Concepts Project!

Bryony, Ed, Jahangir, Sophie, Sarah!

Brainstorm!

Everyday  Objects  

Watch  

Soap  

Shoelaces  • Aglet  

Bags  

Socks  

Pencil  

Tissue  

Pegs  

Bo?le  

Paperclip  

Toothpaste  

Phone  

Initial response to the given brief, with ideas about what everyday objects we

could explore.

Areas to Research!

Four  Objects  We  

Explored  

Soap  

Watches  

Shoelaces  

Tea  Bag  

From the first brainstorm, we narrowed down the potential

pathways we could explore to 4 items, we each chose one to briefly

research and market to the rest of the group.

We mainly looked into the history

and journey of these items and any other interesting facts we came

across.

Brief Overview of Topics !•  Soap/ Earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap like materials dates back to

around 2800B.C. in Ancient Babylon. Soap is made by mixing animal and vegetable oils or fats with lye dissolved in water. (Animal and vegetable fats are made up of fatty acids and glycerin) Chemical Reaction of these ingredients results in a complete substance of soap. First large scale manufacture of soup during 15th - 20th Century.

•  Teabags/ Tea is the most popular beverage in the world, first drunk under the Emperor Shen-Nung around 2737B.C. Created by an unknown inventor, a tea shredder sliced tea leaves into thin slips. First tea bags were hand sewn by muslim bags. 1903/ 1904 Commercially produced and marketed by the New Yorker Thomas Sullivan, inventing a Machine to Sew them.

•  Shoelaces/ First metal eyelet on a shoe appeared in 1840 - before that it was always buckles. U.S.A during the Civil War - Shoelace braid still used today, only changed materials. Now we have no Knot laces which act as a safety feature, preventing children and the elderly from tripping on un-tied laces benefiting also by time saving. Lacing of shoes originated from leather bounding of the sole of a sandal from around the ankle and the top of the foot made of raw hide.

•  Watches/ Origins of Watches and how they have developed overtime. History- 1838: Louis Audemars invents winding and setting mechanism. -> 1987: Tisot introduces the two timer (a watch displaying both analog and digital displays)

Chosen Topic Area!Shoelaces From reviewing our findings and looking at one another's forwarded cases we felt the strongest and most interesting topic to continue exploring was 'Shoelaces'. We chose this everyday object over the other options as shoelaces was a less of an obvious everyday object that people would notice day to day and regard highly of on a daily basis, by taking choosing this topic there are also a lot of areas to explore which many people would not already have pre-knowledge on such as its original origins. We decided as a group to focus our exploration and research for our concepts project on 'Shoelaces'.

Independent  Research  

Gangs  and  Subcultures  

Stories  Involving  Shoelaces  

AlternaEve  Uses  

Process  of  How  They  Are  Made  

History  of  Shoelace  

Types  of  Knots  and  Pa?erns  

Origins of Shoelace Timeline!

Research: Stories Involving Shoelaces !1.  Thief left hanging by shoelaces; a bungling thief had to call 999 for help

after a blotched getaway left him dangling from a fence by his shoelaces 2.  Laces save TA soldier from Taliban sniper; Lace Corporal Michael Davies,

31, bent down to tie up his laces a split-second before he was fired on 3.  Movie prank led to marriage of 60 years; I saw this pretty girl sitting in front

of me and she had long beautiful plaits which were flowing over the back of her chair. So I took my shoelace out of my shoe and I tied her plaits to her seat,' said Mr Johns." "Imez believes she may have threw the shoelace back at him."

4.  Man run over by his own truck; A 42-year old man was injured Monday night when he was run over by his own pick-up truck, the man said he was backing up with the door open when his shoelaces got caught under his tyre and pulled him out of the truck.

5.  Prisoner used shoe lace to escape from Swansea court, a prisoner has admitted escaping from the crown court in Swansea after using a shoelace to tamper with a lock.

Research: Process of Making Shoelaces!

Research: Gangs & Subcultures !The relationship between shoelaces and subcultures depends massively on the type of shoe worn. A popular style boot used by the skinheads and other gangs are the Dr. Marten brand, which originally had yellow bootlaces. A particular gang in San Antonio, America, would wear blue or black laces with British Knight tennis shoes, to represent their initials, BK – Blood Killers. In Canada during the 1960’s, when more ethnic groups moved there, it created a lot of disruption between the French speaking and English speaking Canadian’s. It cause problems in schools, gangs would wear red shoelaces to proclaim their identity, The schools had previously banned the wearing of specific styles of jackets, caps, scarves running shoes etc; then they banned the coloured shoelace menace. Canada became a land of coloured shoelaces after Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, invited in refugees from all over the world. Every new group provided with their own special colour of shoelaces. Henceforth, there was to be no officially recognized Canadian culture.

Research: Alternative Uses!Acts of violence: In prisons shoelaces are taken away from you in prisons in case they are used to hurt another person or to hurt yourself Used to trip people up Conkers: Shoelaces are often used to hang conkers from in the classic game of conker battles Fashion: Tied as bracelets, necklaces or hairbands. Art: Frederiko Uribe made an entire set of paintings made of shoelaces Other uses found online: A toy for a bored cat (suggested by greenplanet), a way to hang decorations, something to braid into your hair, to tie around your drink to identify it from others, ribbon when wrapping a present, use lace fibres as tinder to start a fire, to pull a table cloth tighter.

Research: Types of Knots & Patterns!

Aims and Ideas!

Outcome  Ideaa  

Magazine  • Page  Spread  

Flyer  

Leaflet  

Posters  

Post  Cards  Moving  Image/

AnimaEon  

Web  Design  

Stencil  

3D  Packaging  • InteracEve  Object  

Visual Ideas and Sketches!

Design Ideas!

Plans!•  Next steps for our project is to develop some of our visual ideas,

building on a concept based from our research. We will be narrowing down what we have found and implement this into a design which an audience can interact with.

•  One of our strong outcome Ideas is to create an information leaflet which an audience can interact with un-tying or threading through holes with a shoelace so that it engages people with the information and facts about shoelaces.

We hope you love shoelaces as much as we do now! !