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A short animated loop, created to learn the basics of 3D animation. 

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Principles of Motion

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Kei Te Pehea Koe?

Based on the 17th century ballad by Laurence Price, ‘The Famous Flower of Serving Men’ is a tale that deals with betrayal, murder, spite, revenge, love, loss and healing.  This project’s brief was simply to produce a comic, any comic, with complete freedom regarding where I might to take it. As myths and legends have always been a passion of mine, especially those of old England and the lands of the Celts, for my comic, I turned to my collection of ancient ballads. Eventually I selected this one for its completeness of tale and themes still relevant to modern audiences. As the tradition of this ballad was undoubtedly oral at first, there is no official original version and so, to recover a full storyline, I collated all the versions I could find. From there I expanded the tale so that the flow remained coherent, rewrote the script to suit a modern day audience and added characters to produce a cohesive and complete story, while still remaining as true to the original plot as possible.  My first stages included sketching characters and ideas for scenes. This quickly grew into a full scale rough draft. Much effort was put here into ensuring that the layout on the page helped to develop and add to the story, working alongside the actual frames and their contents. Following this, I sketched and drew the final comic by hand on A4 paper using pigment liners, brush and ink. This was scanned and cleaned up digitally then compiled to produce the final piece.

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The Famous Flower of Serving Men

One of the key objectives of ‘Another Man’s Treasure’ was to design a sustainable and environmentally friendly product with a focus on a circular economy. In comparison to the popular steel A-frame airers we see far too regularly, my design is aimed to utilise waste from the construction industry and reduce the amount of material going to landfill. 

Excess Garapa Decking Timber, which has earned a 100% FSC certification for sustainable forest management, salvaged from construction sites constitutes 99% of the design. This species of timber is extremely resilient, hardwearing and resistant from moisture making it the ideal material for a clothes airer. The remaining materials, stainless steel hardware and polyurethane finish were sought after not only for their aesthetic properties but for how they can contribute to the longevity and prolong the life of the clothes airer. The high-quality materials and components in a strong and durable design enable the prototype to outlast multiple steel clothes airers and inflict a much lower environmental impact and embodied energy by the end of its life cycle.  

‘Another Man’s Treasure’ is designed to see generations of use and be passed down as an heirloom, though overly engineered to be very durable and robust, if a component breaks for any reason this will not become the end of its life. Designed with circular economy in mind, the frames can be easily removed with only 2 bolts and either replaced by a supplier/ manufacturer or repaired by a local woodworker/ keen DIY enthusiast, recirculating it back into the linear design path with the smallest environmental impact possible.  The distinction in function I strive for in my design compared to traditional clothes airers isn’t concerned with how it performs while in use, but how it functions while not. Most clothes airers have been designed to be purely functional with the assumption of temporary use. In any living situation I have experienced, leaving an empty A-frame airer set up or out in plain sight becomes a visual hindrance to the space it consumes. 

The idea behind the functionality of ‘Another Man’s Treasure’ is that if you have the space, you’ll leave it set up, on exhibition, ready for the next use. If you’re limited on space or only drying a small load of laundry then fold all the arms and legs up on one side and use the other side and central frame for drying, effectively maintaining 2/3 of the hanging bars while consuming just over half the floor area. If you are very tight on space then all arms and legs can be folded up and the packed-up air drier can be put aside, but under no circumstances should you feel the necessity to keep it out of sight as it provides a beautiful addition to a room in any configuration.

Niamh West

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Kei Te Pehea Koe?

The Famous Flower of Serving Men

Another Man's Treasure

Other Projects

Kei Te Pehea Koe?

The Famous Flower of Serving Men

Another Man's Treasure