Thursday 29 December 2011

Waste Not!

Although this short project was pretty ordinary for everyone else who did it, this was kinda special for me as it marked my first proper uni project that involved some form of design work. This project was the first assessment task from Industrial design studio unit IDE2113 titled - Waste Not!


The aim was to collect waste materials that one person would typically use up within a week and turn them into usable consumer products. Although the tutors didn't directly mention this, the main focus point for this project was the issue of packaging and how excessive it was of natural resources, of energy and its unsustainable contribution towards consumer culture.


Everyone in the project came up with unique and insightful design pieces - examples (from what I remember!) included a pencil case made from melted plastic bags, miniature air conditioning unit made from take-away containers, a lampshade made from glass bottles. I basically just tackled the issue of packaging hoping it would win me brownie points come assessment time :D Here's my design.


A rendition of a drink bottle design


I wanted to design a drink bottle that was different to others on the market, in the sense that it used as little plastic as possible. Since plastic was the number one target in unsustainable materials, avoiding the use of plastic became my personal challenge!


Creating a design using the newspapers, cardboard boxes and existing drink bottles collected over a week and performing crude model making methods to 'manufacture' the design, I set about designing the drink bottle the unconventional way moving away from injection blow moulding manufacturing techniques that demanded high cost for tooling in favour of cheaper alternatives.

Materials used in the design process

Ideation
Mock ups

Final Design



Monday 26 December 2011

I'm back!

After a few very eventful months of uni, I'm finally back with some time for blogging! Will hopefully start uploading stuff more frequently from now on. :)

In the meantime though enjoy this awesome snapshot from my Christmas trip to Snapper Point!

Saturday 25 June 2011

Note to self...

http://www.core77.com/blog/sketchnotes/
                                                                           


Just flicking through some sites and found this on Core77. It's an overview of a new form of visual thinking by Craighton Berman. This is a very nice way of taking notes since we humans are very visual creatures! And plus my slow note taking is rubbish so I'm definitely going to use this technique for my lectures! :D

Sunday 19 June 2011

Welcome!!

Hey everyone, I'd like to welcome you all to my new blog. This one will be different to my previous one which only showed various forms of artworks that I made, I've reserved that now for a portfolio site that I'm preparing and will instead use this blog space as a place to let loose with my creativity. I'd like to think this blog is a place where I can take the pressure off the demands of art and design and just have fun with whatever comes to mind!
So without further ado, I'll start this post off with a quote from one of many people I look up to - the legendary Tom Matano. Always inspired was his motto and his form of aspiration to all. And what a great form of motivation it is, hence why the quote is featured as my blog title.

My inspiration, a Mazda drawing I did a while back, thought I might sneak it in!