Week 12

Today we had a look at what we had all done for our 4 concepts. We all agreed that it was very challenging coming up with them. I think we just picked a hard concept to go with. But I think at this stage we need to move on with the concept and start thinking about the more detailed aspects of the project. So even if we don't completely nail the concept part but can do a good job on the technical drawings and presentation then that would be good.


After sharing our concepts amongst the team we all agreed that Brenden's 4 concepts had the most direction and had great linkage between the four products- which no one else's really had.


We spoke to Yasu about it and got some great feedback. He seemed to be quite happy with our progress and suggested instead of trying to design 4 separate products as part of a line, we focus on just two products in depth. This way we can make the designs more thought out and detailed and then just say that they are a part of a family, and more products can be bought and added to the network.

These 2 concepts are the ones we have chosen to move on with and develop further.


This week we spoke with Yasu straight away very early into the tutorial. This was very beneficial for us as we got input to work with straight away rather than waiting around. We decided that after this very valuable talk we would just work from that. In previous weeks we have been getting mixed messages from different people and so getting confused and often going off on the wrong track. So next week we will try and talk to more tutors, but this week i feel like it was a good thing for us to only speak with Yasu.


During the meeting we skyped with Bek as she was sick and unable to come to class. I think this was an effective way of catching her up to our progress. She was able to see drawings to understand what we were talking about and I think different people explaining the concept helps us understand it better. And also to realise effect ways of pitching ideas to make them look good.

We spent the time figuring out some of the "object" related issues. Such as materials and manufacturing. We're still at a very basic stage for this but at least we've started thinking about it. 

What we as a team worked out to be the steps involved in the process  We were able to as a team delegate different tasks to each member which will give us a good start on moving forward and hopefully allow us to have more progress to show for the next week.


Me: story boarding and narrative

Bek: Design brief

Georgina: Start solid working up one of the products

Brenden: Start working on the other product model, and email Yasu our plan for our working model

Once we have a solid works model done for each we can use the 3d printer to get our object model. This I think is the most effect way to do it. It is basically killing two birds with one stone, we have to do solid works models, so we may as well us these models to create our real life form model.