Tuesday, December 8, 2009
project 7: ostrich egg terrarium
I filled a glass case with hollowed out chicken eggs, feathers, grass, shredded paper, old glass slides, and sawdust. Someone ended up buying the display for $150. I thought this was the creepiest display. Also look how messy the work area was in the art room when I first started (the first picture with just the slides-- they are sitting on the worktop).
project 6: the mailbox
The corporate design team also wanted the red numbers removed off of a mailbox that was on display in "Modern Shed."
project 5: detangling paper airplanes
During the visit from the corporate design team, they instructed us to detangle the strings of the paper airplines that had twisted together. About 1/5 of the thumb tacks that were holding the paper airplanes to the ceiling were silver, while the rest were white, so it was also my job to replace those with white tacks.
project 4: hotel keys
time: 3 days
The fourth project that I worked on was installing keys with "key chains" that had the feeling of being from hotel rooms. I put a patina on the keys that we had to make them look older. I attached the keys to metal rings and the rings to the wood/burlap key chains. Originally we were going to hang all of the keys on the blue wall on the right of the picture, but this caused them to be spaced out about 2 inches apart, side to side and top to bottom. This really didn't have the impact that Anthropologie's displays had because it seemed so airy. We decided to put all of the keys be into the green found cabinet on the left, where they would feel compacted and larger than life.
The fourth project that I worked on was installing keys with "key chains" that had the feeling of being from hotel rooms. I put a patina on the keys that we had to make them look older. I attached the keys to metal rings and the rings to the wood/burlap key chains. Originally we were going to hang all of the keys on the blue wall on the right of the picture, but this caused them to be spaced out about 2 inches apart, side to side and top to bottom. This really didn't have the impact that Anthropologie's displays had because it seemed so airy. We decided to put all of the keys be into the green found cabinet on the left, where they would feel compacted and larger than life.
project 3: gourd chandelier
time: 3 hours (cleaning)
While I did not take part in the assembling of the gourds, I did have the very exciting job of cleaning the gourds thoroughly with comet. It didn't occur to me to take a picture of just these after they were done since I did not work a long time on it, but they are in the upper right hand corner of the fireplace picture. The gourds had holes drilled into them and then they were placed on the ends of dowels that were coming from a central location on a piece of wood. At first the gourds were left without any sort of a varnish, but when the corporate visual team came, it was decided that the gourds should be shiny. These were also in "Modern Shed" which sold a combination of books, blankets, clocks, plates, and other housewares that were more likely to be found in the living or family room.
While I did not take part in the assembling of the gourds, I did have the very exciting job of cleaning the gourds thoroughly with comet. It didn't occur to me to take a picture of just these after they were done since I did not work a long time on it, but they are in the upper right hand corner of the fireplace picture. The gourds had holes drilled into them and then they were placed on the ends of dowels that were coming from a central location on a piece of wood. At first the gourds were left without any sort of a varnish, but when the corporate visual team came, it was decided that the gourds should be shiny. These were also in "Modern Shed" which sold a combination of books, blankets, clocks, plates, and other housewares that were more likely to be found in the living or family room.
project 1: fireplace
time: 12 hours
I immediately got to work on the first day of my internship. My job was to stain about 200 2x4's in various wood tones for the creation of a fire place in the area of the store called "Modern Shed." The colors were done in different proportions so that the finished product would not seem patterned or repeated. After a day and a half of staining wood, my next job was to help assemble sections of the fireplace. This was done by screwing together about 6 2x4's at a time. The idea was for the front of the fireplace to be flush, but for the sides of the fireplace to be uneven. Once a section of 6 or so boards was put together, we screwed that section to another section which was attached to the wall. This got harder and harder as we climbed to the top. I really liked the fireplace that was in Anthropologie of San Francisco because their wood seemed to have a very rough texture on all of the edges-- not just where the ends had been chopped. That Anthropologie also chose to use an icey blue stain as one of their colors which I thought looked really great with the rest of the warm colors.
I immediately got to work on the first day of my internship. My job was to stain about 200 2x4's in various wood tones for the creation of a fire place in the area of the store called "Modern Shed." The colors were done in different proportions so that the finished product would not seem patterned or repeated. After a day and a half of staining wood, my next job was to help assemble sections of the fireplace. This was done by screwing together about 6 2x4's at a time. The idea was for the front of the fireplace to be flush, but for the sides of the fireplace to be uneven. Once a section of 6 or so boards was put together, we screwed that section to another section which was attached to the wall. This got harder and harder as we climbed to the top. I really liked the fireplace that was in Anthropologie of San Francisco because their wood seemed to have a very rough texture on all of the edges-- not just where the ends had been chopped. That Anthropologie also chose to use an icey blue stain as one of their colors which I thought looked really great with the rest of the warm colors.
project 2: ostriches
time: 2.5 weeks
These ostriches were created for the "Supper" section of Anthropologie. This section of the store sold primarily home goods such as plates, measuring cups, kitchenware, hand towels, aprons, kitchen gadgets, candles etc. The bulk of the form was created using chicken wire, which was then covered in paper and glue (just like in sculpture I & II for those who complain about it not being useful!). I created the plumage on the first ostrich by creating cones of paper at varying heights and by adding feathers, crumpled paper, and burlap to give extra texture. The Display Coordinator finished the head, beak, and feet. I looked at the ostriches in the San Francisco store (which is more or less the flagship store) and felt that ours matched the Anthropologie aesthetic of modern vintage much closer. Their feathers were very mechanical rectangles that had been cut with scissors in equal parallel lines to create a fringe. We used paper from vintage books and paper with brown washes whereas they seemed to have used photocopied paper. This was my favorite because it got the little kids who came into the store really excited, though some of them thought they were dinosaurs.
These ostriches were created for the "Supper" section of Anthropologie. This section of the store sold primarily home goods such as plates, measuring cups, kitchenware, hand towels, aprons, kitchen gadgets, candles etc. The bulk of the form was created using chicken wire, which was then covered in paper and glue (just like in sculpture I & II for those who complain about it not being useful!). I created the plumage on the first ostrich by creating cones of paper at varying heights and by adding feathers, crumpled paper, and burlap to give extra texture. The Display Coordinator finished the head, beak, and feet. I looked at the ostriches in the San Francisco store (which is more or less the flagship store) and felt that ours matched the Anthropologie aesthetic of modern vintage much closer. Their feathers were very mechanical rectangles that had been cut with scissors in equal parallel lines to create a fringe. We used paper from vintage books and paper with brown washes whereas they seemed to have used photocopied paper. This was my favorite because it got the little kids who came into the store really excited, though some of them thought they were dinosaurs.
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