Market Day, Kwan Ho Chan Post 6

For the set up a large black cloth covered the whole table in which everyone had their store on. I bought int a green patterned cloth that complement nicely with my fruit bowl and placed that on top. I then place the box, bags and stand slightly slanted on the cloth to create a layered effect. I then placed a small notebook underneath the green cloth and place the fruit bowl on top to give it a little elevation. It was then that i realized i forgot to bring fruit and went to Woolworth to quickly buy some fruit to put on my fruit bowl. Everything was set up and ready at 9 am as the day began.

Bag Production, Kwan Ho Chan Post 5

A template is first drawn up on A1 120 gsm paper as it was readily available at the workshop. Following the measurements of the template, the graphics were glued on for a final check before production begins. Then 300 gsm textured white paper was marked with a 0.3mm marker by using the template. It was then cut out using a Stanley knife. The graphics were then placed onto the bag and with a pencil small marking were made 10mm from the inside of the graphics so that it is not visible when it is glued . The lines were all folded to prepare for the next step. Then 1400 gsm thick cardboard was measured and cut with a Stanley knife to use as a back board for the handle. Finally the back board is pasted onto the top of the bag using UHU Glue with the tab folding over it, as shown. With the back board for the handle finally being glued, the next step is to glue the graphics onto the bag permanently. Similar to the box graphics, a fresh sheet of paper is used to apply the glue onto the graphics every single time with clean hands to avoid glue marks. The graphics is glued onto the bag with care. Following that, the bag is glued together with UHU glue, with clean hands for every single tab. With the bag being glued together and the graphics stuck on it, the handles need to be tied onto the bag. The distance between each hole is marked and was used along with a 30mm distance from the top edge of the bag as the center mark of the hole punch. A 12 mm metal hole puncher is then used along with a mallet to punch a clean hole through the bag and the back board. The fabric is fed through both holes and double knotted to prevent it from coming loose.

Manufacturing the Bowls 2, Kwan Ho Chan Post 4

The second part of the production process for the fruit bowl consist of first sanding the fruit bowl’s edges. The production of 10 fruit bowls requires a much bigger set up in order to work efficiently. A large table with a double folded cloth is set up in which rolls of sandpaper is readily available on the table. First 180 grade sandpaper is used to round the edges of the bowl. Then 240 and 320 grade sandpaper is used to smooth out and to removes the scratches from previous grade sandpapers. Finally 600 and 1200 grade wet sandpaper is used with dipping it into water for a smooth, clear finish. However, one of the bowls did not cut properly on the laser cutter and some of the ovals were chipped. Therefore for that specific bowl, 600 and 1200 grade wet sandpaper was also used to smooth out it’s front and back surface. Then polish was used to remove the scratches from the 1200 grade sandpaper. The bowls were then water blasted and clean with turps before the bending process. Finally, the bowls were put into the oven fro 8 minutes and taken down, placed onto the new mold and pressed down on for  a minute or so before letting it cool.

Manufacturing the Bowls, Kwan Ho Chan Post 3

The bowl production process can be split into two major parts. The first part is to recreate the mold due to the fruit bowl being downsized as it’s original form was too large. After a quick testing of bending the re sized, smaller bowl on the old plaster mold, the result was less than stellar as along of the curvature was lost due to downsizing. First the new, smaller fruit ball was placed onto a thick piece of wood and the outline was drawn onto it. Then the outline of the bowl was cut out using a large band-saw. Since the piece of wood was not thick enough, a second piece was drawn and cut out. Then both pieces were glued together using PVA glue and was left to dry with weights on top of it. Once it’s dried, the piece was then band-sawed again and sanded on a disc sander, followed by hand sanding of 180 grade sandpaper.

Box Production, Kwan Ho Chan Post 2

The second stage of the box production is to use a hot glue gun to glue all the tabs neatly. A quality glue gun was bought especially for this process to ensure a steady output of hot glue. The gluing process, itself had to be quite quick as if the hot glue was left on the tab for too long it would dry out.  In order to glue quickly and effectively, a second person was needed to hold onto the section that is glued so that it would not flex forward or backwards.

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Finished boxes ready to go

Market day area level 3 DAB building

Bowl setup for market day 

The market day took place on Saturday the 30th of August 2014 on UTS open day and was the most anticipated part of the course as we got to see how people outside our bubble view our designs ,unfortunately the weather was bad and we were moved inside the DAB building on level 3 into a low traffic area so less than anticipated interaction occurred. The bowls were set up with one on presentation with fruit a box standing up, several more boxes on the table plus a A4  page with information about inspiration for the design. The day was completed with one bowl being sold. It would of been more effective if we had been in a higher traffic area or at the markets where peoples mindset is to spend money.

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Sales ticket

Swing tag

The sales and swing tags were created to replicate the outside shape of the bowl to give them identity the color scheme also matched both the bowl and the packaging graphics. The swing tag had the care instructions and designer and bowls name it was tied on with string. The sales ticket had the name of the bowl a stamp section the price and on the back side the pattern of the bowl. Both tags were printed on A3 sheets so that they all fitted saving money.