FAO CGAA Year One - Object 'Inspiration' Sheets & Brief

CGAA First Years Summer Project - Please Read Carefully

You are challenged to produce 101 concept drawings on a single A1 sheet of paper. Using the objects (see sheet) as a starting point, you are to generate concept drawings in three categories; ‘structures’, ‘life-forms’, and ‘machines’. You should work in pen or pencil, and think of your drawings as thumbnails sketches or works-in-progress; work quickly, instinctively – you’re not trying to create perfect images, you’re trying to develop, innovate and refine your ideas; think laterally and don’t rub anything out, start over or throw anything away; you need to get used to visualizing your ideas promptly and without inhibition, as effective 2d visualization skills will be fundamental to your success on this course. You might consider extended drawings - using a selected object as ‘a seed’ from which new designs grow; you might try tracing, re-sizing, repeating, rotating, inverting and fusing objects as a method to work-up new and exciting concepts; another approach might be to treat the start-point objects as silhouettes before similarly extending or hybridizing them.

When you have finished your developmental drawings, you are to pick 3 (one structure, one life-form, one machine) and develop them further into resolved designs. Your final concepts should be presented individually on A2 sheets as turnarounds; i.e., that the subjects should be depicted from the front, back and side.