during a persons life they will change not just physically but all personality wise and the way they live. these changes often happen slowly and subtly. and after a while you realise you may be a completley different person to who you used to be.
sometimes these change are positive, while other times negative but be cause they happen so slowly we dont notice these changes taking place.
my product was meant to make the user take a step back and refelct on their lives and think about whether these changes were good or bad, whether their lives were panning out in a positive or negative way.
the idea of the mirror was that it was a double sided mirror like when being interegated by the police where you can see through one side but the other side is a mirror.
for this to work the room that you are in must be darker then the room you looking into, therefore it would make the abiltliy to see thorugh it when picking up the mirror random which i thought was important as i didnt want them to refeclt everyday but rather every so often, so by needing the light to be right it make it harder to occur and much more random.
the idea of the mirror is that everyday you pick up the mirror (this product was aimed at women) and look in it to do your make up or just have a look at you face, except one day you look though and instead of looking at you face you look staight through and wonder why it is that you cant see yourself, maybe it is cause you arent yourself anymore, and by looking though it its like look into your life from a different and unexpected perspective.
i made the shape of the handle and the mirror very traidtional looking in the actualy shape which gave it an heirloom type of feel, because i wanted it to feel like something that has been passed down in generatinos, and so passing down that wisdom.
the oval shape of the mirror is very tradtional but i placed it so that it was one half an oval rather than a full oval making it alittle bit more straight edged and modern.
the handle i made in the typical shape that is found in most antique hand held mirror but, in antique mirrors the handle are generally solid, while i made mine more like the contours of the shape making it again look alittle more modern looking.
the reason for a white handle is that often antique handles were made of bone and had that white colour i wanted to capture that but make it out of plastic rather then bone which isnt particualrly animal friendly.
(putting up cad drawing in the morning so you can see what it was meant to look like cause model wasnt too good and the mirror was cut the wrong size)
