: Ad-hoc Seat, (n.d.), Retrieved 10th May 2012 from http://pichaus.com/3d-furniture-fluid-form-@341af6290c0166ca4b9ef57f47f2691f/

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