Theresa Burger » Design

Starting off my Design Process …

Theresa — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:21:28 +0000

When starting to design my collection to accompany my BTech research report, it seemed the only logical step was to do it on my family. Basically at the end of every year we put together an exhibition of our years work and display our manufactured pieces, generally students work to theme … i guess it makes things easier, some students even base their Btech on the pieces they made. It paints picture if everything is coherent and connected…so I am designing my pieces around my family tree you could say.

I am not embarking on tracing my family linage to way back when, just going as far back as to my great grandparents. I am very excited about the whole process, I sat down with both grandmothers and questioned them about their folks, gathered photos and documented dates. Its not going to be a very in depth study as I’m not a genealogy student but I have been finding that it makes great design inspiration!

Paternal Grandparents

Maternal Grandparents

My artistic aim for this collection will be one of manufacturing physical objects that represent these people that I know as my family. For me personally, its about making a tangible object that captures these people as individuals. I have started with my immediate family, which makes it easier because i personally know them quiet well, but i know that come to the great-grandparents it will be rather challenging as i never met them let alone know them. In those cases i am going to be working more from source material, like little stories my grandparents have told me about or photographs.

Old photo of my Mom

PlatAfrica Ring Design and Process

Theresa — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:59:17 +0000

Wanted to add a little background visually to my PlatAfrica ring manufacture, I only woke up a little too late into the manufacture to start taking photo’s.

The photographs are from the filing onto final polishing only. The final photographs can be found here.

Drawing - Watercolour

Manufacture - filing down the rounded edges and rims.

Manufacture

Final Polish

Drawings – Series 1

Theresa — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:12:58 +0000

Through out the last 4 years we are trained to produce industry drawings, with polycolour pencil and also watercolour.

I have a couple that I want to share to give you a taste of what I am able to do beside manufacturing jewellery.

Golf Leaf Earring Drawing detail.

Silver belt buckle drawing

Anglogold Auditions entry 2007

Bangle technical drawing.

Anglogold Audition entry 2007 - headpiece