I have finished my final cutlery models this week which involved a lot of time on the Dremel, digging out the details in the model. Also, going back and finishing some unfinished work from both projects. Other than that, this week not much has happened, I’ve just been sanding away and panicking over printer costs for the project.

This week,we continued the cutlery project by taking our models and putting them through the matrix evaluation process which surprised me a little with which models  came out on top. Now I’m modelling the top designs in model board which, so far,is my favourite material to work with. The fact that it is harder than blue foam means it is far harder to mess up and rip holes out of it, however, it does take much longer to get finished models. I am really enjoying modelling with model board though, it will just take some time to get used to it.

I found constellation this week very interesting and useful. We spent some time talking about biomimicry and biomorphism. This is when we take inspiration from nature from aesthetics but also mechanisms of biological beings to improve our designs or come up with new designs. We were looking at places where there were crossovers and how they work.

Firstly, we got our brief to do with cutlery, I’m liking the idea of it and it is far easier to come up with new ideas compared with the previous brief as you can let the artsy ideas flow a bit more compared to the gaming project. My 30 pages of designs are going ok, taking a while to develop them though, also, realizing that my rendering skills with pens are really lacking. And it is quite frustrating seeing the standard of my rendering being much lower than the drawings themselves.

I got feedback from my design book front cover, which was that it needs to be lighter, which I agree with. I need to think about that in future about how inviting it looks to potential readers. I’m also glad about the new brief as I think that the style of cover will also work very well with the cutlery.

We started modelling with other materials, materials that are a bit more resistant which was a nice change. However, I really didn’t like modelling with the clay as t was very easy to ruin a model simply by holding it wrong.

As seen below though we did continue with using blue foam as well, which I am finding that with every model I am getting better standards of finish.

I’m currently finding constellation to be very inconsistent, sometimes I find it interesting when he starts talking about the actual architecture or genuine topics that also apply to product design, but other than that I am finding the history of it all very boring and pretty pointless in general.