Lunchbox
Project overview: Drawing inspiration from a treasured childhood artifact, design a 'future' version of that object that could potentially exist in the next 20 years. The object must be painted white.
For this design exercise, I chose to study my old lunchbox and created a prototype lunchbox that could keep food suspended in 'plastic' that would maintain its temperature without maiming the contents. I opted to use plexiglass so that the class could see its contents, and created some food items out of white modeling clay.
The sandwich, cookie and banana were vacuum-formed with PETG, and I cut the plastic to fit snugly into the plexiglass lunchbox. My intention was that the 'future' lunchbox would mould its plastic around its contents, and keep the internal temperature at stasis until the user was ready to eat lunch. Only now do I understand how environmentally unsustainable this project was, but I did learn about the vacuum-form process, and how to glue plexiglass to itself. (Note: dichloromethane is a terrifying substance, but it works surprisingly well.)
Design Core Studio: 2nd year
For this design exercise, I chose to study my old lunchbox and created a prototype lunchbox that could keep food suspended in 'plastic' that would maintain its temperature without maiming the contents. I opted to use plexiglass so that the class could see its contents, and created some food items out of white modeling clay.
The sandwich, cookie and banana were vacuum-formed with PETG, and I cut the plastic to fit snugly into the plexiglass lunchbox. My intention was that the 'future' lunchbox would mould its plastic around its contents, and keep the internal temperature at stasis until the user was ready to eat lunch. Only now do I understand how environmentally unsustainable this project was, but I did learn about the vacuum-form process, and how to glue plexiglass to itself. (Note: dichloromethane is a terrifying substance, but it works surprisingly well.)
Design Core Studio: 2nd year