Week 12 - 3D Design

Tuesday October 11, 2011

Today we all presented our final designs and ideas for 3D Exhibition. We all had input and ideas to help each other with any hiccups along the way.

GROUP EXERCISE – Concept Evaluation

PART 1 – 20 mins

Each student presents their exhibition portfolio to the class

PART 2 - 10 mins Blog

Each student post feedback on all other students in your blog

Minimum of 50 words blogging on each student

Sunita - she made a sign for her whole exhibition, assembling legs for the hut, putting broom bristles on there to make it look real. She recommends a sharp knife to get a decent cut and use a metal ruler to keep everything straight. The desont recommend paddle pop sticks as she tried these and they kept splitting and would not cut well.

Rachel - Rachel still isn't set on her 3D design however it will most likely be her lamp design involving a series of globes ganged from a custom lamp frame. She has good design but finds it hard to commit to one of her ideas.

Josie - Has a few more materials this week to add to her headboard for an office reception. She is going to use laser cut technology for her lettering and transparent dividers for her circles. She has discovered the laser cutting man will be back on the 17th of October so she is stressing a little but should be ok.

Billie - Is using the laser cutting man that Josie is using so she doesnt want to rush too much towrds the end. Billie wants to make her 3D laser cutting tree out of metal and it will sit just over a metre high. She was welcoming ideas on how it will be exhibited succesfully for maximum visual effect.

PRACTICAL – Design Realisation

20 mins – Develop 3D Exhibition Designs / 5 mins Blog

2 weeks to go!

Austec Store

Reference (image above): AUSTEC WEBSITE http://www.austecnt.com.au/

The Parts Bins at Austec I will select from

Reference (image above): Austec Parts http://www.austecnt.com.au/

YouTube Clip

Sculpture by the sea Bondi beach 2010

Commentary

I chose this Video so I can gain inspiration on how 3d objects suit their environment. The way they are presented and where they are situated can have a large impact on the interpretation of the piece. It is also familiar to me as I have seen this exhibition in the flesh two years in a row. I was blown away by the quality of workmanship. The only drawback on this video is that you can't see how the general public are walking around each sculpture and they way they interact with the space around each piece.

Reflection

I need to visit the Austec Store and build my frame this week so I can finalise my custom lid. I can then go to Bunnings and either buy synthetic turf for my exhibition flooring or to use on the top of the lid as a surface that ties in well with irrigation. We as a group are roughly at the same page as each other on our 2D and 3D designs. The thing with 3D is that it takes a lot longer to execute. This is why this week i need to assemble. I dont want to be burning the midnight oil on the night before exhibition.

WEEK 12 - 2D Design

Tuesday October 11, 2011

Today we received a box of flyers to count into different bundle quantities for distribution.
My 2D Design still needs the right grass graphic for the logo. I played around with some pics off the web and the custom brushes in phoshop but they become too complex. I need to make a simple custom grass design that will be easy to print and easy on the eye.

Reference (image above): Flyers

Reference (image above): Warwick Counting.jpg

Reference (image above): Billie Josie Rach counting.jpg

GROUP EXERCISE – Presenting Your Portfolio

PART 1 – 20 mins

Each student presents their exhibition portfolio to the class

PART 2 - 10 mins Blog

Each student post feedback on all other students in your blog

Minimum of 50 words blogging on each student

Billie - Is still deciding how to mount her Tree Design and maybe make a shade effect with the cut-out shapes. She isn't sure what to mount on her tree eg her own graphic shapes, photos, designs etc. 

Josie - Has kept with the same "Concept Est Grande" logo which is great to see she has stuck with it and it is slowly evolving into something really good. I think its even better with the new colour schemes she has made the bold text really stand out.

Rachel - Her 2D CHicken designs are excellent. She just needs to commit to a way to use them in her exhibition. She can't decide between a t-shirt design, linen print or a frame. Once she commits to one method she should be fine because her chicken design speaks for itself.

Sunita - Her 2D prints just came out of our big banner printer just a few dyas ago. They came out really good. I particularly like the mosaic tile like effect on her Timor 2D statue. She also got Damien Cooper our Apple IT guru to print out a large version of her favourite image of the Hut. This was blown up 300% and the noise wasn't too bad. Good work.

PRACTICAL – Design Realisation

30 mins – Develop 2D Exhibition Designs / 10 mins Blog

2 weeks to go!

YouTube Clip

2D Fashion Exhibition UWE 2nd Years 2010

Commentary

I chose this clip to get ideas for the execution of our 2D Design Exhibition. The video shows how they display all their fashion art and photography as well as their theem "Old Diner". You can really get inspiration from seeing another 2D exhibit. This is for second year students so the quality is quite good. We are only first year so we can only do our best in our first attempts.

Reflection

Our class are still throwing around ideas with only a couple of weeks to go. We all need to pull our heads in and commit to one design. I am in the same boat and don't need any idea distraction or I may try to explore other ideas. This week is definitely the week to commit. As my final blog for 2D Design, I bid you all farewell and good luck with your 2D Designs for exhibition!

Week 11 - 3D

Tuesday October 4, 2011

 Today we shared our progress on our 3D designs from last week to this week

GROUP EXERCISE – Concept Evaluation

Giving feedback on the effectiveness of your design process and concept communication

PART 1 – 20 mins

Students present 3D exhibition designs and explain progress in the last week

The GROUP gives verbal feedback on:

1. Effectiveness of design process

2. Effectiveness of concept communication

3. Progress in the last week

PART 2 - 10 mins Blog

Each student post feedback on all other students in your blog

Warwick

I have researched the different types of artificial grass to use as a base for my Irrigation Coffee table. Josie informed me that Bunnings had fake grass sold by the metre so I went on their website and looked at the different types available. Its roughly $30/m for the base grade stuff so I might need a couple of metres. I need to go in and check it out.

