Last week and the next week or so…

Posted: January 26th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: CAD, Degree Show, Development, Final Year, Interactive Wearables, Jewellery, RFID | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

So being successful in the Goldsmiths competition means I will be making at least one piece of jewellery from precious metal, which will be silver.

The box brooch from the previous post will be created in the very near future. Over the next few days I’ll have to make some alterations to the CAD model because I wasn’t happy with the hinge arrangement after I got the RP model model back, then I’ll get a wax 3D printed and then hopefully get the piece cast. In most cases it’s usual to get a mould made to create the wax from and allow multiple copies to be made, but because this is a one-off piece I can’t justfy (or afford) the cost of that.

Also last week I was in touch with a company which specialises in RFID technology, they’ve agreed to sponsor me by lending me the equipment I need to produce the interactive RFID concept. This is a major boost for me because without help like this It would be impossible for me to afford the technology, there will be (much) more on this later.

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Box Brooch RP model

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A bangle in Rhino

Posted: May 12th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

I’ve been designing with Rhino today and have produced this bangle, it’s made of acrylic (black and white) and silver. I’ll get around to making this in the workshop in the near future.

This image is a step forward for me because I’ve started to experiment with the settings in the Flamingo renderer plug-in so I get get closer to photo-real rendering. In this image I’ve used a texture map on the groundplane and a real cityscape for environment relections and also experimented with bounce lights to get highlights on the model. There’s also some post render Photoshop manipulation to add some stronger sky-blue.

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Silver

Posted: March 14th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | Comments Off
The narrative project, which we finished a week or so ago, led me to produce this brooch as one of set of two. The text was etched and the silver is oxidised after polishing. Once the work has been assessed I’ll post an image of the pair of brooches which contain (between them) the text of ‘that’ paragraph from the Declaration of Arbroath.

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