Nametag

Jan 28th-Feb 4th.

Practice 1: Nametag
Design a nametag with 2 layers of metal sheet.
• Your design may be a symbol, character, initials, anything to represent you.
• Your name will be stamped on part of the nametag, which will be mounted on your locker.

• Design must include: straight and curved lines, at least one negative cutout, texture, color, and beveled edges.• The form of the backplate should accommodate the symbol’s design.• The symbol and the backplate will be joined by three kinds of rivets (regular, flush, tube).• Design must fit within the template. Include circles on sides of template, no lines should go through or too close to circles.

This project is to create a name tag for our locker in the studios. I will be basing mine around Steampunk, just because I am highly interested in the genre. I will be creating the look of Steampunk by creating cogs and adding collected items such as coins. I am also interested in the concept of time; the duration, historical and the past, present and future, so I will be adding clocks to the piece. We are expected to to add lettering using letter stamps, so I will be adding Roman numerals to the clocks.

I visited a thrift store, to collect 'bits and bobs' (as we like to call them in the UK), I found nuts, bolts, cogs, etc. I also collected coins, that I wanted to look back at and remember that it was made in Kansas.

Pinterest held good inspiration for this project- http://pinterest.com/hannamegan92/ks-steampunk/

This is the template we worked on, I used this to draw my designs on, this worked well as I knew what my limit was. 

Here are some images from my sketchbook, which are some sketches, designs, inspiration, method, final photos and my conclusion. 

The metals I used were copper and brass, plus a coin which is zinc. I used a hammer to texture the cogs, letter stamps to add the roman numerals, the tools I used were a saw, a drill, a hammer and a steel block.

The things I would change about this piece, is the amount of detail. I would improve it by adding more texture-perhaps by putting it through the rolling mill, or using a hammer again and patinating it to enhance the detail.