NEW Project #4 > Cardboard Construction + RUBRIC

Project #4 objectives
Beyond the shoe...

Then this happened...

NOTE from me: 
I believe that many of you are working on Project #4 (this one) and Project #5 (Fake Nature) simultaneously.

Kudos to you, as you're doing the right thing!

You can work on any of these projects 'early' when the time affords you to do so.

Some of you may not have cardboard readily in your home.

So I have lifted the rule of only corrugated cardboard to now include ANY cardboard; cereal boxes, oatmeal containers, cake mixes, the backs of old note books, packaging, Oaktag, chipboard, neon Bristol boards.  

Should your family go out to get home supplies, you can try to scavenge out there too!

I have also lifted the SIZE minimum to the project -- so if you wish you can got smaller to 6" length longest dimension.

You need to go ahead and do what you can possibly can do.

** If you are still having difficulties you need to contact me immediately.

INFO Project #4 
DUE DATE =  FRI APR 3rd by 6 PM

Your uploads to FBsite need to include the following
i. Upload 3 works-in-progress images (see below for dates)

Followed by ii through vii, once your project has been completed: 

ii. Upload 4 images of your completed project from different perspectives 

iii. Upload 1 video not to exceed 90 seconds  of your completed work: Be playful with your construction. Place it in different environments inside and out. 

Create an interesting video of your playful actions not to exceed 1.5 minutes  

iv. Put details of your construction project in the comment area including:

Overall size > Height x length x depth in inches

v. Materials used

vi. What kind of adhesives did you use?

vii. Upload one image from your sketchbook of your inspirational source with title and artist/designer if applicable

- DUE Project #4 Talking Points from assignment completed on FBsite

- DUE Minimum of 4 in-process sketches / drawings / collages uploaded to FBsite for Project #5  

By WED APR 8

- Complete your critique points for 5 (minimum) of your colleagues' Project #4 works. 

In them, be thorough, be thoughtful, be mindful of all that we've learned. Include discussion of formal principle and design elements that are operating in the work. 

Upload to FBsite

GOALS

1. Understand the many uses of cardboard
2. Understand the many uses of lamination
3. Understand the many uses of the deconstruction of the materials and re-construction with the material into a new form
4. Understand the many uses of construction from the inside out and the membrane covering
5. Understand the strength and fragility of the material
6. Students need to show evidence in the project of the following methods:
   • Construction via lamination -> NOT NECESSARY
   • Construction via stripping corrugated apart
   • Construction via using only corrugation 
   • -> NOT NECESSARY
   • Construction via using exterior cardboard"skin"
   • Construction via joining cardboard to create a 3D form
7. Students will create an animate or inanimate object in cardboard inspired by an object from life. This may include a shoe, a tool, hardware, etc. and this is your choice.

Make sure you continue to do your evolutionary sketches of this project and up load it onto our FBsite when appropriate.

PROJECT #4 CARDBOARD CONSTRUCTION RUBRIC            

Name:

	Exceeds objectives & expectations	Meets expectations	Meets some expectations	Does not meet expectations or unable to score
Areas of Assessment	A = 10 points    A-    9 points	B+   8 points B     7 points B-   6 points	C+ 5 points C   4 points C-  3 points	D+  2 points D    1 point F     0 points
1. Technical: Meeting deadlines, timely and thoroughness at critiques etc.
2. Technical: Info & research > concept drawings + evolution of in-progress images in Virtual Sketchbooks on FBsite
3. Technical: Info Completed 4 Talking Points (below) required at critique loaded to FBsite
4. Technical: Info Critique performance of peers’ work - minimum of 5 loaded onto FBsite
5. Conceptual: Use of thumbnails, revisions, evidence of thinking through ideas via student’s Sketchbook
6. Technical: Craft Skillful use of tools, attention to details, neat and clean, etc.
7. Aesthetic: Composition: Visual Communication of the assignment translation. construction, selection of media
8. Aesthetic: Impact Personal expression - illustrates thinking through project. Evidence of development from previous work
9. Technical: The student completed all appropriate uploads on the DUE DATE for the project to the FBGroup page
COMMENTS:
GRADE:

4 TALKING POINTS to complete

At completion of the project and you have uploaded all images onto our FBsite group site, you need to also answer the following 4 talking points and upload them. 

1. Problems you ran into during in the project, beyond finding the materials, of course!
2. How did you solve those problems? 
3. Visually, how is the sculpture you’ve created visually effective and accurate to the model you have translated? 
4. What did you learn and how could you improve the project?

