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Project 3
Head garment design
You are task to design a head garment that can be transformed into two different forms and ways. The overall look of the head garment has to portray your personality and character. The design ideas must evolve from research done on movable, overlapping structures and mechanism taken from natural and man-made forms.
What is a headdress?
Elements taken from Surrounding
Paper folding
Sketch Model
Idea 1 - 武 wǔ
Elements :
Swords as defense weapons
Chinese ancient hat (Guanmian)
Symbol of honour and glory
Idea 2 - 懸 xuán
Elements :
Tree as the main part
Decorated with cotton, and paper crafts
Use 2 different colour to indicate different type of personalities
Idea 3 - 正 zhèng
Elements :
Balance and scale
Measure the “weight” of two different elements
Fair-minded - be rational and reasonable
Idea 2 - Chosen
I choose this idea because I can decorate the tree with more items which match the colour theme. The paper crafts like snow and heart, both symbolise different meaning. I would like to use 3 main colours in this head garments, which is blue (emotion: cool), pink (emotion: cheerful) and white (emotion: peace, neutral). I will use blue at the left part of the head garment (including the string hung on the branches, cotton, paper fan, ribbon...), and apply pink at the right part. I think this design is the best idea to portray my emotion and characteristics.
Tree : Symbolic of nurturing energy
: Like a fruit bearing tree
: Life and Hope
Fan : Swipe away unfortune
Snow : Cold, unfeeling
Heart: Enthusiastic, joyful, lovely
Butterfly: Spirituality, gracefulness
懸 xuán : suspense
Wool felt (Black Doggie): Christmas decoration
Blue - introvert
Pink - extrovert
Sometimes I am quite shy and quiet in front of the crowd but sometimes I am talkative and friendly to everyone. Some of my friends say I’m ambivert. Until now I am still trying to balance my personality traits.
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