Hi. I am Pallavi, a student of Visual Communication Design, from Srishti school of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India. This blog is a documentation of my Diploma Project. Please feel free to leave your comments and feedback. You can also follow me on twitter @pallavimanchi.
Refrigerator magnets:
Content:
§ Caterpillar to butterfly
§ Life of a damselfly
§ Lifecycle of a cicada
§ Spot the praying mantis/ grasshopper
§ The building of an ant colony?
§ The chat between the ants/ attack of the enemies
§ The insect friends (the ants and the aphids)
Physical structure:
§ Simple shapes that can be put together to form a story. (the pieces could lend itself to new self created ones as well: kind of like tanagram)
§ Space limited to metal surfaces ( a possibility of it becoming a social space)
Materials:
§ Wood with lacquer paint or silkscreen print
§ Could be plush with a wood and magnet base, where the plush pieces are switchable
The ants and the aphids: A short story to illustrate the magnets
Ramu the gardener was one day in his garden tending to his plants when he saw what he was very, very scared to see.
Aphids!
Aphids were insects that were always hungry and they ate a lot of the plants in his garden. All the human gardeners hated the aphids. But aphids had very close friends in Ramu’s garden.
The Ants!
The ants loved the aphids so very much and took good care of them by keeping all of the aphids’ insect enemies away. And so, in return of the favor, the aphids used to give their ant friends little dewdrops of sweet honey. The ants love the honey so much!
One day, when the ants were slowly stroking and chatting with their aphid friends, a big monstrous creature creeped upon their plant. He was a large red monster with huge black spots on his back.
The ladybird! The ladybird started looking around; hungrily waiting to find the juiciest aphid he could eat up! The ants quickly realized and started attacking the ladybird! They tried grabbing his big red and shiny shell, but it was so polished and smooth, that it was hard to catch!
Finally, after a lot of struggle, the ants managed to throw the ladybird away from their house, and they rescued their aphid friends from such grave danger! The scared little aphids, felt such a sigh of relief!
“Ah!” Said the aphids,
“you saved us from that big and scary ladybird! For this we would like to give more of our sweet drops of honey!”
The ants readily took honey from their aphid friends, and from then on, they continued to share and protect one another.