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PREVIOUS RULES included:

1. Your constructed object MUST measure14" on one length

2. Your constructed object MUST be made entirely from corrugated cardboard
3. Students need to show evidence of the object in their sketchbooks
4. Students need to show a minimum of 5 steps in order to get to the finished form, and will include measurements
5. Students need to show a minimum of 2 views of the object
> If its a shoe, double the size of your foot
> If its a tool, double the size of the object
6. Students need to show evidence in the project of the following methods:

• construction via lamination
• construction via stripping corrugated apart
• construction via using only corrugation
• construction via using exterior cardboard"skin"
• construction via joining cardboard to create a 3D form

7. Students need to push their creative envelopes in order to invest appropriate time into the work

Critique = MAR 27 F 


Here are some examples for inspiration...

Inspirations from art history...

 Lamination

World famous architect
Frank Gehry
Canadian - b. FEB 28, 1929 (91)

Guggenheim Bilbao Spain

Gehry created an entire folio of laminated cardboard furniture
including: 

 The Vitra Wiggle Side Chair is part of Frank Gehry's 1972 furniture series 'Easy Edges'.  In these designs he brought aesthetic quality to a banal material such as cardboard.  

The quality of these designs are for celebrated for their design aesthetic

their strength

 their comfort

 the robust quality in 

every way of the form

Easy Edges Chairs

 

Frank Gehry, Easy Edges, Cardboard Contour Chair 1982

Rocker

Frank O. Gehry, Little Beaver chair and ottoman c. 1982

S T U D E N T   W O R K

Rachel McAndrew Tea Pot

Here's a link to Rachel's work in action!

VIDEO: Let's enjoy a cup of tea

ABIGAIL WILHELM
7×7×21"
Cardboard and wood glue

5 Talking Points:
1. The biggest issue was how time consuming all the circles were. they were very difficult to cut because of how thick they were. When I ran out of the cardboard I got from the studio, I started using some thinner cardboard, which was much easier to cut but I needed twice as many as I wouldve for the thicker cardboard. Also stripping it apart was an issue. Some of the interior corrugation started to lose its shape.
2. I went to my grandfather's wood shop, where he had much better tools to cut the cardboard. It made the process a million tines easier! Also, for fixing drenched corrugation, a little time under a hairdryer did the trick!!!
3. I think it's quite accurate to the model. I wish it was a bit straighter structurally, but it slid a bit when I glued it all together so it's a little slopey.
4. I learned that cardboard is super versatile and great for creating models, whether that is the final construction like it is for this project, or if it's for a maquette for another project. It's very time consuming but an effective and cheap way to step forward in a construction

15x6x10”
Cardboard and hot glue
Talking Points:
1. A problem I ran into was definitely finding an efficient way to cut the cardboard since I could only find scissors at my moms house. It was inconvenient for sure and hurt my hands. Another problem was that it was hard to peel the cardboard to get the corrugated pieces. It often ripped.
2. I worked through them! I continued cutting and cutting! The corrugated cardboard I ended up testing different levels of wetness for the cardboard to see what would peel the best.
3. I believe it’s pretty accurate to the model! I had a lot of fun with it! I wish the base that a foot would be sitting on wasn’t as straight, but that was tough to avoid.
4. I learned that cardboard is super strong and that I’d actually love doing more lamination pieces! It creates such a cool layered look, with so much Cardboard Constructed Alligator
(Didn’t have time to make the frog and butterfly) I am so happy with how this turned out!!!!! It took me so many hours glueing the scales over the entire surface but it was so worth it!

My process: I used corrugated cardboard boxes and stacked them to create a main structure. I organized this into three main sections, the head, the body, and the tail. After I had these three sections made I glued them all together to create the long shape of the body. Then I ripped the surface of pieces of corrugated cardboard for a thin sheet to wrap around each of the three sections and make it look less boxy. After that, I used thin cardboard with no corrugation and molded square shaped scales for the back of the alligator. Then I created the legs by glueing three pieces of uncorrugated cardboard and did this four times. Then I did the same for the feet and hands. I cut out fingers and toes out of these pieces and then glued them to the base of the alligator. After that dried, I started using more of the top layer of corrugated cardboard to rip into smaller circular shapes scales and glued them all over the rest of the alligators surface, including the legs. I decided to leave the pointed tips of the toes and fingers to resemble the claws of the alligator. Finally, I used white cardboard from a tissue box to cut out triangles for the teeth and two eye shapes for the alligators eyes. I added a black pupil with another box that I had to bring the alligator to life...

Adhesives:
Aleene’s Tacky glue and Elmer’s glue

Dimensions:
25in long
10in wide (5in wide excluding legs)
3.5in tall at highest point (the head)