This week we got back to uni, I didnt really have that much work to do other than touch up the model and brace myself for the presentation. Saying that, the presentation actually went far better than I thought and got some genuinely useful feedback to apply to further projects about how to make renders look real and composition of them. I felt I presented far better than the other projects, probably because I feel like I was far prouder of this project than the others.

So, this break has been nonstop fun of trying to juggle work and uni work. It is all done though, having made a model out of MDF using tools we had at home, and having rendered everything and compiled it in record time. Overall, I’m pretty happy with it all, though I still need to learn the art of time management to avoid this happening. ALL. THE. TIME.

This was the last week before easter, meaning I need to get as much as a can done, being booklet, boards and model done. And funnily enough I didn’t get it all done because I spent so much time messing with Keyshot settings. So this is going be one fun holiday of working, and doing uni work.

We had a whopping fun lecture about how to use keyshot, I had problems because I didn’t do things in separate parts and then did googling to find that you can actually do it, and BAM it was rendered. But then we had to do twenty renders per design, meaning 60 renders.

So, this week was evaluation our ideas with a few methods like DOT, Matrix and focus groups. I happily found the top 3 were some I liked, though they would need some heavy tweaking to make them in the style of the brand. My ideas have some weird forms meaning I’ll have to use the features of their products in order to keep somewhat in style with the brands. We now had to make CAD models to put into keyshot to learn to render using that.

Started off the week with a lecture to show us how to come up with ideas and forms by using CAD, namely Solidworks. This was a fun exercise as it came up with some really interesting ideas. We would then screen shot them and draw over them to add details or change the form slightly which worked surprisingly well and helped me find some really interesting ideas.

This week was all about making a start of physical models and continuing with ideation, we also had to come up with 5 descriptive words that suite the brand, I went with Heavy, Premium, Decorative, Simple, Effiecient. This helped me focus all my ideas to something that matches my brand a little and make some ideas that were actually relevant. Overall, a very useful week in the sense of coming up with ideas and mentally focusing myself on the brand

We did a new method of ideation! we essentially took pictures of their products and cut out the parts we liked and stuck them together on drawings to find different forms and such.

Starting to finalise on 3 of our drawings to end up being our final concepts, we then had to CAD them in order to practice using KeyShot. Still not liking solidworks in the slightest as I simply find it intuitive, clunky and it simply doesn’t flow compare to the software I’m used to using.

This week was simply starting ideation, i was just doodling forms and seeing if I could change them into forms that could be appropriate for a speaker and occasionally finding a design that looks somewhat like the brand, or finding something that could have potential to look like their stuff.

This week we’ve been given a new brief! Its all about brand alignment, so, making your products fit in with a brands existing products and aesthetics. Which is why we’ve been looking at the makeup of a brand. Or what makes that brand behave/design the way hey do. Also, we had to decide on a brand we’ll be designing for. I picked Klipsch simply by scrolling through speaker brands and their style simply stood out to me as something I liked. This brief is also focused on CAD and rendering with Keyshot which I am very excited because its something I feel that I enjoy a lot and feel that I might be good at it because of past experience.