Study Task 04 - Object Research Tasks

When researching the object I chose which was a clock; I approached the research in many different ways, looking historically, typographically, scientifically and how the object was portrayed within the world of art and design. The most interesting conceptual idea I found, was a woman who had created a clock which over 365n days, knitted a scarf, every half an hour it would knit a new line. The idea was aiming to be able to show past time, present time and future time. 

Above are drawing and designs that have been created on a Word document, using information and research I have found and producing it down into a simple form of image. The most successful designs in my opinion are the bell, showing that a clock actually has to contain a bell to be known as a clock, and other forms of telling the time are known as timepieces. The second idea was the idea of how scientists are making the second more accurate, and portrays the idea that can time ever be precise if it is something we created. The third and final best piece is the series of lines which represents the best way that a quartz clock performs at, if the bars are at a similar height. 

Above are illustrations I created after listening to a piece of music, the song I chose was Time by Pink Floyd, as I thought the sounds of the bells and the clocks ticking at the start of the song was very interesting and produce some different shapes and images. The first was using purely geometric shapes, then the second and third ideas were focusing more on the idea of a graphic music score, using a series of lines and overlays of different layers of sounds and music.

Above are excel drawings which have also been created from research about my object, the most successful idea is the series of line which shows time dilation, how we get further and further away from the most accurate time of the atomic clock and to compensate we have to add a leap second at the end of every year. The world clock excel drawing is supposed to represent how their is a watch that shows all the time around the world. It is also extremely interesting about the ideas of longitude and latitude and how each country reaches new year at a different times.

Photographs of clocks, focusing on the hand, to show the idea that all you really need to tell the time is the hands of a clock, the rest is just for decoration. Also when exploring I found some interesting types of clocks specifically an extremley intricate sundial on the side of the library which was symmetrical and reflected the time.



A short video idea which explores the concept of how time can be found all around us, even in dull everyday siturations the time is always ticking.