3D Design Week

In our final week of the exploratory stage we have been doing 3D Design, I have decided to choose this topic as my specialist area as I think it will be beneficial to my career path in theatre design. At the beginning of the week we were given a introduction into design and the processes that design involve. We were also given a list of designers and assigned home study to research one designer from the sheet, two that were from the Bauhaus school of arta nd design and two not on the sheet from our own preferance. We also did some one point and two point perspective drawing in the afternoon which was enjoyable as I could do it quite well as I had already had experience in this from my theatre design A level.

The second day of 3D Design we were given a mechanical object to draw from. Firstly in graphite stick and secondly in black ink. I found the graphite hard to work with as I was being too careful and precious with the work, trying to creatre a realistic drawing of the object. I found using the ink very effective and enjoyable and think that my work was a lot better using this media. In the afternoon we then had to create interesting shapes, inspired by our sketches and the objects we were sketching, out of paper. I found this very difficult and therefore did not create much work as I found paper hard to handle and manipulate. I hope this is because I do not have any experience within 3D Design.

On the final day of 3D Design we were put into groups and asked to create an object that was inspired by the sketches and models we had made previously in the week. It also had to represent something that could be functional in some way. Our team found this quite difficult, I think this because we were focusing too heavily on the fact that it had to be a functional object. We were thinking of function before form which was not really the idea. However we saw what we were doing wrong and tried to mend it by starting from another shape and expanding on this. As we had spent a lot of time experimenting with one idea, this meant that we did not have enough time left to create the final outcome. However I think that the processes we tried have been an interesting experience and I have learnt from them. We put in a lot of effort to the project as a team and thought of and tried some ambitious ideas.