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Lottie Smith

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, U.K.
Magnificent maker4 brought to life2 working on

Website:www.lottiesmith.com

Twitter:@lottie_smith

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Job role:Designer

Skills:Got a degree in drawing pictures and a life time of cutting and sticking. I work largely (or smallely) with cardboard and paper.

Objects and inventions that have and tell story.

Recent blog entries

Getting the base shape made and starting the wings
Posted about Enem's Light bird

I started with making a stable weighted base as I knew I wanted to make the Light Bird tall but especially with cardboard this can lead to a lot of wobble!
I made the base so it looks like a section of pavement by the edge of a road to show where these Light Birds would actually be placed.

I then started on working out the wings and how to model them both up in position and  folded down, we’d discussed the usefulness of them being able to this in stormy weather to make them safer. This would also give the option for maintenance of any features that sit on the wings themselves by bring them closer to ground level for the humans fixing them!

Pre meeting sketches
Posted about Enem's Light bird

I drew some ideas of how I’m going to approach Erem’s design before our scheduled meeting so I could talk her through my approach and make sure I had things right. In her invention drawing I was intrigued by the fainter curved lines that I felt represented the birds wings and had an idea as to how to incorporate these into her design and make them work in reality. I showed her these along with some basic beginnings of shape and texture to check I was going in the right direction before I got started!

Moving Turbine
Posted about Rosie's Floral Turbine

Just a little stopmotion clip of the Floral Turbine in action