Selfie Booth

We had a week project where we worked with another parter to create a selfie booth of our choice. This project was led by degree tutors who helped us each by starting off with a mind map as to different selfie booths you could have before then moving onto a target audience and what would be appropriate for our target audience.

I enjoyed this project as it was only a week long which made me very aware of my time and how much I had to do within terms of research and development with that week.
It made me a team player and although my partner and I would often have different concepts I think it made our project work better as we collaborated our ideas to make one final outcome.
It would good to have a project that was fully based on the consumer outcome as it made me more aware of how important research and questionnaires are in making a project.
Emma and I were the only group to make three photo selfies within one project which I am proud of.

I think for prototypes these were great products but of course I would make further developments for the final thing.

Fixtures and Fittings

Carrying on from last week, we had to develop  our sketches into actual products or architectural design.

I developed this for the cable tie lines into a chair




I developed the paper curved forms into an architectural pavilion.


I made a collage with left over prints of my cable ties and decided to make it into a cracked mirror with frost over the top.  I enjoyed doing this because it showed my that one mans scrap was another mans forturne.

I chose the paper based one as I felt there were so many angles I could approach it from such as turning it into a hairband/scrunchie, a door handle, jewellery, the basis of a shoe design.

I initially started off by seeing it as an architectural design for an outside space, almost as though a pavilion with different sections, entrances and exits to it. But then through development I decided against this and chose to go with a chair design.

When using CAD I found it hard to make the model on photoshop and found that my outcome did not look very realistic when placed in a normal environmental setting which is something I have found that I need to work on.
But I enjoyed the task as I found myself researching about different types of chairs such as the evolution timeline on the design museum website, to the criteria of what made a chair a chair, look at the best sorted materials which I felt for me chair would possibly be layers of bamboo.

3D software

We had a session with levi during the second week of our first product where he taught us the basics of the CAD software solid works.
I enjoyed the task and found it quite easy, possibly because it was a step by step guide but it did make me feel more comfortable with the software and that I could approach trying to use it by myself within my own project.



I found making the lego brick and being able to see the final product from different angles and enjoyable session as it allowed me to appreciate what I made as well as realise I can create so much with the right CAD software and skills.

Beginning of 3D

We started the week by having a variety of materials. From these materials we were told to to create 15 new 3D objects from any of these materials. We had to use a minimum of three different materials.




I found it quite difficult making an abstract object so even though the task was to always use three objects I ended up using one object for this one. I still enjoyed looking at the shape as it could be looked at from different angles where you could see different lines and forms within the shape formed.

When I used the polypropylene I carved lines into the sheet to bend the once flat sheet and cut lines into  the material to make an actual shape.

This was one of my favourite objects that I created using cable ties, wood and tape.
I feel as though the shape is very fluid and in some ways reminded me of flower petals.
I was very pleased with the outcome of the shape and if put into further development I would have created the pattern all the way around to create a more circular pattern. I may have possibly used black and white to create  pattern within the pattern which would have been interesting to photograph with a bright light facing the object.



I created this object using paper that I carved into, wire and rope. I love the natural forms of curve that the object created and every time you picked  up the object and placed it back down the paper would fold in different way than it did before. I think all the materials complemented one another but I would probably use brighter lighting if done again.



I only used one material  when using the cable ties as I was trying to create a grid work. Although this did not happen when we later did further developments of our work I enjoyed employing this photograph within my work. I thought that the array of colour complemented one another well

I enjoyed making this object as a lot of it was made with the use of tension to make the object hold itself up as well as the use of tape. I like the geometric look of this object and variety of materials and if developed would see this becoming some type of shelving unit. 

Our next task was to print images of the objects we had made and develop them into actual products or architectural models either by using on or multiple of the objects in one sketch.

But prior to that we had to draw first hand drawings of 5 of our 15 objects using a variety of media that ranged depending on the object.