Poetic Products

This is essentially an extension of the previous IDE1112 Studio Project: "Sculpture". We were told to take the form theory, and philosophy from our sculpture, in order to create a product.

Some students in the class had decided to use the first 10 pages of their initial concept drawing to decide upon what product best suits their form. I, on the other hand, just jumped straight into it and choice to rehouse a Full Automatic Coffee Machine.

As so, I began researching and figuring out components required for such a complicated machine. Admittedly, having a few units of engineering under my belt really did help me figure out a lot of the components. It was probably the most enjoyable part in the process.

Having done that, I began playing with form, attempting to include as much of my cardboard sculpture in the final product as possible. I ended up with two final Concepts

Conception One: Aiming to capture as much of the sculpture into my final product as possible. Taking abstract features and philosophies and making them concrete.

Concept Two: The problem that I ran into with Concept One, was that there was a single element of the sculpture that I couldn't incorporate without disturbing the form. This concept came from the isolated the Sculptures head, and expanding the form focus from there.

We were required to design a lot of the components. I think I over engineered a lot of it.

The soul purpose of this project was to make the Industrial Design students learn to the balance of Form and Function. To learn how things come together to create a product. We were required to submit Layout drawings showing the internals and a general construction of how things came together.


Final Model! Made out of cardboard because Foam was too messy and annoying to source!