Stone Soup

In the 21st century, our design of Stone Soup consists those of the author, Marcia Brown but with a modern twist. The book, "Stone Soup" is folktale in which soldiers come back from work and are able to to get a whole town to come together to make stone soup. Mr. Housefield, my design teacher, modernized the idea of "Stone Soup", focusing on the design of the final "soup" or design. Collaboration was key when dealing with a large group of eight designers and with a large amount of supplies such as colorful paper, wire, duct tape, cotton paper plates, etc. , used to create the final piece. Having so many creative minds within the group, we found out that everyone has a different idea or taste of design that certainly came out in the final product. From gluing or taping items to a box to painting paper plates, the final design came out to simulate a piece of every designer in the group.

The picture above illustrates the final product of our "Stone Soup". What is it you ask? As a group, we decided to name our creation "Cloroful", mashing the words "colorful" and "cluster" together. One main thing to know is that not anyone in our group could decipher what the design was in terms of an animal, person, etc.; we simply focused on getting all our ideas for designs into an even bigger design. Looking back, I know that I, personally, focused on color for my part of the collaboration. Having an art background from my high school years, I knew that the human eye could not rebel against color; instead, the human eye would be hypnotized and drawn in even more.

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