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Your **Secondary** source of inspiration for this project is – modern kitchen appliance (for this purpose we’ll make it a kettle). When researching modern design objects, don’t head straight for the Argos catalogue! The only time a designer should use this in research is if you have been asked to design an object for a specific Argos market/customer. Look at top end design. E.g. [|Alessi] [|Design addict], [|Conran] Companies/designers such as these create such interesting objects that you can’t fail to find something that will excite and inspire you. Look at craft designers too – they often have a different take on design that you perhaps wouldn’t have thought about. E.g.[|Nick Munro], [|Kate Malone], [|Edmund de Waal]. If you are designing a kettle – look at related objects such as jugs, vessels, teapots, coffeepots, fabric – something may have and interesting spout or a sleek silhouette or a textural surface that you might find useful and inspiring. The best place to find information such as this is in design magazines. E.g. Elle Decoration, [|Wallpaper], [|World of interiors], [|Vogue] etc. These magazines can be quite expensive but if you are serious about being a designer they are an invaluable source of information and enable you to keep up to date with the current design developments and trends. Look at a few of these magazines next time you go to a good newsagent, and see which one you like best. Subscribing to a magazine can often be the cheapest option. Project 2. Design a teapot for the pottery Denby using topiary as a subject matter for both form and surface pattern.

For this project – Topiary is the Primary Source material and ‘teapots’ and ‘Denby’ are the secondary sources. We can go out on location and get some interesting pictures for our primary source and search through the internet, magazines and library for the secondary research.

When you have a good collection of material, lay them out on the table. You should start to see a definite theme emerging. If asked you should be able to justify why every picture is there and why you find it interesting. At this point, get rid of any pictures that don’t create the required mood.


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