MY BOOK

OCD PROJECT

By Lil Yates

Book Preview

The above link takes you to Blurb which is the
platform i wrote my book on. It takes you
through the whole of my project.

DEGREE SHOW SETUP...

Just a few photos from the degree show, as we're setting up!!


Also the Degree Show website:





http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/ats/degreeshows/degree08/index.html

DEGREE SHOW BOARDS

Here are my final boards that i made for the degree show.

Shiny Dice!

So i decided to spray the Checking Dice a bronze/gold colour to tie in with the stamp thimbles, and also to stand out amongst the white table at the degree show!

They look pretty good!

The degree show boards are finished and will go up soon!

Final Images!

Here are some final images of the charms and cards! Not quite finished, so theyre not perfect pictures, but they will be finished soon! Final hand in is on tuesday!

Finished Stamps!

So these are some final images of my stamps! I used the images in the final presentation yesterday!...

Charms...

I have been working on some more resin charms. This time they are the compass (again) and a small piece of a steel ruler. Look quite cool!

Ive also bought some keyrings which i liked the chains of, and cut them up so they fit the charms and make some nice keyrings!

They look quite good, still to really polish them so they look completely clear! Will be finished soon!

Only a week until the final presentations!!

Cards

So, continued from the Cad Cards post earlier on, i have since CNC'd some rosewood, with spaces to fit in the spirit level and compass...

Will sand and varnish, should look quite nice!

Rosewood Stamp!

Should have put this post in before the last postg, but i forgot!

Heres more updated pictures of the small stamp! (the rosewood one, not the kingswood one!)

Going to varnish this one as well so it will look tip top!

Ooooooh Kingswood!

So ive almost finished the smaller stamp (Made out of rosewood!). Have began to make a new small one, out of kingswood this time. A very nice wood indeed! Heres some pictures of the initial process!

I'm hopefull this will be my final stamp, tho i may make another one out of this wood, just cause!

Charms...

Heres one of my first finished charms. Decided to make the charms into keyrings because i feel theyre more gender unspecific, rather than a charm bracelet or the like.

Once smoothed and polished they look really good!...got some more setting overnight so should have some more finished ones by tomoro night!!

Hopefully!!

Smaller stamp...

So along side the Big stamp ive been making a smaller one...as through feedback from Jon (lecturer) he thought a smaller one would be better.

Its quite a lot smaller than the first, though i like the two to compare!

Should get this one finished in the next few days, so watch this space for final pictures!

Finished!

So here is my finished stamp, the first attempt!!

It has taken a while...but its finally finished!!

Have still to make a rubber stamp to attach to the bottom, but i will do that soon!

Ive coated the stamp in two layers of finishing oil, to really bring out the mahogony colouring!

Im making a smaller version this week, which should be my final piece!

I like the aesthetic of this big stamp, and it has a really smooth finish, so its quite a therapeutic object to touch.

Card CADS...

These are some very quick rhino models ive thrown together to help me better visualise the cards in 3D.

The cards are a concept i thought of when reading through research, in particular the Questionnaire results which i gathered at the beginning of the project. One female in particular was having to arrange everything in a symmetrical way, obsessively.

OCD Survival!

So ive also been working on another product - to go alongside my main stamp.

The idea behind this one is a "swiss arm knife" for Symmetry OCD sufferers...but not in the physical form of a swiss army knife....really a survival object for OCD sufferers!

(See survival kit post further down the page!)

Some ideas for this were; a charm bracelet with different charms for each type of Symmetry OCD related object...i.e. spirit level for checking levels, compass for north facing objects, a ruler for measuring distance between object and a small mirror to replica mirror images, so that objects can be propertly lined up.


The 'charms' would enable the OCD to be embraced or positively projected. To help 'celebrate' the OCD instead of hide it.

I tried setting some of these objects in resin to see if i could make them look like charms...

Spirit Level...worked!

Compass...didnt really work!

Another idea was a credit card idea, with a different object in a different card: see image below...




And below is just a wee collage of images i made to represent OCD being embraced in everyday life...A lipstick, eyeshadow set, button and bangle! Not an idea i will take any further, but makes for a nice image!

Model Making #2

More model making...