RD Field Tobacco Jar The Wedge O'Pie Project or The Cunningham Tobacco Jar

摘要

HANDMADE POTTERY AND CERAMIC PRODUCT DESIGN OFTEN MAKE FOR Strange bedfellows. It is not that they are mutually exclusive of each other. Potters are makers of objects. Drawn to that deep tactile and emotive force that working with clay elicits, the vocabulary of process is paramount. Everything involved with shaping clay by hand defines our thinking about the entirety of every action that we take as makers of the hand-formed object. What differentiates the making of handmade pottery from ceramic product design is not only a choice of words but the actions necessary as a design process with conceptualisation, visualization, designing and then, finally, the making of the piece. This process starts on paper. There can be volumes of handwork but computer modelling, sketching, drawing, CNC machining or hand-making of the model and other steps are those that extend our thinking about what is necessary to design a ceramic product for reproduction by slip casting, hydraulic pressing or jigger-jolly.