DESIGN PRACTICE. IT'S YOUR CHOICE. DESIGN DEVELOPMENT.

I chose a proverb "Put Your Best foot forward"and decided to do a 3 dimensional installation. At the beginning it seemed really confusing and I had to sort out a lot of things. I was quite happy to find that monday is a bank holiday that meant I could work throughout the weekend on setting it up and have the studio lights for 3 whole days.  I printed out 17 coloured sheet with the form layouts and 5 sheet of the squares of letters (the proverb). It basically took me a week to do but it was worth it. I just wanted to get into the proverb as much as possible and actually put my best foot forward on this brief so it would inspire and motivate me to do the best I can for every brief. I really enjoyed the process and realised that I LOVE doing installations, it's hard work, but it's so worth it. I didn't sleep for the whole weekend and missed tuesday just because I HAD to finish it. Even with the help of my friends folding and cutting out 108 geometrical forms is not a quick and easy thing to do. It took me round 5 hours to set the set up, but the preparation took me a week and got me addicted to energy drinks that I usually don't drink at all.Now I'm doing my best to stop this habit.

At the beginning I looked at different geometric forms and on one blog I found really interesting ones, the only problem that I faced that there were no templates of these forms so I had to design them myself. 

after doing that I looked for shoe templates because I thought I will need them. It seemed that using a real shoe was actually a better idea, tho at that point I didn't think of that, so I did shoe templates as well. 

after doing the templates I printed them out in the mac sweet and did mock-ups, from doing that I found out that the difficult geometric forms do not stick together with glue so I started thinking of alternative ways to do that. I thought a double sided tape would do the trick but that meant even more work for me, I kept reminding myself - 'put your best foot forward'. So the process began and my kitchen became a studio (thank god my roommate decided to go back home for the weekend because she's really tidy and she freaks out when there is a mess in the house)

So on friday I took the studio lights out, a camera, printed all the sheets in the drop-in (I just Love James, I have no idea what graphic design students do without him)

THE STUDIO-KITCHEN WORK:

(Friday - Sunday) With the help of my friend Pieva Padagaite who's a film maker we cut all the forms out. I know it's really important to credit the people that helped you. So I will need to credit David Gaskell for the mental help and the mac that he borrowed to me, because my computer crashed (good timing)

(Sunday - Monday) When all the cutting was done the folding began and it took ages, because we had to make the fold lines before actually folding at that point I realised that I didn't realise how much work this installation will be. So I set up to do an all-nighter. 

On Monday morning after an intense all-nighter I have done 70 fold lines and my hands hurt from the scalpel. But the work was still not finished. 

I put a reminder for myself why I'm doing this, because at some points I had break-downs and wanted to cry. Throughout the whole process I really wanted to do the best that I can and enjoy the process and I have to admit it was fun and ABSOLUTELY worth the work. 

(Tuesday) I called the photography studio and asked them to re-new the lights. I also didn't go to college and feel really guilty for doing so, that was the first time I missed college but I knew I have to finish the project so I could do other projects and concentrate on other stuff. So on Monday one of my friends came round and helped me out with gluing the forms together. 

After gluing the simple forms the hard ones awaited. I had to use double sided tape and glue it to corners that had to stick together. In order to do that I had to cut them out in the right form of the shape. 

(Wednesday) In the mooring all the forms were done and the fun part started. Putting up the set and doing the pictures that than would become posters. 

AND THIS IS THE FINAL PIECE:

PLANS FOR NOW: 

#1 Do a small animation of changing colours of the installation, while I was playing around on photoshop I thought that it would be fun and look amazing. 

#2 Print posters 

EVALUATION:

I really enjoyed the brief and actually had fun with it, experimented and improvised. I put a lot of consideration and thought in to it and after a week of preparation and development and planning and not sleeping - it's worth it. I think this is the first time when I'm actually so proud of my work. From now on I proved myself that putting 100% of Your energy and working hard pays off and it's really worth 'putting Your best foot forward'. I will print this poster out and hang it on my wall as a reminder and from now on I'll try to make every brief this exiting.