Final Piece

Firstly, trying to photograph marks on shiny white card is really difficult. To show the work I have realised that the finished completely scored sheet isn’t greatly visible as a piece but I have put it up anyway. I have also put up the piece which only has the windows cut out I felt this worked with card attached to the back with sticky fixtures so there was a slight space between the two pieces of card.

Secondly the whole context of this project was about all the different designs the telephone box has taken. Yet because I found 2D Design very hard to learn I only managed to complete one design. Although I have managed to come to terms with 2D Design to a competent level I can use the program and card cutter unsupervised. After looking at the final pieces I would like to trying using the same skills but building the images up in layers so the final product doesn’t look so flat. I am pleased with the archival data I added, but this also would have been stronger if I had finished the series.

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Pen, Crease and Cut

On a test sheet I tried out the pen tool, crease tool and cut tool. Firstly the pen tool wasn’t fine enough to pick out the detailing on the crown and panel detail. This is the text which will appear in the top right hand corner the C applies to the configuration of the door. I chose not to use the pen on my final piece.

Testing out the crease tool I found it was too light on the paper for the piece to just be marked out on the white card. The cut tool, can be used as a scoring tool if you lower the pressure and only have it go over the drawing once, only scoring through the paper slightly.

The crown was still proving to be difficult, I had to simplify the top part of the crown and test the tool so the crown was only marked out and not start to cut and look messy like the one below.

The cut tool when used to cut the units out.

Scoring out the net of the phone box, then going over just the window panels so they were the only part cut out. I thought this looked good, and led me to think of building the image with layers so it wouldn’t look so flat. However i felt i had to master getting the pressure of the score right first before trying to build layers.

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Initial Card Cut

After resolving the initial problems, the crown image proved a challenge once it was output to card cut. The image needed to be simplified for the card cutter to replicate on such a small-scale.

It wasn’t until after I had simplified the crown and output again that I could see I had double lined an element of the crown, thus resolved the problem.

After thinking about adding text to the layout, i decided to add the type, date of production, and the number of how many still in place around the UK. I thought this would be a good link with all the different finished designs, as layout would be a constant and there would be context, with the finished pieces as separate pieces and as a series, which is how I want them to be exhibited.

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CAD Scale drawing

Although i had used 2D design to create the simple K2 model, through tracing a found image and creating a net by duplicating the image.

Drawing a scale net of the K2 telephone kiosk proved a lot more difficult. On my first attempt I found I had double lined most of my image which meant when I outputted the image the cut tool went over the image twice, resulting in lines that were only to be scored being cut.

So I tried again using layers:

Layer 1 – for measurement lines (this layer would be deleted once the drawing as complete)

Layer 2 – The drawing layer

Using different colours on the different layers would hopefully reduce confusion.

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Serial Numbers

Emailing the head of the street payphone estate again in reference to each type of telephone kiosk having a serial number.

On reply I found out –

They do not have individual serial numbers, just the type which you have already identified, k1, k2 etc. There are types A,B,C and D which are simply the configuration of the door.

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Tutorial

After thinking about this as a model I began to think of it as a flat image with all the components on the same sheet of card, reminiscent of the model kits.

On completing the K2 which I already had the measurements ready to input into the 2D design program for the card cut, I would continue this through with all the different types of telephone kiosks, as a series. Showing the difference of design and how it changes to conform to economical and social constraints.

Incorporating archival data on to the design drawing, may add narrative to the piece.

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Royal Crown

Used an image of the crown which could be traced over in 2D design. Then I could scale down the traced image to fit in to the scale drawing of the telephone kiosk.

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Model Measurements

Transferring the measurements into centimetres, a tenth of the size they were originally. (scale = 1:10)

  

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Measurements

Initial drawing when measuring the telephone kiosk at Avoncroft Museum.

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Mel Bochner

The gallery space itself becomes the art work with Mel Bochner’s Measurement Room. Applying black tape and letraset marks out the room and features using a system of measurements. The measurements serve to make the viewer aware of their surroundings, and also make them self-consciously aware that they are now the subject being framed – literally being size up. Measurements interested Bochner because, while seeming an objective and rational system of knowledge, he saw it as essential meaningless. – measurement being a means of believing the world can be reduced to a function of human understanding, – yet it is transparent and revels essentially nothingness.

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