Day 1 3D Design

Aims: the aim of day was to recreate objects from sketches into reality, for example  designing a new phone case, or a piece of furniture. 

The first thing we did when the class started was get a piece of A1 paper, we had to draw a number of squiggly lines on our page, the next challenge was to make those lines into object. My drawing actually ended up looking like the Orbital in the Olympic Park designed by Anish Kapoor. 

This is not in the correct order, but we also had to draw our favorite fruit, the first fruit that popped into my head was a pineapple, then we were asked to transform the fruit into a rabbit hitch, with a run, upstairs and downstairs. 

Other designs included redesigning a mobile phone, again with this food popped into my head, i drew a burger with mobile phone keys. This was actually a challenge as the mobile phones we all have are smart phones IE I phones, Blackberry's and Samsung. 

For the next drawing we had to draw the pattern on the bottom of our shoe, for this one obviously you have to take the shoe off. Luckily the design on mine was fairly decorative and actually looked like jewelry, with was handy because that was the next challenge. 

The next couple of challenges were funny to draw and to manipulate. We were told to draw one line it had to be curved in some way, then we had to transform it into a light. The thing is we have to keep the previous shape and work with it. 

Following on from this the next stage was to draw from using our house no, we could make it up if we wanted to, we had to draw the numbers as big as our hand onto an A1 page, then transform it into a bus shelter, just like the ones we use everyday. But the shelter could have added gadgets, like phone charging centres, phones, tv screens etc. 

Likewise the next drawing was really bad, we were set the challenge of drawing a rough body outline and then somehow make the body into an animal figure. For some reason my brain was saying Octopus, the drawing was really bad, just because i didn't really have a great mental picture of what one looked like in detail.

The later drawings were hard, but it really got me thinking about birds eye view and plan view etc. we were asked to  draw the inside of a shopping centre, thinking about the architecture Bluewater was an obvious inspiration for my design.