Aims
demonstrate your ability to value all stages of the design development process
build on your ability to be selective and analytical of your design and presentation
decisions.
The brief here was to address the presentation of work from Projects 1 and 2 and come up with an effective, creative and imaginative way of presenting yarn ideas, concepts and designs.
The result needed to be:
fairly simple, so as not to distract from the actual work
flexible, in order to accommodate the different quantities of yarns that I produced for each exercise
generous, for each yarn or group of yarns, so that each had space to breathe, and make it more pleasurable for the viewer
capable of including the reference material that led to the development of each yarn design or concept
consistent, as the yarns were to be presented as a large collection
clearly labelled, so that the viewer can make sense of what they are seeing and how it relates to other pieces.
With these requirements in mind, I considered how I wanted to present my work and started outlining some possible ideas:
I had produced more than the specified number of yarns for most of the exercises, so needed to find a format that would allow for this.
Initially I thought that white boxes would be the best format, which would lead to the exciting discovery of the contents, like exploring granny's buton box, with a space on the inside lid to show the inspirational source material for the yarn inside, but thought that this would make for an extremely bulky assignment.
I wanted a format that could spread out from a central inspiration in this way:
But I also wanted to keep it simple, so opted for legal folders, which seemed a flexible format. I liked the fact that they used a pink tape to fasten them and that they could expand to fit the required bulk of the assignment.
They also lent themselves to breaking down the assignments into smaller chunks, which I did by using manilla folders within each legal folder, in order to clearly label each part of the assignment so that it made sense for the viewer.
The pink ribbons then inspired me to develop a unique yarn for each folder, linked to the theme of the exercise, with which to fasten it:
Within each folder the yarns are presented simply, on white mount board, sometimes in meaningful groups, and sometimes singly:
Some of these - the bulkier yarns - I raised off the background using extra cardboard. I used adhesive tape and white thread to attach yarns to the boards.
The idea behind this format is that the viewer can take out all the materials and spread them out to see the exercise as a whole, from the source materials, to yarn concepts and designs, and reflections upon those designs.
