Hello all. In this post, I will be going through my process for the Rebel/Gift live brief showcasing the step-by-step process of how my project evolved and taking you through all the practical experimentation I conducted. What is Rebel/Gift? When given the brief, I wasn’t sure what pathway to take when deciding between Rebel, Gift … Continue reading Rebel/Gift – Mission Gallery Live Brief
This essay explores the history, current state, and future of craft, emphasizing its evolution from ancient times to the present. It discusses the impact of industrialization and the contemporary focus on sustainability. The future of craft is envisioned to involve innovative and activism-oriented approaches, leading to continued relevance in society.
Hello all and welcome to this odd little project. Honestly, I know I had a lot of fun with this one but it also took place in a very chaotic time. I mean it was the middle of a pandemic and a lot of moving and changes made it sadly very foggy in my mind … Continue reading Netting – Repetition
In the summer when I was transitioning from the foundation to the BA course, I was given a task to showcase myself as a Magpie Artist which is essentially an artist who hoards whatever materials they can find concerning their craft. This involved keeping a Magpie Diary and categorising all of the materials I had … Continue reading Magpie Collections
Hi all and welcome to my experience of the first week of the Design Crafts BA course, an induction week filled with various experimentation and drawing techniques that had no connections to the beginning of my next project but had to be documented somewhere so that it is not lost to the sands of time. … Continue reading Intro to Design Craft
Once the collections project had ended, the time came for the final project of Foundation to start. So long to fortnight-long projects and hello to extended briefs. For this project, I wanted to add to "The Legacy of Steve" and recreate them as a symbolic characterisation of emotion. This process has become a favourite and … Continue reading “Tabula Rasa” – The Final Project of Foundation
When going into the second week, I was feeling more confident and expressive with myself and also the way I brought out and created my work. However, the physical element of the carousel was put into effect and subjects of change are never my strong suit but I grew to cope with it as weeks … Continue reading Intro to 3D
Samuel Mathias 