Woodwork

There's two ways of making the installation out of wood, first being to cut out the front and back forms, adding the side sections after, the second is to cut out multiple copies of the letterforms to glue back to back creating depth. The second would be easiest, though not necessarily cheapest, so Adam went down to wwodwork today to ask prices and materials.

It seems MDF would be our cheapest option, best for cutting and best for painting onto. It costs £16 per 6"x4" (2440mm x 1220mm) sheet at 18mm thick. Our estimates for letter sizes would be approx 600mm x 560mm If we were to do the word "inter disciplinery" thats 17 letters, requiring 2 sheets. 2 sheets is £32 and we would require between 4 to 5 for each board to achieve the required depth. So we would need either 8 or 10 boards priced at £128 (8) or £160 (10)

We've worked out that with glue, brushes, paint etc this would all cost around £200, which we found out wouldn't come out of our print budget. Fortunately the Inter Dis. team are already doing fundrasiers for it so that shouldn't be too much of a problem.