Part of the Product Design course is learning about different materials and processes, one process that you will learn about is used in the manufacture of Lego bricks. This article gives an excellent description of the process with photos. See if you can name the manufacturing process in the comments below.
S4 have been designing some controllers for a games console. Some of them are still in construction, but as part of their evaluation they’d like to know what people think of the aesthetics. Please take a look at the photos below and then name your favourite three in order - based entirely how good you think they look. (That is, now just how well you think they’ll work)
Please leave your thoughts as a comment leave a comment like this:
“First choice : Number 4
Second Choice : Number 2
Third Choice : Number 7″
Feel free to leave any comments about them as well.
Here they are:
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
Number 4
Number 5
Number 6
Number 7
Number 8
Number 9
Thanks for looking, we’re looking forward to seeing what you think of them.
S4 have just started a project where theyare designing a controller for a games console. Here is a quick look at a mindmap they created as a whole class this morning.
Mindmapping is a really useful technique where a group of people quickly generate lots of ideas about a topic, this is particularly useful in design as you can come up with lots of factors that can influence the final product.
This year at Ross our 4th years are each designing and making a promotional radio, using the vacuum former. The pupils have to engage in all stages of the design process from brief through to manufacture and evaluation. This week Mr Thomson’s class have been working on creating moulds that will be used to create their radio’s body.
This is the first year we have run this project and an important part of t he process of for the pupils to come up with ways of manufacturing their designs.
Jennifer’s radio is a complex form made up of a number of inter-penetrating spheres. This is the second mould attempt, the first one which was made out of expanded polystyrene melted on impact with the hot plastic and didn’t hold it’s shape very well. It should have been given a coating to protect it and give it a smoother texture. When this radio is finished it should look something like this:
This version of the radio was modelled by Mr Meldrum using AutoDesk® InventorTM which the pupils will be starting to use this year. 3D modelling is an important skill for the pupils to learn and we hope to make it a big part of the activity in the department. We’ll add examples of pupil work in the future.
Shaun’s radio incorporates the Porsche badge. He is going to use a printed copy of the badge to plan where to add additional material to create raised sections. These will give the radio more texture and make its interactions with the light more interesting.
You can see some more images on flickr.
