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How can I create a clock which shows recognition to a design period?

AOI Focus: Human Ingenuity –Who are the famous designers of my chosen design period? What made them famous? How can a clock reflect their designs?

Significant Concepts:

- Appreciation of aesthetics in design.

- How are designs chosen in the genre of chosen style?

- All designs have aesthetic value.

- We identify aesthetics by understanding fashion and style

Design situation:

The Red Dot Museum in Singapore is holding an exhibition of clock designs through the ages and has asked the students of AIS to design and make a clock, using recycled materials, which is based on a particular design period. They are particularly interested in pop art, Victorian and de stijl inspired designs.

Design Brief: What am I going to do to solve the situation?

I am going to design, plan and create a clock for the Red Dot Museum of Singapore. I am particularly interested in the De stijl design period. I like its use of bright vivid colours bright vivid colours and its simplicity. I will still need to research more famous pieces from the design period in order to make a clock that relates to de stijl.

Research and guiding questions:

- What materials can I use?

- What are the needs of the red dot museum?

- What aesthetic properties should I have?

- What is the function of the clock?

- Will it be safe? De Stijl mood board:

Name: De Stijl

When: 1917

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Famous art work: red and blue chair

The red and blue chair was designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld. It is considered by many to be one of the first pieces of artwork in the de stijl movement. It originally comprised of unstained beech wood and wasn’t painted until the early 1920’s. It was paitned because one of Gerrit Rietveld’s coleagues thought that it lacked colour. He built this new model out of a much finer wood and only used the primary colours of the se stijl movement. It is now in the Museum of Modern Art. In 2008 the chair was nearly burnt in a fire however it was rescued by firefighters. Investigate Clock

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Name: Victorian

When: 1882

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Famous art work: The Crossing sweeper

The Crossing Sweeper was considered ground breaking in its time because of what it represented. It represented the collision of wealth and poverty on a street in London. It was painted in 1858, in the middle of the Victorian era. It was painted by William Powell Firth, who painted many other famous Victorian inspired paintings. Investigate Clock

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Art Deco Mood Board

Name: Art deco When: 1920

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Existing clock designs

Analogue

An analog or analogue clock is a clock that tells the time using angles. It does this by having two hands move around 360 degrees in a circle at different speeds. The shorter smaller arm or ‘hand’ moves slower and indicates the hour of the day. The longer arm moves much faster and indicates how many minutes have passed in that hour. The On an analogue clock there are usually 12 numbers printed on the ‘face’ of the clock. The 12 numbers represent the 12 hours; however there are 24 hours in a day, so the cycle must occur twice for a day to be complete. The interior of a clock uses slow moving gears to rotate the hands.

Grandfather clock

A grandfather clock is very similar to an analogue clock but instead of being controlled by a series of gears, it has a pendulum that swings every second making a ‘tick’ and rotating the hands. It is the largest of any clock and is regarded as being expensive and regal. However I don’t think I will do a grandfather clock because it doesn’t relate to the de stijl design period.

Materials Plywood Plywood is a really good option to use as it comes in multiple thicknesses and is very flexible. It also doesn’t splinter and is a very cheap wood to use. It is made out of thin sheets of wood veneer. The grains are perpendicular to each other. Radiata Pine Radiata pine is really good for screws and nails. It also varnishes ell and holds paint very well. Teak Niota Acrylic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crossing_Sweeper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Powell_Frith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plywood Investigate Clock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_radiata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_and_Blue_Chair http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/mondrian.htm