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28 - Cardboard sphere

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Making a prototype, sketch model, or maquette is often a useful step in identifying at an early stage some of the practical issues that lie ahead.

52 - Red metal box

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Much good quality material can be sourced from items already made, used and then discarded.

11 - Hardwood sphere

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Assorted, reclaimed hardwoods including mahogany, beech, ash, oak and ebony are glued randomly together and then turned on the lathe. See video.

54 - Cast aluminium sphere

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Creating an object in separate components to be combined later can often help to overcome technical or production problems, see paper sphere,

02 - Coloured acrylic cube

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The coloured acrylic of this piece consists of those scrap pieces found around the machines in the workshop that have been used to shape the components of student work, over a period of approximate

24 - Egg box sphere

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Egg boxes have long been made form re-cycled material and here they are re-cycled again, using two of the many colours available.

Taking Care of Business: Sustainable Engagement with OCW and OER

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Taking Care of Business: Sustainable Engagement with OCW and OER

38 - Ordnance survey globe

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Simple paste, water and paper, or papier-mache. In this case an old second hand ordnance survey map of Southend on Sea, bought for 99p.

47 - Aluminium foil cube

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Made from a used, disposable catering aluminium plate, part formed by hand, part by soft hammer and wooden block, the foil forms a box with satisfying rigidity, with a combination of sharply produc

Inside Outside. Sustainable Printmaking Project.

This sustainable printmaking project