Raven's Brain Area: A Flower for your Button Hole

This is one of my last first year projects where the brief was very open. We had to design something that could hold flowers.

Key words that were used to help with the thinking process were: characteristics, situation, location, and orientation. This led me to thinking of having something that was hanging as most things to do with flower pots are on the ground. However it wouldn’t be until the 2/3 week of the sixth week project that I would think about weddings and making something for the situation. So I started designing a small vase that could be worn like a broach but instead of having dry/fake flowers you had real ones that could last a few days after the wedding.

I came up with the shape from twisting paper into a cone and then did the same thing to some thin plastics to which I could get a plaster mould from. I then made them out of slip in ceramics and played around with different patterns.

Now that I look back to the project I see now that I could have done so much more with it. However it is all part of the learning in the end.