Digital scan of my sketchbook
Watch making is not an individual practice, it's something that companies share between designers. All of my research will be to do with companies who design/make watches as well as individual processes. In place of artist research is a piece about specific watches and why they are designed the way they are.
Red List Research
Mind Map:
Initial Ideas:
Research of Pad Printing Research
Research into Historical and Recent Watches
This is in place of artist research. Companies have in house designs and artists. Here is essentially artist research but in for a specific watch from a specific company.
Rosetta Stone Research:
Pad Printing Research Designs:
Further pad printing ideas:
The initial ideas above were immediately discarded. The detail required was not possible with the slip trails I had access to. Below is a refined version of the "pad printers" I will make as part of researching.
Final Design idea:
Final Design idea alterations:
More in-depth reasoning behind the design of each side:
Artist Statement:
