In Monday’s in class studio workshop our aim was to design 4 door handle concepts that lead into the apartment from the level 7 entry point at the bottom of the stairs in WE building. The designs of the handle are to be related to my artist model (Dale Frank), which I found challenging as Dale’s artwork is about the movement of paint on a canvas. I chose materials such as metal, wire, card and bamboo. I chose these materials because I wanted to experiment how I could create new shapes out of them. With the metal strips I bent them in different ways to create shapes that could resemble to the movement within Dale Franks artwork. I then used coloured wire to wrap around the handle to prevent discomfort of the metal touching the hand and also to imitate Franks colour palette that he uses in some of his works. I used bamboo to create a dripping like effect which replicates paint dripping, and used coloured wire again to imitate Franks colour palette. The fourth handle is made from card so I could easily manipulate the swirling shape, which duplicates the swirling movement of the paint in Franks art.
Renders of final door handle below:
The Colour Collective 