Making Sense Of The Design Process

Thursday, 28 April 2016

Silvia Weidenbach talk at GSA

Silvia Weidenbach gave a talk at GSA which I had the opportunity to go. I didn't know much about her work beforehand. I first heard about her in Liesbeth den Besten book On Jewellery, in a section about crossing boundaries in jewellery. Silvia is an amazing speaker, her talk seemed to be more about having a conversation than giving a talk. She explained how she went from a pure craft background into the world of digital, which seems to be her passion now. I found her talk really inspiring since we share the same attraction for incorporating the digital into the craft making.

Silvia Weidenbach, (2015) 'Granny’s Chips'

Playing about...

It is about time to get all the bits and bobs together and finalize designs. The different items that seemed disconnected at the start, begin to find its place and reason to be in the puzzle.

Some snapshots of the playful stage...

work in progress @ Eva Fernandez

Sunday, 7 February 2016

from the virtual to material

I have started materializing the computer designs in small scale projects.. they look like sweets! I think the will be more interesting when I scale them up taking advantage of the light weight of the hollow forms..

Work in progress - Ring series @ Eva Fernandez


Work in progress - Cotton ball set ring @ Eva Fernandez

Saturday, 30 January 2016

the searching...

I found a very interesting thought today by Peter Voulkos:
“The minute you begin to understand what you’re doing it loses that searching quality”

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

air pockets...

Some more exploration of animation possibilities, this time using constrains to create feature on the inflatables. Some examples of units arrangement for jewellery pieces below...

Air pockets - arrangement 1 @ Eva Fernandez

Air pockets - arrangement 2 @ Eva Fernandez

Air pockets - arrangement 3 @ Eva Fernandez

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Photoshoot session of first final pieces December 2015

Here is a preview of some of the photos taken from my final pieces from December 2015 with Maria Przybylska.

Quick Air Release Brooch @ Eva Fernandez, photo taken by Maria Przybylska

Soft Metal Brooch Series @ Eva Fernandez, photo taken by Maria Przybylska

Sunday, 13 December 2015

If only I could bottled this...

The design concept for my current work stands around a fictitious case:

In the current economic system, more and more natural resources are becoming commercial items monopolized by multinational companies. Examples of this are items such as agricultural seeds and water. In a hypothetical future, air can follow suit driven by the increasing levels of air pollution. If so, fresh air could become a lucrative commodity. Hypothetical containers for commercialized fresh air could be in the form of refillable rubber like vessels that people would carry around to sooth the need of fresh air. As so, this container would be an additional artifact to the human outfit.