How would you present something where you want to convey space in a digital setting?

Typographic elements on the gloves stood out and have a lot of potential.

How will the objects be conceptualised within space – with object work it is about the documentation. The image of an object within a space becomes the work.

Is the bejewelling important for the communication? Consider whether it will drive your interpretation. A process or a craft like that can lead the meaning. Interesting connotations are possible when we blend domestic/banal objects with the bejewelling.

Finding the text will be important – consider the tone and subject of the text.

Don’t spend too long on searching though – the text could be very everyday – what happens if you use the back of a tin of soup for example? Find something suitable to you and your tone.
 The text could even become key words – it can be playful, doesn’t have to be a novella (a short novel)!

While the equipment of the common man-at-arms was often plain or the decoration kept to a minimum, it was the arms and armor of the higher levels of society—nobility, military commanders, and elite warriors—that would conspicuously be adorned with costly decoration (2008.638.1). In times when wealth equalled power, this degree of decoration was as much an expression of the wearer’s status and rank as it was indicative of the value placed on such arms and armor by the owner. However, on arms and armor for practical use, on the battlefield or for hunting, care was taken that the decoration did not impede function. Only the equipment and accoutrements for tournaments and especially for ceremonial use were sometimes so lavishly decorated that the importance of the decoration began to supercede the function of the actual object. A somewhat different variety is the symbolic decoration that was meant to empower both the object and its owner with magical and apotropaic qualities, to justify claims to power or to denote religious beliefs, education, and sophistication.

Some of the foremost artists of their time—painters, draftsmen, and goldsmiths—were actively engaged in designing arms, armor, and their decoration, or decorating the objects themselves. Cennino Cennini’s famous handbook on artistic techniques, Il libro dell’arte, written around 1400, describes how to make crests for helmets used in tournaments. Many court painters appear to have also been involved in the embellishment and painting of banners and shields. Artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Hans Burgkmair, and Hans Holbein drew elaborate designs for cannons, sword hilts (2000.27), scabbards, armor, and etched decoration of various parts of armor, while field and tournament armors were etched with designs of exquisite quality by printmakers like Daniel Hopfer (1471–1536). Since the sixteenth century, famous goldsmiths and silversmiths such as Bartolomeo Campi, Étienne Delaune, or Elisaeus Libaerts became involved in the designing and decorating—even the production—of armor, sword hilts (2010.165), and firearms (1972.223).

Decoration itself could take many forms. The simplest was the addition of separate decorative and/or symbolical elements to an otherwise strictly functional object or group of objects, for example, the crests on helmets of the European knight and Japanese samurai. More sophisticated decoration involved the mechanical alteration of an object’s shape, form, and surface, or adorning the latter in a variety of artistic techniques and styles with additional materials such as paint, semi-precious and precious metals and stones, textiles, and fur. In many cases, various materials and different artistic techniques might be combined to decorate one object or group of objects.

Tues 2nd March - Tutorial 

Fri 5th March - Self Directed Study

Finalise the direction I want to take the project, as well as start experimenting with different forms the project could take.

Mon 8th March - Self Directed Study

Tues 9th March - Interim Review

Have 2- 3 mocked up ideas for the Interim Review, so can hear feedback on which is the most successful one. Order Materials.

Week 5 - Editing & Production
Mon 15th March - Self Directed Study

Tues 16th March - Tutorial

Start making the final idea. Think about how you are photographing the idea.

Week 6 - Refinement & Presentation
Mon 22nd March - Self Directed Study

Tues 23rd March - Tutorial

finish off the final idea, as well as photograph it.

Week 7 - Review & Presentation
Mon 29th March - Review

Tues 30th March - Review