Part 3

Level 3.30 DVCInitiate design ideas through exploration

A Starting pointexamine a feather/bird closely

Activity

Starting point exercise Slice, displace, deface, fold, repeat,

compress, repeat.

Interrogate and re-generate ideas

students ability to do: abstraction, re-combination, tessellation, exaggeration, rotation, inversion, translation, translocation, deconstruction from a given starting experience

re-combination, tessellation, exaggeration, rotation, inversion, translation, translocation, deconstruction?

re-combination, tessellation, exaggeration, rotation, inversion, translation, translocation, deconstruction?

Where does it lead to: tattoosCulturally located: Samoan sleeve tattoo

Where could it lead to: spatial - entrance way

Initiate design ideas through exploration in a cultural context

Examples of integration

Hussein Chalayan

Fashion designerDo you have some special rituals before you start to create?• I am a curious person and an ideas

person, everything I do is imbued with my curiosity and love of exploring ideas. If I had to define my philosophy in a just few words, it would be an exploration, a journey, storytelling – it is a combination of these things with suggestions and proposals at the same time. It’s a quest into certain areas and proposing a way of looking at something.

Where do you seek for inspiration?• I am inspired by anthropology, m

George LucasC-3PO

Programme considerations

• This can be used as stand alone project• Linked with 3.31 – develop a visual exhibition that

exhibits a design outcome to an audience• Linked with either 3.32 Resolve a spatial design

through graphics practice or 3.33 resolve a product design through graphics practice

• Lead to 3.3 conceptual design • It does not need to be a fully resolved conceptual

design (towards design ideas)