Jelly Fish Inspiration and Research

Jelly Fish Light

Product Design

This is my interoperation of a natural form lighting brief of a jelly fish. 

My jelly fish above is constructed with clear plastic which was asked for by the brief and also I have used fish hooks to constructed the two pieces together. This allows the design to be bought together in a way which makes the materials meaningful. I was either going to use these or a fishing rope. Now after completing my project I have a lot more ideas which I would like to pursue with this. Like making all the tentacles warped and stretched so that they look  like they are in water. I would have also liked to but some stronger light in these and make the tentacles light up more then they have.

When I was producing this I was looking at some work by other people.

Markus Johansson 

His work is similar to the work done by me in terms of his theme. When I talked about warping the design he was my inspiration for this as I wanted to make the legs twist more and appear to be out of place.

Octopus Inspired

(interesting-cirrata-lamp-by-markus-johansson, Nicedecors.com. Markus Johansson)

Once I had seen this design I instantly though it was a artist which I would like to contined looking at. Although this piece above is a table or floor lamp my design was hopping to head in this direction. The way that the legs are all touching the ground are something that really works for his piece as it seems to ground the work and doesn't appear to be floating. The piece of mine is not quite grounded as I wanted it to be floating to the eye.

Towry Russel 

This artist is another one who works of the same idea of the jelly fishes freeness. The work by this artist is quite amazing as the way certain pieces are designed. The idea behind his work is it takes on the mythological character Medusae. The work bellow relates to my design for a lot of reasons which can be seen. 

Medusae 

(medusae-beautiful-pendant-lamps-inspired-by-jellyfish. Nicedecor.com. Towry Russell)

As you can see there are a lot of simulates to the jelly fish especially in the center image. The one I find the best is the last image as to me it is more of a design you could see in houses. the over all balance and esthetics is a lot stronger then the other two. What I really should have considered in my own design is the layering of tentacles like you can see in the centre image as this would have given my design more detail about it.  What I am liking about these is that the work is in a white plastic which I think might have been another fact that could have worked with my own project. 

Led Jelly Fish Lamps 

Artist Unknown

(floating-led-jellyfish. Cubeme.com)

This piece by a unknown artist was a piece that I came across late into my project of making my light. When I started my own project of adapting a light to a natural form I though about the way that jelly fish relate to the ocean and seem to be drifting within the water. I liked this idea and wanted to make a interesting lighting feature out of it. The Piece above is a nice idea of a jelly fish light which is using the colors of the fish themselves. The down side to theses are that they look very plastic would look nice with the tentacles floating and swaying. 

Video Assessment

(Please Find the link to my Video Assessment to the top of the page)


The video I presented for the influences to my project I thought I did quite well as it seemed to communicate the idea of my influences on certain parts of the building. I found the way I photographed the building I communicated the idea quite well. I feel that because I did my own photography I could get what I wanted to and focus on areas I find important. I was lucky with the weather conditions as it really worked in my favor as the images came out bright and crisp.

I feel that while subtitles are a clear way to understand the information that I was trying to get across I choose to go with reading text I had written and giving a giving a voice over. This enabled me to talk to my slide without people having to read the words an allows them to watch the slides which I found to be more interesting.

However a down fall of it was that I ran out of time to interview the lead architect on the Iron bank building myself. I would have found if I had interviewed him I would have gotten a better representation of information then I did with the information given by the women who did the interview. If I had interviewed the architect I would have moved around the site to get him to talk about certain aspects of the building as such the way that each area is off set from another due to this being my main focal point.

Artist Model

Research Images

I didn't really have any artist model in such but had a bank of images that I referred to and built from.

Floating shipping containers was my original idea in terms of if they had fallen off a boat. After I had been making my model the Rena happened and I found out what the actually happens to containers after they had fallen. The idea of fallen shipping containers came to me while I was going though my photos on my laptop and I had taken photos of the containers at the Viaduc.

The idea of the pallet came from me brain storming about shipping containers and the way they use them. Pallets turned out to be a major part of my design and can clearly relate to the idea of shipping. The wooden pallet is yet another item which is a universal size which is world wide, Same with the shipping containers. 

(Images retrieved from google by google search "Pallet Architect" from google.co.nz)
(Rena Images are from "New Zealand Herald")

Orexart

The Oedipus Rex Gallery (Orexart) has been one of my favorite galleries that I have visited though out the year, The White walls of Orex gallery often gets filled with bright abstract paintings which really makes a statement upon this gallery. One of my favorite shows that I have seen at this gallery would have been one of the shows that I visited recently.

Christina Popovici

Gallery Site: Orex Gallery Site

Floating Cemetery

Architect Research

Floating Cemetery is a unquie idea by architect Tin Shun of Hong Kong has developed this idea which saves space in a busy city.

This floating structure looks to be amazing with the scale and the design of the platform. Love the idea and would feel like a nice space to spend our after life.

Tin Shuns project of the floating cemetery is a lot like the floating escape that I have been working on. There are many elements which boost similarities to each others work. The work by Tin Shun is away from the shore line and has no attachment which allows people to gain access from the shore by foot. The only way to this is by boat or other flotation device. This idea is very similar to mine with the same idea. Although Tin Shun space is very large in space the idea of a area were people can spend time with the past is also another element which can be shared with the escape. The area on the platform is very large and boost lots of space for the human an also can cater for a lot more people then mine space.

More info at : http://designfolio.co.nz/_blog/Design_Folio_NZ/post/Want_to_be_Buried_at_Sea/

Written By Claire Sullivan - Tuesday, June 08, 2010, Designfolio.com

Ideas and themes

Ideas and themes

My interior Design Project was about shipping containers and the other ways of using them in relation to the human interaction instead of the way they are generally used in terms of moving goods. I was also looking at using another object used in the moving goods theme by looking at the shape and idea of pallets.

Oxford Dictionary Meaning of: Pallet

noun

• 1 a portable platform on which goods can be stacked, stored, and moved.
• 2 a flat wooden blade with a handle, used to shape clay or plaster.
• 3 a projection on a machine part , serving to change the mode of motion of a wheel.
• (in a clock or watch) a projection transmitting motion from an escapement to a pendulum or balance wheel.

Oxford Dictionary meaning of: Shipping

noun

[mass noun]

• ships considered collectively , especially those in a particular area or belonging to a particular country:the volume of shipping using these ports
• the transport of goods by sea or some other means:the shipping of his works abroadwine shipping[as modifier] :
  

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Design Folio Likes!

Architecture on Design Folio

Architecture and interior design brings a lot of ideas to my head in terms of the way it makes a statement on a site. Here I have a couple of my favorite pieces of architecture found on a design site called Designfolio which I check weekly for design ideas and to see what is going on in the world of design and art.

The Salvador Dali Museum is a modern piece of architecture that to me makes more of a statement when you are inside then out. The building is a true master piece that would to me be one of the sites that I would love to visit. 

The building looks amazing in the area it is placed and really fits in with the soft curves that make the focal point of the building. The mixure of the two main materials of the soft curving glass and the way interacts with hard sharp corners of the concrete base structure. 

More links to other images at 

http://designfolio.co.nz/_blog/Design_Folio_NZ/post/The_Salvador_Dali_Museum/

Written By Anna Kidman, Tuesday 22 February 2011,  Design Folio.com