OUGD403 - Studio Brief 02 - Formative Crit

The main piece of feedback I gained from this formative crit session was that the idea of type being 'flimsy' reflected something hanging, such as a baby's mobile, as these generally use thin strings. Therefore, to research artists and designers who look at cutting and taking things away.
It was also suggested that I look at more 3-dimensional experimentation within my work to gain more of an informed idea of how thin materials move, fold and fall, such as a paper structure.

In response to this feedback, I searched for books and articles within the library that related to my chosen adjective or any of it's synonyms. This proved to be of not much help in forming any development of my work and ideas. Although, when looking at the word 'fragile' within art or design, ceramics was suggested. This could have been interesting to experiment with, moulding letterforms out of clay and then breaking them apart to see the effects this would have. However, I felt that the idea of breaking ceramic objects and letterforms related more to the word fragile and damaged, rather than the word flimsy, because in general clay is seen as quite a strong material if taken care of and has good structure to it. I therefore felt this would have been digressing too far away from my original intentions and original chosen adjective.