common throw aways.
Monday, 5 January 2009
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* A not-too-badly broken bench, that my friend Cathy helped me carry back to my Hoboken apartment from a nearby sidewalk. I repaired and painted it and used it for years, then I put it in the barn in NH, where my brother found it, took it home and used it on his sunporch for years. Then he put it back in the barn, where we refound it, painted it a new color and are now using it as porch furniture in Nottingham. How's that for getting a lot of use out of a broken thing someone else threw away???
* A set of four heavy, nicely made maple captain's chairs, which I took to NH, where they got a coat of oil based paint and are now terrific porch chairs - found in the trash in Clinton, NY.
* A chrome cup holder found in the Swap Shop at the Nottingham, NH dump, oops, I mean 'recycling center'.
* A matching pair of glass (!) candlestick lamps I pulled out of the metal dumpster at the Nottingham dump years ago.
* A very nice wood-framed mirror that had been painted but with minimum effort I refinished - found in a trash pile in front of a house in Clinton, NY.
* A chrome towel rack in a rubbish pile in front of a house on Williams Street in Clinton, NY.
* A set of 12 (12!) ironstone cups and saucers with gold trim, in the Nottingham, NH recycling center glass pile
* A pair of small vintage floral curtains that I sold on Ebay for $40 - found in the trash in an alley in Oxford, Ohio.
* A small antique Sarouk Persian rug, appraised to be worth $400 - found by my father in the trash in a rich Newton, Mass neighborhood.
* A pair of brand new, never been worn Birkenstok clogs - in my size! - found in the Nottingham, NH landfill back in the good ol' days when Nottingham still had an actual landfill you could scrounge around in - sigh...
* A set of four heavy, nicely made maple captain's chairs, which I took to NH, where they got a coat of oil based paint and are now terrific porch chairs - found in the trash in Clinton, NY.
* A chrome cup holder found in the Swap Shop at the Nottingham, NH dump, oops, I mean 'recycling center'.
* A matching pair of glass (!) candlestick lamps I pulled out of the metal dumpster at the Nottingham dump years ago.
* A very nice wood-framed mirror that had been painted but with minimum effort I refinished - found in a trash pile in front of a house in Clinton, NY.
* A chrome towel rack in a rubbish pile in front of a house on Williams Street in Clinton, NY.
* A set of 12 (12!) ironstone cups and saucers with gold trim, in the Nottingham, NH recycling center glass pile
* A pair of small vintage floral curtains that I sold on Ebay for $40 - found in the trash in an alley in Oxford, Ohio.
* A small antique Sarouk Persian rug, appraised to be worth $400 - found by my father in the trash in a rich Newton, Mass neighborhood.
* A pair of brand new, never been worn Birkenstok clogs - in my size! - found in the Nottingham, NH landfill back in the good ol' days when Nottingham still had an actual landfill you could scrounge around in - sigh...
disposed top ten : Bins
I have to admit: I don't get it. Why would someone throw away something as basically useful and necessary as a kitchen trash can? I found each of these in the trash within just a few houses of where I live, over the course of just a few months. Each time, I assumed that it was broken or cracked, but I went to check it out anyway, because I'm always on the lookout for trash cans in which to pile up my 'green waste' (yard clippings, tree limbs, leaves, etc., that the city turns into compost). But each of these trash cans is fine. I just kept piling them up in my garage, and yesterday I gave them a pretty perfunctory cleaning, and so here they are: 3 perfectly good trash cans. Each one is made by Sterlite, which says something about just how ubiquitous their plastic products are. So, what do you think? Why do people just throw stuff like this away?
As an extension to my research I could look at the steralising subject investigating into the area of how objects may look once cleaned and what they would sell at Ifin full working order as an profit making experiment especially within the current market.
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Jean Paul Sartre
Thinking about health, the theme of the project, we were automatically drawn to this quote by Sartre: "Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident".
It's a sentence that perfectly encapsulates many of the issues at stake: life, death, health, disease. As atheists, we cannot help but see the cruel meaninglessness of it all; a meaninglessness that can be both liberating and depressing. There's an ambiguity in the idea of a life without meaning; an ambiguity that we tried to incorporate in our poster in the form of a pink, day-glo darkness, lurking behind the surface. In short, we used the suggestion of a torn page to show the abyss that exists under the paper. After all, between us and the abyss, there is only the printed page.
