Final designs

Eventually I have come up with a couple of posters which celebrate my object, the Ballpoint Pen!!
I'll choose a final design in the morning and also photocopy a few pages from my journal and I will be all set for my assessment on Monday afternoon.

And the year is almost over!

With the poster project ended it's surreal to think first year is nearly done with! finished!!... mad!!

The poster designs have been completed and printed, well everyones except mine. One of my tutors has given me till Wednesday, because I had been missing for a week due to a virus. She is giving me the time to work on my ideas and design so I can print my poster on Wednesday.

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ideas for the ballpoint pen - celebrating an ordinary object

After I talked about the British Air force and American flyers having an interest in the ballpoint when it first appearedn and discussed why, I was suggested to look at the difference between the ballpoint pen and the one it took over from, the fountain pen. To see what was used back then, and what is used now. The nibs, the ink to cartridges and leaky tools to smooth flowing biro.

The ball in the biro is the most dominant change, allowing the ink to flow securely through, onto the page without smudge or smear. So as part one of the brief I began making a mould from plaster of paris of a generic ballpoint pen. Then I had decided to emphasise the ball and spray painted marbles and a bauble with silver crome spray.
The ball had also been described as a metal sponge for the ink, so I spray painted a golf ball, with the idea of the its 'pore-like' exterior giving the impression of something thet would absorb!! (this is sounding alot like my last project!!)

However, I also thought of incorporating something to do with the air force and the pen originally. And after having a chat with one of the girls in my class I think I could come up with a better way of 'celebrating the ordinary object'. Combining an old air force plane with the sillohette of the biro, having it 'soaring up'!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

the metal ball-part 1

Prep work!

 

Mindmaps and thumbnail sketches to develop ideas and a concept... Currently making a mould of the Ballpoint Bic.

The ballpoint pen

Iv'e been playing around and trying to practice some photoshop techniques that I've been thought in Tuesday morning classes.

I choose certain dates and words that I think are most important to the ballpoint pen. biro brothers, 1935, bic, 1952 and of course ballpoint.