Seaside Branding

In the previous subject 88100 Object and Accessory Design: Foundations, I named my bowl Seaside as feelings of the beach, being by the sea and sand between the toes resonated from looking at the photos below. To me, this bowl would be perfect in that setting and therefore suits the name Seaside.

To tie in with my personal branding I also wanted the Seaside branding to be clean and simple and also compliment and enhance the feelings of being be the sea.

- Olivia Hunt

OH designs

Personal branding is an extremely important element to success. In order to sell your products you also need to sell yourself, who you are and what you do.
My brand OH designs not only represents my initials O.H. but also plays on the onomatopoeic sound ‘Oh!’. To emphasise this the tag line for my brand is “Spark a Reaction”.
I like very clean, simple and slightly quirky designs and I have incorporated this through the font types I have used.

- Olivia Hunt

Design Development and Refinement

The development of the design was mainly through sketching and paper mock-ups to test out the overall shape and distinguish any problems with the design. Here are a few sketches showing the direction the bowl is taking.

initial sketches

After selecting three final sketches, we developed them and refined them. Shown below is the process of refinement.

product refinement

- Rochelle Green

Inspiration From Nature

The brief of this project was to design a fruit bowl that was inspired from nature. We were to choose a few images as a basis for designing. These could be coral, flowers, fruit, animals and any other pattern seen in nature. Here are a few images of the Aranea bowl's inspiration.

tree roots 

leaf veins

spider web 

structural system

From these images we started concept sketching and came up with initial designs for the fruit bowl. I took two main elements from the inspiration images: the structural system of the leaf veins and the literal shape of a spider's web.

- Rochelle Green

Coralis

The Coralis fruit bowl is a name I came up with at the end of the Autumn Semester. It's a one word catchy name that reflects the bowls inspiration or Coral.

The first week of this Special Industry class I began working on the graphics for the bowls name. Below are some sketches on deciding the type face, and how I wanted it to look.

I wanted to incorporate the pattern of my fruit bowl into the name so I worked with the coloured Coralis at the bottom in the image on the right. After the sketches, I scanned it into the computer and tried live tracing. However I wanted to still manipulate the letters, so I ended up with using the pen tool.

Developing the Coralis logo, to come up with the final one (at the bottom)

-Cristina Del Rosario 

Introduction

The University of Technology, Sydney has given the students who undertook the Object and Accessories Design 1 : foundations where we design and produced a fruit bowl of our own design. The following images is the fruit bowl I made for the class and named Oscillate which is to be placed on display.

Finished fruit bowl

Finished fruit bowl

  

Finished fruit bowl

As part of the id.shop exhibition a number of bowls are to be recreated and sold during the exhibition. The bowls getting sold all need their own custom packaging created. This blog will follow our design process and act as a tool to generate interest into the id.shop experience and as a way to showcase our own unique ways of designing.

Christopher Mullen

Seaside Inspiration

Looking at a wide range of details exhibited by nature, the geometry and patterns created by sea shells was seen as extremely intriguing. Each shell has a different shape and structure adding to the abundance of inspirational resources.
When Lion’s Paw sea shells overlap they subtly create a very elegantly geometric pattern like an arrangement of handheld paper fans. Sea shells are fascinating as they are rigid yet consist of gentle curves. The juxtaposition of the two create an interesting and striking feature.

- Olivia Hunt

Sales card development original

The sales card was developed over two stages. The first stage involved the layout and also the external shape. Eventually these two were resolved and a rounded edge rectangle was chosen whilst the logo had elements distorted and altered. Colour was also a big issue as it lacked this element due to its greyscale look. As an attempt to add colour, yellow was chosen and gradients were placed on the logo.


Edward Yao

Making the bowl

The final design of the bowl was then created into line graphics that was then sent to the Digital Workshop to be laser cut. Once it was laser cut I began sanding the acrylic so that it would look more like a finished product, by rounding the edges and removing the laser markings.

Below are some images of the step by step production process, after the acrylic had been laser cut with the design.

1) From the Digital Workshop: The acrylic is covered with a plastic film for protection.

2) After peeling the film, the acrylic has a gloss and highly reflected surface. Edges are sharp and laser marks are evident along the sides the laser cut the design. 

3) After sanding with 180, 240 and 320 grain sand paper to matt the surface. Then wet sanding with 600 grain sandpaper. Finally polishing the surface with cut and polish. 

 4) Placed in the oven to be heated and then bent over a wok to create the 3D form of a fruit bowl. 

