Some of my first prototypes

As you can see, don't hold each other together, and cuttings are very rough.

Process

The process in which I took for my cardboard model was that of a long one. I like to take time and think about things and most of my ideas are stemmed from out of class work. Anything can trigger me e.g walking around town, going for a run etc. I find that when I am out in the open, things stand out to me. Then when it comes time to think and brainstorm, I subconsciously refer back to these objects or situations which therefore influence my idea. With my first models in the class room, I went straight away to using thin bits of paper, which I got the idea from my thin lines that I had previously drew. I was creating a 'claw' effect and had a lot of pieces of paper coming up from a few different points and slotting into a flat piece of paper that was standing up. This all looked a tad too chaotic and so I decided to add more structure and planning to my next model. Also studying and trying out different types of slots and scores to see which worked best. I stuck with this plan for a while but when It came to card it just never really worked out the way I wanted it to. I then figured out that if the flat piece of card was lay down and the lines grew out from it, it would actually work. So with a lot of models, I finally came to a conclusion. I finished, but then after a few days it became quite dilapidated and wasn't looking as good as the original creation. So i made a new one using the same methods and constructed a much cleaner, smoother looking model. When creating this, I used balance and contrast as my two words of reference.
1. Balance - because the the long pieces of card literally balance each other out and hold each other in place, if one wasn't there the whole model would not be able to stay together. They rely on each other for support.
2. Contrast - the contrast of the vertical and horizontal is visually pleasing and creates another dimension. It is not over complicating, it just works nicely and pulls the structure together.

Inspiration

We got given some president images and sketched up some modern, simple, abstract lines which best interpreted the image we had infront of us.
I felt like I took a very edgy approach, making use out of line weight and over all compacting the image into a flat, striaght edged picture.

Design 111 Project one