Pixelated Model

This task was interesting as I had to figure out the size of block and the material to use - which really was the biggest challenge. the brief was very particular about them all being exactly the same.

I have found throughout this studio project and becoming a poor student again, I've had to be a bit of an eco-warrior and save,salvage and recycle everything. My landlady probably thinks I'm a bit strange as she brought round a new microwave for the kitchen - as she started walking out of the house with the big cardboard box and packaging I ran after her and asked if I could keep it! Fantastic thin corrugated card - for free!

I racked my brains for ideas for this pixelated model thinking along the lines of matchsticks (too fiddly!), matchstick boxes (that's a lot of matches to buy - and I don't smoke or have a fireplace), pencils (would I be able to cut all of these to exactly the same shape and size). I narrowed it down to what I had anyway at my house - the first being tampons which would actually make great building blocks, but I thought this could be slightly embarrassing for me if I got selected to show my work in the studio! An the second and final material was just some foam packaging I got with my new laptop - wonderfully easy to cut and stack.

The end result looked pretty messy and cutting them to be the same shape and size was actually pretty hard to do. So maybe tampons would've been the preferred material of choice?!