Early ideas

Being very restricted with materials and resources, these pictures show my roughly made maquettes of the sort of design I want to create. I don't think the honey swirler should be made from ceramic but perhaps metal would  compliment the pot design better. I will need to speak to the other departments at the college here and hopefully something will be possible.

The  below picture is a close up of the hexagonal tiles that make up the coloured, patterned roof of the Museum of Applied Arts which is where my ceramic department is located. I like the fact that the pattern I have chosen in the hexagons reflect the honey theme but also reflect something of my current surroundings.

Budapest!

This semester I am not in Limerick but in Budapest, studying at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Things were difficult to adapt to at first here as the system and way of working is very different from home. Firstly we were not given a brief, but vague guidelines as to what type of an object I should make and after that it was really up to me. Also there is just Cliona from Limerick in my class and we have no actual college class time except a crit. on a Friday.

I decided I wanted to make a small object that would be functional and able to be given as a present. I wanted it to be generic. I accumulated a long list of possible objects I could make and finally got it down as far as a honey pot, a sugar bowl or a match striker. In the end I chose a honey pot. Unfortunately I can't seem to be able to upload pictures at the moment.
I realised how important it is to create a piece with it's purpose in mind. From a consumer point of view, an object needs to be something they can imagine themselves using and so something that immediately seems fit for it's purpose. Instead of using a typical hive shape or bee decoration, I decided to work on uing the stripe pattern and the honeycomb hexagonal pattern and to use the 3 part bee body form as the shape for the actual pot.