{"id":4988,"date":"2020-03-19T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2020-03-24T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:42:45","slug":"clock-designs-go-back-in-time-to-the-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/clock-designs-go-back-in-time-to-the-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"Clock Designs Go Back in Time to the 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Year 7 students proudly revealing their colourful Kandinsky clocks<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Year 7 students recently completed a DT project to design and make clocks in acrylic plastic, inspired by the minimalist Bauhaus style from the 1920s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brief asked them to develop colourful yet balanced designs\nbased on a painting by one of the Bauhaus masters, colour theorist Wassily\nKandinsky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first step was to create technical drawings, marking out and cutting each component to size, then sawing, filing and fine finishing using various grades of wet and dry paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using hand tools rather than laser cutters, the clocks were all carefully crafted by hand with machinery such as the press drill, strip line heater and buffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closely following their technical drawings, students glued the components to the clock faces with pinpoint accuracy to ensure that each part was in exactly the right position. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design technology teacher, Mr Davenport, said: “Year 7 worked really hard on this project and we were all very pleased with the final outcomes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo Gallery: Year 7 Kandinsky Clocks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n