Design // Fall 2014 - Surface Project

Welcome to the second project assignment of Fall 2014! As the quarter draw near to the end, I will continue to put on new post of the assignments that I've been done and currently undergoing. So please bear with me and you will get to see glimpses of the life of Industrial Design student! 

Here's the objection of Surface Assignment below -

For the second assignment, you will learn to control surfaces.  The product you are designing is a wooden phone stand.  You will be given a limited amount of material with which to build, so planning is essential.  There is also a small amount of engineering involved.

For the first part of the assignment, read this article by 10/13:

http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/a_periodic_table_of_form_the_secret_language_of_surface_and_meaning_in_product_design_by_gray_holland_12752.asp (Links to an external site.)

Design requirements:

- Your design must support a phone (can be your own, or someone else's), in landscape and/or portrait orientation.  The phone can be vertical, angled, or horizontal.  It can be either in a case or not.

- Your design cannot interfere with the function of the phone in its supported state, i.e. can't block the jacks, display, keys, or speakers you need to access.

- Your design must be made almost exclusively of the material furnished.*  You do not need to use all the material, but you should not use more than your allowance.

- Your design must support charging of the phone.  There should be either an embedded charging jack or a way for a non-embedded charging jack and cable work with the design.  Plan on purchasing at least one extra charging cable (USB-type is fine).  I suggest pooling your phone types and doing a group buy on Amazon, where cables are cheap.

- Your design must use surfacing techniques (as in the article linked above and further discussed in class) to create a hierarchy of surface relationships.  All edge and surface relationships should be considered and fully resolved.

- Your design should be appropriate for the material used and should demonstrate a reasonably high level of craftsmanship.

* fasteners, hardware, wiring, etc. does not count as material.

PROCESS / MAKING

FINAL / FINISH

*Note - Type of wood material that I used to make out of was Walnut and I also used Teak oil to stain to give it color.

Design // Fall 2014 - Proportion Project

Welcome to the first project assignment of Fall 2014! As the quarter draw near to the end, I will continue to put on new post of the assignments that I've been done and currently undergoing. So please bear with me and you will get to see glimpses of the life of Industrial Design student! 


Here's the Proportion objection outline below -

Rules:
Using two pieces of 12x12" 3/4" thick MDF, create a composed object that visually expresses WEIGHT and LIGHTNESS.

- You are manipulating proportion only.  Do not spend a lot of time carving, sculpting, or otherwise manipulating the surfaces.

- Since you might make some mistakes, you may use as many pieces of MDF as you need, but your finished pieces should comprise roughly the equivalent of 1 piece each.  You can weigh an uncut piece to give you a sense of how much material your finished piece should use.  Remember, you are using 1 piece for the WEIGHT object, and 1 piece for the LIGHTNESS object - a total of 2 pieces (or the equivalent of 2 pieces).

- The exercise is to represent the visual expression of these two attributes, not to literally make something heavy or light.  Since you are using the same amount of material in both cases, this will be impossible (your pieces will actually weigh the same).  The objective is to see how you can communicate these attributes using proportion composition only.

- Your object does not need to be a functional product.  We are focusing on visual composition, not on utility.

- Your two finished pieces do not need to be an intentionally matched pair, although since they have opposite attributes, they should naturally oppose each other.

MOOD BOARD / INSPIRATION

LIGHTNESS PROCESS

WEIGHT PROCESS

FINAL / FINISH

ARCH // Winter 2013 Review (Part One)

These pictures that you are about to see are from my works that I've done for my class from the Winter 2013 (ARCH 210 - Design Drawing).   As always, please leave some comments and questions if any!

My Styrofoam Model to study & draw from.

                                         

Various drawings to explore the negative space between the two compositions

 

Final Version of the Negative Space Drawing - Edited by using Illustrator and Photoshop

Design // Winter 2014 Review (Part One)

Design Drawing - Excerises

Hi everyone!

I hope you guys had a nice Christmas/Holidays! I didn't get to enjoy the holiday break much since I had to pack up stuffs with my girlfriend and moved to the new place during the holiday week (Even on Christmas! Brutal.) before the Winter quarter start at UW.

Let me tell you something -  if you are/going to move to the new apartment, hire the movers. They saved our butts and made our lives sooo much easier. In all of our previous moves, it was extremely stressful. The packing, the carrying, renting trucks, trying to find a spot to park the trucks, cancelling all your electrical/phone/gas/internet services, cleaning the old place, cleaning the new place, paying for the new place, redirecting all your mail, the unpacking. My girlfriend and I were at each other face - arguing and yelling over stupid, little stuffs. The movers? We packed up everything we should find and they would move it in under an one hour n' half... Impressive.

You don’t realize how much random stuffs you have until you need to fit it all into your car. Sure, when you are actually living somewhere, you may think that your collection of expired coupons and the stuffed Cartman doll you drunkenly snagged from the claw game one night are necessary bits of modern living. But god dammit if the second you realize that you need to pack that shit up, you don’t have the urge to throw that shit away, then you are a better person than I am.

The worst part isn’t finding all the shit you are OK with tossing, though. The worst part is realizing what it is that you can’t part with. A little batman toy you got from a cereal box, a hot wheels Delorean, a poster you got from a magazine that you never intend to actually hang up. Hell, you are never going to ever use ever but for some reason you can’t throw out. It makes you feel like you are the star in a new episode of Hoarders. It’s depressing.

Both emotional and physical toll make moving an unwelcome experience. However, you can always look at the brighter side: you will be living in a new place, making new friends and perhaps enjoying a new lifestyle. The physical toll can be eliminated when you are able to hire a good moving company.

Anyway, that's enough about me and onward to the part where you really came here for!

These pictures are from the Design Drawing class at the UW. Basically they are an excerise to get brush up on your two-points perspective drawing skills.

How to draw cubes by using "Root Method" and "Diagonal Method" tutorial

No, we don’t design cubes, but the cube is a basic unit of spatial measurement.  Our design exercise was to draw five compositions of five (or more) perfect cubes in perspective – freehand. Don’t even try to use a straight-edge to draw them; Professor Sang-Gyeun Ahn would call you right out. We did a lot in class that first semester, but every night we had to draw those damn cubes for days/nights until they were perfect. It was a form of Industrial Design bootcamp. 

Cube Composition #1

Cube Composition #2

Cube Composition #3

Cube Composition #4

Cube Composition #5

I know they can be little bit boring right now but wait 'til later, I have the good stuffs that are yet to post. Stay tune!