Week 06 – 3D

 Tuesday August 23, 2011

Today we took our favourite 3D designs and had to adapt them to a sporting community and a fashion label. We then had to post our designs on our blogs for our class to rate out of ten in dfferent areas.

PRACTICAL – Design Perspectives

30 mins:

Based on your favourite 3D design, draft and label 2 variations in your blog

• Design 01: Design in a style that appeals to a community sports group

Baseball Club Coffee Table

Reference (image above): WB Baseball club coffee table draft

• Design 02: Design in a style that appeals to a fashion label

Fashion First Catwalk Coffee Table

Reference (image above): WB Fashion First coffee table draft

• Draft in your blog with hand drawings and notes

• Give each work a NAME and DESCRIPTION (max 50 words)

Baseball Club Coffee Table – I wanted a simulated baseball field made out of felt with a genuine baseball half submerged in the centre of the table. It is to have all the signatures from the club’s most famous winning team. I also wanted four small modified baseball bats inverted for the legs of the table.

Fashion First Catwalk Coffee Table – I wanted a glossy white Catwalk/Runway style for the lid of the table with mini chrome lights down the longer edges of the table. I wanted cat-tail style legs for the base to simulate cats

GROUP EXERCISE – Changing Perspectives

15 mins:

Using a scale of 1 – 10,

each group assigns a quantitative rating for all the designs,

based on the criteria below

1. Accuracy in addressing the brief

2. Immediate visual appeal

3. Cross generational appeal

4. Artistic depth

10 mins: Each group presents results to class

Homework

• Post your lecture notes, ideas & observations with the title “Week 06 - 3D”

• Complete your Visual Diary entries for this week

• Blog

1. Upload scans of your 2 hand made designs

2. Copy your group ratings for all designs

3. For your own designs give a qualitative rating based on the 4 criteria:

Baseball Club Coffee Table

My quantitative rating for the design,

1. Accuracy in addressing the brief  8

2. Immediate visual appeal 5

3. Cross generational appeal 7

4. Artistic depth 7

Fashion First Catwalk Coffee Table

My quantitative rating for the design,

1. Accuracy in addressing the brief 5

2. Immediate visual appeal 4

3. Cross generational appeal 4

4. Artistic depth 6

YouTube Clip

Design Perspectives #3.wmv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhecJrJfUSQ

Commentary

This clip is about Blog tips for design especially in the area of time management. It originally looked like it wasn’t that interesting but getting further into it I learnt a few things. The clip is from a seminar and the presenters recommend that for your first blog you shouldn’t stress about and blog a lot of information. Just to get something down with a few images will generally suffice. They say to keep a camera or camera phone with you to take pictures on the fly. One of the best ways to retain a thought is to write it down and save a draft that you can eventually turn into a blog post at a later date. A light hearted look at blogs and progress yet very informative

Reflection

Once again our 2D class went overtime and we had no time for 3D. I would like to give the same amount of time for both so we need to make sure we adhere to the mini timeline outlined in the class handouts. I found it challenging to design my coffee table for sporting and fashion so they became more of a tribute to their field.