Sunday 5 August 2012

Chapter 12–Functional 3D Item Design Pages

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Chapter 12 - Sketchbook

I made a full-sized paper mock up to help me work out sizes and ideas.

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Chapter 12–Playing with Shapes

I explored some ‘standard’ shapes (cube, prism etc) in my sketchbook but they didn’t excite me.  Instead I’d decided to explore some more irregular shapes.

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Shape 1 

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Shape 3 

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Shape 4 

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Shape 5 

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Shape 6 

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Shape 7

The last one amuses me – it’s like a fat alien hand.  It was fun to just sew shapes and see what happened.

I also made a few paper shapes but this one was my favourite:

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Shape 8a

Shape 8d

I can see this shape as being some kind of bowl.  Or several of them to create a sculptural piece.