Reflection, PDP.

This piece has been interesting and enjoyable. The concept I believe is strong and met all the requirements of the brief. It was a fun and different concept to others and we went in a completely different direction to others. Myself and Olivia worked well together as a group, allowing one another the opportunity to add to the work, and the work was shared between the two of us.

We were asked to create a mock up design of the piece, which we did by making lots of plastic flower pots, however due to both of us having to deal with very personal matters we had to put the brief on the back burner and sadly never had enough time to finish the image. However when it came to producing our A3 board we both thought that aesthetically it looked better being all drawn images, rather than having a mix of draw and one photograph.

I like the concept and the design of this piece, unfortunately it didn't get accepted by Wrexham council and we didn't have a opportunity to do those finishing touches that the council wanted.

Bee-ing around

I was walking through the garden centre outside chester the other week and noticed this massive stand to do with Bee conservation. They had everything from locally produced honey to make your own bee hive kits. The idea was to support national honey week (1st week in May) and to raise further awareness to the plight of the bee.
This stand interested me as it had links to our plant pot idea, and I liked the ideas people were creating to encourage people to conserve our honey bees.
Perhaps something like this could be done in Wrexham as I haven't seen anything like this other than in this garden centre.

Construction.

Initial thoughts of the recycled plant pot would be plastic bottles with plants inside (which attract the bees). Further thoughts about the overall design of the pot have lead us to wonder how the pot itself will stand up and support its weight.

Further to this we have progressed to considering/using tin cans (baked bean tins) for the structure of the piece. The reasoning for using this product is, it's cheap, recycled and although it rusts in rain etc, the change it colour could become an effect, extra texture and colour etc.

The next step in the project is to create a mock-up prototype of the structure. We also need to price up the flowers and the printing costs for the piece.

Olivia and I are pretty satisfied with our idea and how the project has shaped out. I think that as a group we have worked well together, shared the work load well and supported, developed one anothers idea. The final idea is different, cheap, easy and covers the brief. I believe that adding to the conservation aspect of the brief has given our idea an edge. It is also a very important concept, and raising awareness to conservation is vital to our future. In my opinion.

Awareness of the decline in the bee population is a environmental crisis happening before our eyes, and it is everyone has a part to play in the salvation of this creature and ecosystem.