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Work placement comment
Approaching an agency
Never send a generic letter or do a mass emailing - that will be quickly thrown away. Not taking the time to find out about the company you are applying to speaks volumes about how little you actually want to work for them. Jonathan Barnbrook
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Evaluation: Printing process
1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
The skills I have developed through this module have been highly significant I feel that within this module I have learnt many new and vital skills within the printing process in order to for-fill my career of becoming a graphic designer. My understanding of the printing is much stronger and I feel more confident within the understanding and knowing the range of printing is vital for future projects to become more professional and aware of the printing industry around us. With in the summer I went on some work experience in Doncaster at a printers. The printers had a design side where I worked. I had some knowledge of print but felt I needed to know and understand in depth a lot more and so the module came at the right time for me as I could broaden my understanding of both colour & printing processes.
2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?
Learning about the resources in and out of college has become a vital asset to my work and future work. To understand how the outcomes get printed was an area of mine that needed to be developed and so I feel that within my projects I will understand the limits that a project will take and to understand the clients needs within a professional industry.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
The strengths within my work have been my organisational work although this is an are that always can be improved. I feel that within this module I have become more organised within my work and timekeeping in order to make me produce higher quality work and experiment more within my work. Although I need to start this from the beginning of the project in order to ensure that the development of my project is strong in order to create a stronger outrcome.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?
My weakness I feel have been research & development. I feel that within my work I sometimes have the tendency to stick to an idea in which I should experiment and develop other ideas to get the full potential of an outcome. This makes me produce poor research although I found my questionnaire to have a good outcome I felt that there could have been more primary & secondary research which may have produced a stronger outcome or perhaps would have given me a wider range of ideas.
5. Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
Start my organisational skills at the beginning of a brief. Categorising parts of the brief that need to be forfilled.
Write a detailed time plan per week of what needs to be complete
Develop ideas further
Experiment and test with a range of ideas to ensure best & most appropriate outcome
Keep relating to target audience.
6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
(please indicate using an ‘x’)
5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor
1 2 3 4 5
Attendance 5
Punctuality 4
Motivation 4
Commitment 4
Quantity of work produced 4
Quality of work produced 3
Contribution to the group 3
The skills I have developed through this module have been highly significant I feel that within this module I have learnt many new and vital skills within the printing process in order to for-fill my career of becoming a graphic designer. My understanding of the printing is much stronger and I feel more confident within the understanding and knowing the range of printing is vital for future projects to become more professional and aware of the printing industry around us. With in the summer I went on some work experience in Doncaster at a printers. The printers had a design side where I worked. I had some knowledge of print but felt I needed to know and understand in depth a lot more and so the module came at the right time for me as I could broaden my understanding of both colour & printing processes.
2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?
Learning about the resources in and out of college has become a vital asset to my work and future work. To understand how the outcomes get printed was an area of mine that needed to be developed and so I feel that within my projects I will understand the limits that a project will take and to understand the clients needs within a professional industry.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
The strengths within my work have been my organisational work although this is an are that always can be improved. I feel that within this module I have become more organised within my work and timekeeping in order to make me produce higher quality work and experiment more within my work. Although I need to start this from the beginning of the project in order to ensure that the development of my project is strong in order to create a stronger outrcome.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?
My weakness I feel have been research & development. I feel that within my work I sometimes have the tendency to stick to an idea in which I should experiment and develop other ideas to get the full potential of an outcome. This makes me produce poor research although I found my questionnaire to have a good outcome I felt that there could have been more primary & secondary research which may have produced a stronger outcome or perhaps would have given me a wider range of ideas.
5. Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
Start my organisational skills at the beginning of a brief. Categorising parts of the brief that need to be forfilled.
Write a detailed time plan per week of what needs to be complete
Develop ideas further
Experiment and test with a range of ideas to ensure best & most appropriate outcome
Keep relating to target audience.
6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
(please indicate using an ‘x’)
5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor
1 2 3 4 5
Attendance 5
Punctuality 4
Motivation 4
Commitment 4
Quantity of work produced 4
Quality of work produced 3
Contribution to the group 3
Monday, 17 November 2008
Subtle foil stamping
During my development within the printing colour module i have developed my idea into a more luxurious end product although the product is for free. The process of foil stamping is something to try for my desired outcome
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
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