DIGITAL SCULPTURE PROJECT DESIGN SHEETS

Initial Ideas for Sculpture....

Initial ideas and developing ideas for Sculpture....

Ideas for merchandise.... 

Here are a few of my design sheets for sculpture and merchandise ideas.

RISK ASSESSMENT

Risk assessments are used to identify hazards and risks. Once these have been identified, processes are put in place to eliminate the hazards and reduce the risks where possible. If they cannot be eliminated they are minimized by the use of physical controls or, as a last resort, through systems of work and personal protective equipment

STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS

 

 

NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

Non disclosure agreements, sometimes called NDAs

are formal agreements intended to protect information considered to be proprietary or confidential. One party agrees to give a second party information about its business or products, then an NDA is signed to ensure no confidential information is shared with anyone else for a specific period of time. It is vital a designer sends a NDA to prospective clients to sign before sending any design ideas or concepts. This protects the designers work being used elsewhere and you have the right to take legal action against anyone infringing the contract terms. Here is a draft version of my own NDA, which I will send along with a contract to clients interested in my designs.

LOGO DESIGNS

Here are a couple of logos which I have designed, as I am now at the stage of approaching prospective clients with my sculpture / merchandise ideas. I have also generated a list of  prospective clients/company's for each idea, and a suitable location for the sculpture.   

Often a logo is the first impression your client will get of you or your company so it is important it is distinct, it identifies you or your company in quick visual symbolic way and communicates what your company represents well. 

CONCEPTS AND ILLUSIONS

 AFTER CHOOSING WHAT IDEAS I WOULD DEVELOP FURTHER, I DECIDED I WOULD CHANGE THE FORM AND SHAPE OF ONE OF THE DESIGNS, WHICH WAS A SCULPTURE TO REPRESENT INNOVATION AND THE FUTURE. THIS LED ME TO LOOKING AT OPTICAL ILLUSIONS FOR INSPIRATION.....

PENROSE TRIANGLE - WHAT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE CAN BE MADE POSSIBLE ??
 It is not the drawing itself that is impossible, but only your three-dimensional interpretation of it, which is constrained by how you interpret a pictorial representation into three-dimensional mental model. Given the chance to interpret a drawing or image as three-dimensional, your visual system will do so. It does not generally take a perspective drawing and reinterpret it as flat, because there is a spatial paradox.


DO YOU LOOK THROUGH THE CYLINDER 
THROUGH THE LEFT OR THE RIGHT ??

FUTURISTIC SPIRAL ILLUSION

LEGISLATION'S RELEVANT TO MY DESIGN IDEAS

 After generating a series of design ideas I presented them to a number of designers who gave me feedback on the strongest concepts and which of them I should develop further. My next step now is to develop my initial ideas and to search for prospective clients, but before I do this I am going to do further research on the legislation's that might be relevant to my own designs. This information will be beneficial to me when presenting my designs to clients. Most of the legislation's that apply to designers can be found on the intellectual property office website. Intellectual property allows designers to own the work they create, so the right protection will differ depending on the design. 
There are four different types - 
COPYRIGHT- This right protects the written, theatrical, musical and artistic works as well as film, book layouts, sound recordings and broadcasts. Copyright is an automatic right, which means you would have to apply for it.
TRADEMARK- A trademark is a sign which can distinguish your goods and services from those of your competitors it can be words, logos or  combination of both.
PATENT- Patents protect the methods and processes that make things work the intellectual property office can help you decide if it is the right protection for you. 
DESIGN- A registered design is a legal right which protects the overall visual appearance of  product or a part of a product in the country or countries you register it in.
So what legislation's might be relevant to my designs?
The ideas I will be developing further are the 3D geometric cat, the two sided head sculpture and the innovation speeding car sculpture. For the 3D cat design I could apply for the design right, trademark and copyright as this would protect any images being copied of it and also the advertising aspect. The two sided head sculpture would be the same as a patent right would not really benefit this design as it has no real function and it is mainly a sculptural piece. What the patent right might be useful for is any merchandise I decide to create for the sculptural pieces, as these might have a function and might work in certain way. The sculpture of the speeding car will benefit from all these rights as it will be placed as a symbol of innovation for a building.

If your still here ... thanks for reading!

INSPIRATION

 When generating my initial ideas  found i was having to constantly go back and look for inspiration. What i found particularly interesting was the geometric patterns and where they could be found eg. nature, diamonds, wasp nests. The two images below are created by Andy Gilmore.