For my final pieces I’ve designed a hexagonal vase with six petal like elements with have hexagonal openwork. I’ve fixed each petal at the base of the vase and about a fifth of the way up so they fall away from the main structure. I like the form of this design and I think the open work would suit a piece of silverware. My second piece is a hexagonal bowl with similar hexagonal openwork on one side carried through from my research. I’d like to develop this piece further, perhaps incorporating my idea to sandblast the reverse of the pattern onto the other side of the bowl.

Both designs were created using the rail revolve and unroll surface commands on Rhino 6. I struggled to print the vase the correct size so I had to scale it up and create my own net. I had to modify the shape due to the measurements not being exact but I still think the final piece turned out well.

Following my research on the geometric shapes surrounding bees, I began to construct hexagonal card sculptures. I tried to incorporate the beehive design into the forms I made that were more organic and I was interested in piercing on some pf my designs. After piercing a hexagonal pattern onto some card, the cut outs I was left with were intriguing and I wanted to do something with them. I took the 3D hexagon shape I folded and created a vessel and stuck some cut out hexagons on the surface, I think the design could be effective if sandblasted, leaving a textured beehive pattern on a vessel.

My final designs for the form and facet brief are a pair of silver goblets and a silver plate with a condiment bowl inspired by the hexagonal shapes found in beehives. Each piece will have a hammered finish with a high polish and are designed to be bought as a light hearted ‘wine and dine’ set. The plate has a dip in the centre to allow the small accompanying bowl of sit supported in the middle.

I decided to focus my form and facet research on the geometric shapes surrounding bees. I’ve tried to incorporate the hexagon shape that makes up a beehive into each of my designs. I made some 3D card models and photographed the interesting shadows they made on the reverse of the paper. I also experimented with lino cutting which gave interesting silhouette like prints. I did some rough sketches of two honeycomb inspired goblets and rendered them along with a hexagonal plate.

  My designs looked much more finished after they’d been rendered and I could better visualise what they might look like in real life if I were to develop them further. I’ve been working with the hexagon shape to relate to my form and facet research where I’ve been looking at the geometric shapes surrounding bees. I’ve not quite got to grips with the lighting aspect of rendering so I’d like to improve theist make my designs look more lifelike.

I began my visual research by drawing and painting the initial ideas that came to mind when thinking of the words crystalline and geometry. I did some observational drawings of crystals and some sketches of geometrical shapes which I then played around with in terms of possible vessels that could be made form each shape.

I then began thinking of different ways I could make my own geometric shapes so I started photographing shadows produced by chicken wire. I arranged paper to mimic the shapes from the chicken wire.

Following on from the chicken wire experiments, I began looking at other ways to create my own geometric shapes and decided to try printing with bubble wrap and scrunched up tissue paper with acrylic paint. I also embossed some wire squares on paper which I thought looked like camera film. I then looked at natural made geometric shapes and liked the pattern made by honeycomb. I replicated this with as many materials as I could, my favourite result was mixing PVA with yellow drawing ink and letting it set around a patterned jar I had.