Finished poster

After using photoshop I edited the image and incorporated the extra text using what was available on photoshop. I used a "cutting" theme to give the texture a more plastic blurred effect.
Here is the finished poster.

FINAL 3D SCULPTURE.

After lots of debate about what the final shape would be, I decided instead of making lots of little shells and glueing them together, I wanted a less obvious theme of repeat in my design. I used all together 12 sheets of yellow card and used the folding technique seen through out my blog and sketch book to create the final design. 


This has a repetitive theme and shell influenced texture to it so seemed perfect for my ideas.


I used the stapler to fix them all into shape and here is final 3D object...

To show the repetitive theme at its most obvious I took a photograph of the 3d piece from the inside.

I think the above image could have looked really effective to use as my final piece for the folder, however after lots of query i wouldnt have been able to use it anyway as a different object had to be used in the poster.

Gf Smith Paper

Here I just quickly looked at the actual logo of the company.

Poster Design

For my poster design ideas, you need to look in my sketch book as a lot of sketches were involved with my development process, such as layout and text. However the final design the poster was based on is shown in the image below.

I regret to say I didnt screen print the process of getting from here to my final design. As mentioned before my ideas for the poster design are shown through my sketch book work as I found I experiemented all my ideas of design through pen and paper, then simply created the design straight away on the computer and was able to this immediately as I had already planned what my final poster would be.

More shell sculptures...

I wanted a more complicated shell sculpture that maybe involved several shapes I had used before. Here is an example...

For the above sculpture I used the folded paper technique then made some shell forms out of paper sculptures that were seen in my previous blog post.

I incorporated many shapes to try and resemble a shell shape, however it didnt follow the theme repeat so i didnt feel it was good enough for a final design.

For the shape below I just simply cut slits into a sheet of paper, again just experimenting trying to grasp a simple shape that I could maybe repeat several times to use as a final piece.

Paper Experimentation.

Based on the photos I took of the shells I began making simple shapes out of paper. Here are a few of the shells I made based on my own knowledge on paper manipulation; they do not focus entirely on the techniques Richard Sweeney showed us.

I tried to create this sculpture without using much adhesive or any staples at all if possible just by twisting the paper, an interesting texture was created but I prefer a final piece to be less crumpled, it has a nicer finish if the paper is still smooth and clean cut.

Here the central swirling form is very recognisable as a shell shape.

For the shell below I did use Richard Sweeneys techniques of slicing the paper and folding it to create 3d form. I then scored the paper at the front to create a bend in the shape of a shell.

Here is a zoomed image of the scored fold.

For this sculpture I cut the paper into tabs again, but this time used glue to stick each tab together, for me this is the most recognisable sculpture relating to a shell form, because of its hollow centre and bend of direction.

The paper also casts a shadow creating an interesting texture similar to that of a shell.

The same sculpture just a different angle photograph.

I made this sculpture using a similar method to the one above I just changed the tab sizes.

Here is a simple swirling shell form that could easily be repeated to make up a larger sculpture. It would look interesting on a really small scale and made out of card. I could try to use this simple shape several times to create a larger different shell form. Then it would follow the theme of repeat.

3 sheets of paper were used to create this sculpture, each layer just stapled slightly looser than the sheet beneath it.