Friday 12th December

Following my tutorial yesterday I have taken the opportunity today to go through my learning agreement and change it, only slightly, but enough so it fits with yesterdays blof post of how I have decided to change my course working.

Norwich University of the Arts

Learning Agreement

Course and Unit Number: Textiles Ba8

Name: Nathan Mison

Proposal:  What do you intend to do?

Self Planning…

This course of work, intended for the Ba8 hand in, is based upon a progression of ideas following on from Ba7. Although there were major flaws in planning and preparation in Ba7 which ultimately lead to it not being so successful, the technique worked for me and it is something I would definitely like to develop further. In this course of work better planning will lead to a more thorough and rigorous exploration of technique and possible uses for it in the interior market.

However, as this is the last project of the textile course, I believe we need to produce a really special body of work. I want to put everything I have learnt over the last two and half years together to create a collection of work I am proud of. As i hope to use my more concise planning skills, I see my work consisting of lots of different ideas and routes which are their own individual ideas, but all link together and inform each other.

From a reflection of Ba7,I think to move my work forwards, I want to now take in one step further, to the next level. I need to be able to produce a larger amount or work in a short amount of time. exploring technique further and in more depth alongside and exploration into further visual imagery will push my work into new boundaries.

There will be two parts to the project which will connect an interlink to form one informed, in-depth project which is well thought and well planned…

1. A continued experimentation of knotted technique. This will include smaller samples based on a range of knotted techniques, experimenting with materials. Unlike in Ba7, this will be a smaller part of the project, displayed in a display wallet, more as a technical file as ideas to use in the other two sections. This will include a smaller experimentation into the more structural side, briefly explored towards the end of Ba7. However, also experimenting with scale, creating larger pieces to see what the larger properties of these pieces are and the possible uses on them in the interiors. I see the work being the interiors rather than decorating it!
2. Alongside this experimentation I will complete a visual exploration based upon the sea and the fishing industry. I will explore this through drawing and sampling based on imagery and colour with a focus on texture, with the intention of creating designs which i aim to collaborate with the knotting to take the project one step further.

Individual designs will be completed in each of the sections, but they will all interconnect and inform each other in order to create one succinct, connected project set of final designs which compliment each other and work as stand alone designs.

I also began completing and writing up some research from the designers I found yesterday on the internet. I have printed out and annotated the website print outs, to be displayed in my design inspiration file, and images/links are available through my pinterest page for this section of the project (http://www.pinterest.com/nathanmison9/ba8-design-inspiration/) . I am enjoying sorting out this work and getting all organised. so I do not repeat myself over and over, I aim to give a little information about the designer and their work and then, why I find it interesting and any possible ideas I could bring into my work.

Cristina Perreno & MIT
I came across an article about a collaboration between Cristina Parreno & MIT for the ARCO Madrid fair in Spain. This is an amazing collaboration which took over the VIP area at this event and consists of a large almost sculptural form of lighting. The two designers have used cardboard which is shaped and hung on a wire mesh creating a flowing form of mood lighting.

I think this is an amazing project, I love the way that the idea of the lighting has been completely taken to the next level, turning into a sculpture itself. This relates to my own work, and gets me thinking about the kind of craziness of my own work. This work is going to be more experimental, but I think I should let the work lead the idea for context, focusing more on having fun and thinking outside the box. I do not want to create something that has already mean done!