The final night

The champagne has been popped, the snacks have been put out, the posters have been hung and the guests have arrived. The colab project is officially over. The project has been a big success in my opinion, the team has worked well and the proposal looks good. This is the time to kick back a…

Very first, rather basic visual

An early image as an idea of what the space could look like, it was created before the first formative assessment, it was not one of my best visuals but it has helped me to progress my sketchbook to the better images that are later on in the sketchbook with the development of the ideas…

Final conceptual model session.

Today we started to put all of our pieces of the model together, it was difficult to start with trying to find places on the models that would allow us to fix them together, we used the traditional screw method as well as bolting things together. The images above show the different joints and methods…

Schematic models.

Schematic models are the middle stage in the design process when building models, they are after initial sketch models made out of paper and are before the presentation model for the client. The schematic model is usually made out of one material and is an  overview of the design, is neat and to scale. The…

Starting to build a model

Today we started making the model in the as a group, each of us seemed to have our preferred ways of joining the materials together. I preferred to screw together the materials. I used a 4mm drill piece to put a hole in the metal, then used the hole to mark on the wood where…

Plastic, plastic and oh more plastic.

The third session with Daz involved plastic and vacuum forming, a process of moulding heated plastic around an object. Daz also talked in detail about the types of joining methods that we could use with the different materials, for example riveting is good for putting together metal to metal and to plastic however it doesn’t work…

Thinking through making

The second of the workshop sessions with Daz was working with metal which has many uses, metal in alloy mixtures are used to build various everyday objects, but metal alone is also very commonly used, for example in jewellery gold and silver are common in making rings, necklaces and even earrings. In the workshop we…

First ever session in the workshop

The first ever session in the workshop was with Daz (Darren), this session introduced us to a process called thinking through making. In the session we used machinery that we had been trained to use and we free to use in the workshop. This first session was working with plastics and the machinery that we…

Axonometric drawings

There are many different ways that and object or an interior can be shown, each can show a different view and angle of the room or object. Multiview drawings- plans, elevations etc. Paraline drawing- plan oblique etc. Perspective drawing Plan oblique when drawing in plan oblique a plan of the room can be used as…

Sketch visuals at home

The sketch visual on the left is the one that was created as a task for self directed study at home, I used an image of the wires that were on my desk and when I was picking the lines for the visual I thickened the lines and stylised them to make them more interesting….

Sketch visuals- the creation of an spacial idea from a model.

  By using printed photographs of models and using them as a basis for ideas, a designer can begin to explore the potential forms, structures and shapes by imagining interior spaces within the models. But first you have to think about the people drawn into the visuals to give a sense of scale. Stick men can look…

Who knew you could do so many things with Triangles? shapeboards

A designer can gain inspiration through exploring, thinking and experimenting- the most basic of shapes can become interesting when used in a different way, almost pushing the boundaries. Using almost anything can help develop various concepts and themes that drive the creative designs in projects. The geometric shape, the humble triangle, is used everyday in variety…