Warwick Brown Week 11 - 3D

 Billie

"Progress on my 3D is much the same as my 2D design. I’ve been cleaning up my design and with the help of Mark in today lesson I made a lot of progress on getting it right before I send it to the laser cutters to be cut out of wood for my 3D design. I also need to find out what the best format to send my design to them is and Josie also filled me in that they do accept Illustrator files which helps a lot." 

Reference: Week 11 – 3D Billie Mackie

Josie

"My progress is somewhat slowing to a halt.

Lettering: My Materials are there but I wont get the MDF for the lettering until sometime this week and from there it will go to the laser cutters.Circles: Unfortunately I cant use Perspex so I’m going to use acetate and cut the circles out with a compass Blade."

Reference: Josie Trayte Week 11 – 3D 

Sunita

"My progress for the past week included experimenting and finding different materials that could work for the style of rood I want on my traditional house. Also thinking about how I want to place my half house on the wall."

Reference: Sunita Murphy Week 11 – 3D

PRACTICAL – Design Realisation

20 mins – Develop 3D Exhibition Designs / 5 mins Blog

3 weeks to go!

Bunnings Fake Grass Range 

Reference (image above): Bunnings fake grass range http://www.bunnings.com.au/products_product_tuff-turf-n-co-synthetic-grass-tile-6pk_3605.aspx

Bunnings Coolaroo Turf

Reference (image above): Bunnings play turf http://www.bunnings.com.au/products_product_coolaroo-play-synthetic-turf_3606.aspx

Youtube Clip

Commentary

I thought i would include a light hearted video clip this week. It involves TV Comedian/Presenter Andrew Hansen from the Chaser program declaring in song that he is looking for a hammer. Hopefully I wont see this when I go into Bunnings but it would be quite funny to witness this one!

Reflection

I am getting closer to assembling my final prototype. The actual frame assembly only takes 20mins or so to construct but the hard part will be attaching the lid. If I want to use valve box lids then I must space the frame accurately enough to accommodate them so they are able to slot into the top of the frame. Today's lesson saw everyone making some sort of effort towards their final pieces as the exhibition date looms overhead.

Week 11 - 2D

Tuesday October 4, 2011

Today we reported back to our group on our progress and ideas since last week.

GROUP EXERCISE – Concept Feedback

Giving feedback on the effectiveness of your design process and concept communication

PART 1 – 20 mins

Students present 2D exhibition designs and explain progress in the last week

The GROUP gives verbal feedback on:

1. Effectiveness of design process

2. Effectiveness of concept communication

3. Progress in the last week

PART 2 - 10 mins Blog

Each student post feedback on all other students in your blog

Warwick:

I lost my Ai file for my MB Logo for 2D Design but I re-created it and added a couple of different types of grass. One using typical grass modified from google images and the second one was with Josie helping me to create a custom grass brush tool in Photoshop before dropping it into my new Ai file logo. It still looks a bit busy so I may have to simplify it to a few blades of grass so it can print. 

Warwick Brown Week 11 2D

Sunita:

"In the past week I have made touch ups and modifications to my images. They have been put into appropriate format and have been handed over to Damien to print on the beast printer with semi gloss paper. Also I have researched framing companies that I can call to get quotes on having the prints applied to MDF and framed."

Reference: Sunita Murphy Week 11 2D

Josie

"My progress hasn’t moved so much as my design is final therefore all I have been doing is scrounging up materials for my 3D components and refining my logo lettering. I cant complete my logo as I want the materials I use for the 3D aspect to look the same as my 2D logo. Once I complete the 3D component then I shall finish the logo."

Reference Josie Trayte Week 11 2D

Billie

Progress on my 2D design hasn’t been that great this week. I’m still at the stage of cleaning up design for print. I want to create very smooth lines before I do anymore stencils of my design and screen print it as its starting to get a bit costly buying more printing paper each week. So after this week I should be right to start doing up some final prints.

 Reference: Billie Mackie 

Week 11 – 2D

PRACTICAL – Design Realisation

30 mins – Develop 2D Exhibition Designs / 10 mins Blog

3 weeks to go!

Homework

• Post your lecture notes, ideas & observations with the title Week 11 - 2D

• Upload your images and text for this week's PRACTICAL and GROUP WORK

MB Logo 4 with basic grass added

Reference (image above): WB MB Logo 4 Draft.jpg

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MB Logo 4 with Photoshop Custom Brush Grass

Reference (image above):WB MB Logo 5 Draft.jpg

Youtube Clip

Commentary

I wanted to look at how someone in another country would tackle the problem of designing a logo from start to finish. This is a clip from a design class in America and the Lecturer/teacher presents the brief to the class and then goes about brainstorming with shapes using pen on paper. The video drags on over a ten minute period but judging from what I have seen, we have a far more developed design process in our class at CDU.

Reflection

I lost the Illustrator file for my 2D design so I had to start again on the logo incorporating the grass, water, pipe and text. I usually save everything religiously but for some reason i must have overwritten the Ai file. It was good to see everyone's designs coming along nicely. Everyone has a basic concept that they are now tweaking to make it a success.