When you or I look at a teacup we think “put some Earl Gray in it and a couple lumps of sugar”. When the innovative duo behind domestic construction sees a teacup they think “let’s make a hanging lamp out of this”…and that’s just what they did. The “ted” lights are a unique and creative option for anyone looking to light their life with style. The vintage ceramic or porcelain teacups, acquired from flea markets and thrift stores all over the country. They also do wallpaper design and manny others. Check their work out!

http://www.domestic-construction.com/press/

All over the world millions of burnt light bulbs are thrown into garbage. 

How about recycling them into innovative, cool lighting designs? 

You can see more at: http://www.bulbs-unlimited.com/gallery/index.htm

 Designer Jeremy Grove , his ideas are so simple yet intriquing….

Lampshades that slowly fan out using the heat generated by a light bulb. It reminds me of plants and how they open towards the light. 

Creating lamp shades that can be a flat hand out too. I am experimenting with interacting pieces of work that people will want to keep and use. 

More of my mobile madness! love the shapes and shadows. 

Creating paths of light really can look great if you go about it in the right way. Creating my mobiles i was able to capture different levels of light and shadows. 

I have started making my own books relevant to my project on silence. I have used my own pictures of hanging mobiles to create the shapes and images. These are so nice to make and are quick if you know how to put them together. 

The first of manny to come i hope =-) 

Guest Lecture

Nikki from last year came in to give us a talk about placements and her life after uni. She is self imployed and has started selling manny designs including cushions. The advise given by her was to know your current affairs, use the environment and be yourself. (www.nicolarowlands.co.uk)

Guest Lecture

mandi goodier & libby scarlett from last year came in & gave a talk about their life being in third year and what we should expect from our final year. they showed some of their work and explained where some of their inspirations came from. one of the best advise they gave was to get out of the sketchbook and actually make things. 

Visit to the Walker Art Gallery

'Cow Mutations'

One image i was attracted to was Cow mutations by Tim Head. Generated by the image on a supermarket milk carton, it explores a synthetic imagery only tenuously connected to the 'natural' world', uncovering simulated textures and shapes in which, silently, anything can be changed into anything else. His paintings are all based on found things, enlarged and then projected onto canvas. He emphasizes the gap between our materialist 'packaged' society and the natural world on which it depends. 

Tate Liverpool Day Out

I went to Tate Liverpool to see 'Joyous Machines'. The exhibition saw Jean Tinguely's work and how it inspired Michael Landy's creations.

I liked the rough drawings Tinguely did in to understand his vision opposite to Landy's detailed drawings depicting the same mechanisms.

Rollerball

In a futuristic society where corporations rule, the violent game of Rollerball is used to control the population by demonstrating the failure of individuality. One player, Jonathan E., rises to the top, and fights for his personal freedom and threatens the corporate control. I really like the film shots and the sense of loosing or having control between the characters.

Johnny Hardstaff Lecture- Tuesday 6th October 

Our first guest lecturer of the year i was pleased to see some inspirational work from Johnny Hardstaff 'He loves to re-personalize commercial work and the process of selling products but hates corporate businesses'.

 His power point presentation really showed his skill in drawing and how you can make animation through individual drawings and then manny hours on photoshop moving each component one at a time. He told us for his first animation it took him around six months to finnish. Tedious, but when you have no experience of moving image these pieces of animation are amazing.

Johnny Hardstaff- "we all direct people in some form or way"

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

French Art Director of ELLE rendered MUTE by stroke - the amazing true story of Jean Dominique Bauby 

I really enjoyed this emotional film. The film work and lighting really portrays how this man feels being trapped in a body and not able to speak. The blurred lighting and film work of a man in a old diving suit surrounded by water was a good representation of how he feels. 

I love this map! Something so simple made into something stunning. 

Paper cut Paris map

famillesummerbelle.typepad.com/ fsblog/2009/04...

John Walsh day project at university. 

Went out around manchester to be an investigator. From the pictures i took we then were put into pairs to create something out of our combined work. This one day project made us think outside the box, and explore shapes, items, colours from our environment that can create something amazing. John Walsh's work really shows the personal approach but still commercial and can sell. 

conveys dream like clouds. Mia Pearlman has been busy, with multiple installations around the world. 

Hand cut paper cloud 

picocool.com/art/ hand-cut-paper-cloud-artwork/

Papaer-prime cuts

This is the big and small of paper cutting. Delicate cuts balance out 

a room full of cutting.Chris Natrop’s work

28tries.com/blog/2009/ 04/03/paper-prime-cuts/

I love the manipulation of paper and this really shows of the beauty that can be captured within the material. 

Y. Nishimura makes beautiful folded op-art.

http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2005/11/28/paper/

Making packaging is my new favorite thing to do. All in a days work!

The making of my mobiles- silence project (again on the path of light theme)