Pretty much all set for the big smoke. 

Tying up all the loose ends then all we’ve got left to do is get on the plane and go! 

Now that I have a free minute…

The Degree Show: great wee night, nice vibe in the room, we definitely had the party atmosphere! Was great to see all the other students’ work as well. Got some mixed feed back on the night, for every supporter there’s always a doubter.
One random girl though, made all these months of work, completely worth while.

When one door closes another one opens.

Now we’re all packed up, and ready to take this show on the road; next stop LONDON! 

 

Out of my hands now.

Heads all over the place, forgot to stick these photos up. Figuring out how/where to cut to create the intersection.

While most people are signing up for Vera Wang Wedgwood china at Michael C. Fina and Le Creuset at Williams-Sonoma, Moss aesthetes are checking off pink plastic Air Chairs and Until Dawn curtains by Tord Boontje on their wish lists. “Two of our architect friends had registered there,” says Katherine Kim, the founder of Unit Design, an architecture and graphic design company. Her husband, Matthew Bannister, creative director of dbox, an advertising firm, adds, “And we would all enjoy spending an afternoon browsing in there.”

Henry Urbach, a gallery owner, didn’t even consider other stores when he married Stephen Hartman, his partner of 20 years, in November 2003. “Moss is a kind of watering hole for people interested in design,” Urbach says. (At Moss, couples are listed as first partner and second partner; 20 percent of the registrants are same-sex couples.)
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I was reading this earlier.. touched on a few points i’ve observed lately in the shop I work in (John Lewis). There are heaps of couples who have wedding lists in there and there are the box standard china, cutlery bedding etc etc sets that come up again and again - but as of late, with the help of a best of british design celebration going on across all stores, there has, i’ve noticed, been a lot more contemporary design pieces finding their way into the wedding gift lists. (The John Lewis house porcelain is the brain child of Robin Levien!)  

So with a varied range of Alessi pieces now in store (as well as a small collection of Nick Munro pieces building up nicely) they have quickly become incredibly popular gifts for occasional celebrations. Just sayin’  

Not finding much time to blog at the minute. doing 9-5’s in the workshop then illustrator presentation creation and video editing at nights. 

But this is what happened today. Got the insert plate connected to the box and hand grip placed. The insert is now ready for the word tiles. 

Managed to hand - because i’m such a glutton for punishment -  sand down the 3 component parts and get 2 of them primed. 

Turned the delrin stand for the hand pump but it was ever so slightly too small for the rubber tube to flex over the connecter. Will have to start that from scratch first thing monday morning. 

The last thing to do is get the screen cut, which is worrying me. The shape isn’t right and it’s my own mathematical fault and i’m too far gone to do anything radical about it. This could potentially be my downfall, so frustrated with myself about it but hey ho it’ll all come together in the end though! Always does!

Things I still have to decide on: the final placement of the box - should it be parallell to the side of the base uni of at an angle. At an angle allows for a more natural stance when viewing the screen, but to me it looks really odd. I’ll have to sleep on it  guess. Need to make that decision pretty quickly though to map out where to drill all the holes on the base.

The false inside is also annoying me, it works perfectly (thank God), but you can see the inside of it as it goes down… Think i’m going to have to go back and reconsider the fabric cover…   really not happy with how is it right now. The fabric did add a bit of a cloak and dagger element to it which i liked. It might work out alright, but it’s not staying the way it is thats for sure. 

 

Today’s antics. Coming together … but very slowly. Panic sets in. All the components of the piece are complete (modelled by my unglamorous assistant @hughflorence) except for the housing for the screen. That’ll have to wait til the morning. 
Turning a bit of delrin to make a stand for the hand pump.