Improved Sketches + Painting

I felt as though my analytical sketches and my ergonomic painting were a bit sloppy, so I re-did them. I really tried to capture the details that are in the real product, to give the consumer a clear idea of what the product looks like.

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Logo Improvement

Originally, my chindogu logo was very simple text in helvetica bold. To give it an extra edge, I added 3 rain drops. One of the rain drops is the tail on the Q in “Aqualarm”. Stacey helped me with creating a second layer of the text, making it pop more.

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Chinatown Photomontage

For my photomontage, I used the eraser tool to take the white background off of my croquis. It took a very long time and I only used the eraser tool because I could not find the magic wand tool. My croquis are extremely tall and even though they are not proportionate to the other people in the photograph, they are very prominent (which is what I was going for).

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Typeface

The word for my typeface was “flow” and when shopping for my material, I wanted to get something smooth and fluid. I decided to get Sriracha, and I used it to write my letters in cursive. I ended up naming my font “spice” because it ties in the hot sauce aspect and the playfulness  of my letters.

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Product Design Brief

This morning, I began the making of my product design brief. It was a very simple design with a blue background. Then, we had our lunchtime lecture from Micheal Boylan and Spencer Lin. I was very inspired by the looks of their presentations. They were very sleek, modern, and strategic. This prompted me to start my product design brief over. I took a picture of my Chindogu on the white cement floor, and image traced it so that I could use it as my background. I then scanned my drawings and my painting and inserted them. I struggled slightly when it came to the wording of my product description. For my action shot, I put together 3 pictures that I screen shotted from a video of my product being used. My logo was done in white Helvetica bold, which was inspired by Spencer Lin’s sleek power point on his “Pill Pal.”

Construction and Painting

To further the construction of my Chindogu, I added the “clock.” I glued a picture of an analog clock onto a piece of basswood and drilled a small hole in the center for the upper dowel. I tied the string from the upper dowel to a screw that I put in the lower dowel. Additionally, I added the cups on both platforms. The upper dowel has more weight on the front side, so I used a larger cup for the counterweight side. I then spray painted the project silver, to give it a sleak, modern look.

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Chindogu in action:

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Initial Construction

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*The small cube on the back end of the dowel is referenced as “panel 8” in this post

To begin constructing my Chindogu, I cut panels 1-8 out of bass wood with a small saw. I cut the lower dowel to the right length, and drilled holes in panels 3 and 4 so that the dowel would be secure, but still be able to rotate. I secured panels 3 and 4 to panel 6 with to small pieces of wood.

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Some of the tools I used:

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Chindogu Explanation

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Panels 1-7 are made out of bass wood

The general structure is held together by wire nails and glue

Panels 1 and 2 secure the Chindogu around the user’s headboard

The cup is glued to panel 5

The cube on the back end of the lower dowel is a temporary representation of the counterweight that will be necessary

The upper dowel is attached to the lower dowel by a piece of string.

When the upper dowel is twisted* the string pulls on the lower dowel and flips panel 5, flipping the cup

*The dowel will be twisted by hand because the “clock” that would twist the dowel is a dummy clock (to simulate what the real product would look like.) It is a piece of wood with a paper clock face attached

 

Chindogu Development

I sketched out potential ideas for the construction of my Chindogu. Originally it was going to be a tall tower that suspended a large bucket over the user. My idea evolved into a less cumbersome, smaller product that rests on the headboard of the user.

Rough Sketches:

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Axonometric Sketch:

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Chindogu Idea

For my Chindogu, I had two ideas that I was deciding between. The first was a set of silver wear that had fans to cool off your food. My second idea was an alarm clock that squirted you with water. I decided to pursue the second because I felt as though it would challenge me more and get me to think creatively. My idea evolved from an alarm clock that squirted you, to an alarm clock that dumps water on you.

My initial ideas:

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