Milestone Projects

Voxel Model

Castle

Hollow Form

Coat Hook

Paper Cut Vessel

 Laser Cut Object Production

    After our group settled on the idea of a pencil/pen/tool roll, that looks like a giant pencil when not in use, and went off and made our own concept sketches, we came back together and chose of elements of each persons design to use. From this we ended up with a roll that is held together by the sharpened end of the pen, and the eraser, both acting as caps to keep the rolled up center in place, with an additional drawer in the eraser end.

For production we decided to divide and conquer, in which Maddy modeled our design, which I then further refined to ensure proper tolerances, and flattened it. Upon flattening the model we realized that when unrolled, the circumference of a circle/hexagon becomes quite large, and Maddy and I worked together to "Tetris" the flattened pieces onto the paper so that it would fit inside the laser cutter working area. After the vessel was cut out, it was Nick's turn, who expertly assembled the vessel, which I am grateful for, as if I had assembled it, I can grantee it would end up covered in inky fingerprints.

            

Model

Flattened and Tetris-ed

Cut and assembled product

Laser Cut Object Collab

    

Laser Cut Object Collab

    For this project I am collaborating with Maddy and Nick, whose blogs can be found at https://thespacewatermelonsplanet.blogspot.com/ and https://nickobjectdesign.blogspot.com/ respectively. We brainstormed a series of ideas for objects and vessels for them, eventually settling of a pencil(s). Other objects included: candles, jewelry, a jar of honey. However none of those ideas saw fruition. The initial concept for the vessel to contain the pencil(s) was a pencil roll that looks like a pencil, and then from there many more ideas that could be added on to this concept were generated, and feature creep began to loom. Thankfully we avoided falling into that rabbit hole, and the only addition feature that ended up being added was a secondary drawer, stemming from one of my concepts for how this "mega pencil" would open up.