5) The bowl 

- Cristina Del Rosario 

Design development

Design development can be one of the most time consuming aspects of any design process. It involves having a critical eye for detail and an understanding of aesthetics and functionality. The brief set out was to gain inspiration from nature. My approach to design was to begin at looking patterns in nature and looking at close up images and try and identify trends. Some patterns had an organised randomness about it whilst other patterns had varied degrees of symmetry. Personally i found patterns that were non symmetrical the most visually interesting and below are some images of early design development.

-Mariana Abdo

Logo Development Original

The approach for the initial idea of the logo was to take the main source of inspiration, the “honey comb” and build the logo around the geometric shape of the hexagon. A stronger link was needed between the name of the bowl, Mercury Hive and the final output of design. Therefore, arms were placed on four corners of the hexagonal shape. Elements of text were then added to figure out specific typefaces that could be used, eventually a personalised typeface was chosen and extra arms were added to fill in all 6 corners of the hexagon.

Edward Yao

Introduction and Inspiration

This Special Industry class is a continuation of Object and Accessory Design 1, where students had a chance to design and produce a fruit bowl. 

Inspiration

Our Fruit bowls were to be inspired by nature and before the whole laser cutting process was undertaken we had to first design the fruit bowl. Looking through images on the Internet and taking photos of things around me I was highly interested in the various textures, colours and movements of nature. The images below are just some examples of the inspiration I was looking at. 

A fish hiding in coral
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Sahara Desert sand dune mottled by ripples caused by wind
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After a lot of thumbnail sketching and development with different variations on the different concepts, I came up with a final pattern.

Final pattern 

The overall look portrays a stained glass appearance of coral. The pattern involves an off centre in the design and the illusion of overlapping features, created from curves and long lines. Through this, and the use of varied thicknesses and sizes of the cut out shapes, it creates a sense of feel and movement. 

- Cristina Del Rosario 

Seaside Fruit Bowl

A previous subject resulted in the creation numerous fruit bowls. One being the Seaside fruit bowl which was designed, laser cut and then hand sanded, polished and moulded by Olivia Hunt. The following project takes this single fruit bowl into production which is to then be branded, marketing, packaged and sold.

- Olivia Hunt

Manufacturing Process

The bowls all involve the use of a laser cutter, cutting out the vector onto a sheet of acrylic (Clear, Black, White). The bowls then go through the process of hand sanding. As 5 were produced, the sanding process only occurred on the outer edge. These outer edges had to be filleted slightly and all laser cutting marks around the edge had to be removed. This process involved the use of 4 different types of sand paper including; 180, 240, 360 and 600 wet & dry.

Phase one was using the 180 p to remove any laser cutting marks outside the edges. After this was done, fillets were created to round the edges off. For a further refined contour, 240 p was used after the 180 to clean up any scratch marks but also smooth out the surface.

Five fresh bowl

Revealing the acrylic

Sanding with 180

Phase two involved removing all the shiny surfaces on both faces of the bowl. This process utilized the 360 p grade of sand paper. Phase three, the final phase involved the use of 600 p wet and dry. This process cleans the surface and also removes any light scratches created from phase two.


Sanding with 320

Wet and dry sand 600




Edward Yao

General introduction to manufacture process

UTS has given 2^nd year industrial design students the privilege to enrol in a object and accessories design which gives students an understanding of manufacturing process of lasercutting and designing for a potential client. Not only do we learn valuable skills but we also get a tangible and sell-able product at the end of it which is rare in many subjects

Below are images of the fruitbowl making process post laser cutting process. The preparation of the acrylic is vital in a quality product. This process mainly involves sanding and polishing. First the sides of the acrylic are sanded and once that’s complete a radius is applied to all the edges. Then the whole surface of the acrylic is sanded down making sure to blunt any sharp surfaces. The final process is to polish the surfaces to be ready for bending.

The acrylic is then heated up and then placed over a covered wok. The acrylic takes the shape of the wok and when cooled down stays in that shape. The fruitbowl is now ready!

-Mariana Abdo

Inspiration behind the bowl

The Mercury Hive bowl evolved from three specific forms of inspiration. Originally, drought cracks inspired the patterning with sporadic shapes. This was simplified into hexagonal patterning which as a result reflected the bee hive. The static structure of the patterning needed to be enhanced through distortion, thus the third form of inspiration was utilized, that being mercury. This created a juxtaposition of a static structure with a fluid form, thus the end resultant of the bowl utilizes this composition of two different structures.

Drought Cracks

Honeycomb

Mercury



Edward Yao

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