In our first session of Fall workshops at Artscape Youngplace and in the second week at the TP Loblaw K Club we issued a mash-up design challenge, asking the kids to come up with a kinetic sculpture that is also a sign.
After a planning phase, we gave the students a table full of materials and the ever popular glue guns and they set to building their prototypes.
Quite a few of our young designers made classic mobiles. This bedroom sign used some interesting sculptural elements.
This sculpture took inspiration from Minecraft and used a nice range of materials to point the way.
We liked the striking use of colours and the strong graphic design of this video game sign.
In this idea, the student made a table-top yard sale sculpture mounted on a flexible base with wobbling faces on either side.
And this kinetic sculpture had a windmill feature made of plastic spoons, that could either be wind-driven or could be hooked up to a motor to make it spin.
Both these designs used a full range of materials and included lots of interesting elements.
This sculpture sign was for a skateboard store. The sign was mounted on a skateboard that moved down a ramp. A fully thought out prototype!
