Singapore Experience Design- Final Design Sketch

This is a render of the final design for the Singapore Migrant Worker Accommodation project.

It has two stories, and is made of a wood called Glulam, which is made of the bits of wood that are normally discarded. It would be modular, this is just one unit but they could be stacked into tower blocks. It would be placed on or near to the work site but the construction company.

Singapore Experience Design- Rig Day Graphics

So next in our experience project was the Rig Building day which I covered here. But for a report on the day I created some graphics in illustrator.

This is an isometric plan of what we made on the rig building day. To get the perspective right I used the perspective grid tool on illustrator.

 

This is an orthographic projection of the 'Pod' rig with a top down view at the top, and a front on view to the right. The dotted lines represent the possible paths and locations of the door and folding shelf.

One of the other things we did on the rig day was map out the top floor and the toilet on the grass using rope and tent pegs. These are a pair of quick graphics showing the rope.

Photos of the floor plan with the actual layout(left) and the rope layout(right) highlighted

So that's all the work from the rig day and with that done we began adjusting and finalising the design.

Design Process Assignment 1- Crit (and a half applause)

So today was the deadline (sort of) and the crit(ique) of my drawing work. After the usual start with another lecture from Rob, this time on technical drawings and our next assignment (no rest for the wicked, more on that later). We had the crit. It started with us all sat in our groups in rows of chairs, facing a projection screen while people showed their work and Rob and Hua commented.

But after an hour and only 4 out of 15 groups, it was decided that after the lunch break to display all the presentation sheets on the wall and have Rob explain what he liked and disliked about each one, before going back to the seats to display the working drawings. The crit was quite critical and most had aspects that were criticised and very few were good as they were. The main criticisms were: too much photoshop, too many too large logos and not enough effort.

Fortunately mine was one of the ones which he seemed to like more, mainly due to their plain background, relatively large amount of work, limited use of photoshop and my placement of the logos. What he did say however was that, although I was one of about three people who got the logo aspect sort of right, adding to the drawings instead of distracting from them, the bars at the bottom could still be more discrete and the perspective of the HTC drawings could be improved slightly.

For the working drawings he seemed pleased with mine particularly the cheese grater and the Razor, both of which he liked the detailing of, for which he encouraged from the group a half applause, not quite as good as a full applause, but since only two others got a full applause and no one else a half applause, I felt very pleased.

So good though still improvements to be made for the final marking in April, however not as much needed as most others, so I'm really pleased with this first crit.

Perspective...

For my A2 art exam the title was exploration and discovery and I considered painting up the image below, but decided not to. The image is a combination of a photograph of earth and a quote from the astronomer Carl Sagan. The picture itself is special as it is the furthest photo of earth ever taken, taken by the last action of the Voyager 1 space probe as it left our solar system looking back towards the sun (the coloured lines are lens flare from the sun. The picture is named the Small Blue Dot, which is a quote from Sagan, the same text where the quote I have used is from. So yeah, perspective.

A Level Results and Dark Tower

First things first apologies for no posts these last few days, I have been a bit busy so sorry. Anyway that over with...

Good news! I got the grades I needed from my A levels and have been accepted at Brunel to do Product Design. I got a C in physics a B in art and an A* in DT. So I'm really pleased with them and that I'm going to Brunel, my first choice.

 

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This is a very quick experiment with extreme perspective. To be honest it is a somewhat unchallenging subject matter, the Dark Tower, but it works so oh well. More later bye.