brief
Outline of brief: • Design and make a gift-ware product • Initial batch of 10+ (negotiable) • Online most likely channel for sales • Luxury... • GSA/ PDE/ Engineering • Packaging/ Branding/ Presentation • Christmas ? • Project partners Hewlett Packard + Autodesk • All products to utilize between 30-100% digital during design/production • Access to HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing (2 prototype rounds) • £50 budget per person contribution to making costs (1 product for PDE collection) • GSA technical bureau service ? Deliverables: A3 Design Folio, including: Design Rationale Development process Designed Product Packaging/Images & Flavourtext for online sales channels Physical and digital models/protos 10 products for sale A3 Poster of product Thoughts on the brief: Timings:
This is a very open-ended brief. Unlike a lot of the other briefs that we have been given hasn’t got an issue or problem to solve, rather is far more creatively focussed. One way I could focus the brief would be to impose some limitations or constraints. This narrows the scope of the project, and allows a designer to create more ‘varied’ and ‘inventive’ solutions to a ‘problem’ [Stokes 2001].
Variability, Constraints & Creativity, P. Stokes, 2001 https://205.186.157.44/imats/MonetAmPsychologist.pdf
As well as this, due to limited access to GSA facilities such as the metal and casting workshops, material selection will be limited. Due to this, I will conduct research into different and alternate materials that are easy to manufacture with equipment I have access to, or can be manufactured externally to GSA.
So What?
What Now?
Explored and expanded the given brief. Looked in context of the current COVID situation and the possibilities and adaptations needed.
Define ‘Luxury’ Look into previous products as well as other examples of giftware Create limitation on project
