Objectified Response: Laptop Sketch Model

This sketch model of a laptop was inspired by Apple's Macbook Air, as discussed in Gary Hustwit's documentary Objectified. I enjoyed this section of the film and that it addressed the thoughtless integration of well-designed objects in users' lives. I appreciate pieces of technology that are seamlessly intuitive to use thanks to the hard work of their designers. I wanted to replicate this laptop with the idea in my mind of creating something that feels so natural to a user that it seems "undesigned". I liked copying the simplicity of the Macbook Air, both as someone who prefers products without any unnecessary parts and as a student using Rhino for the first time.

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Final Papercraft Object

My object is an apple / apple slices filled with teeth. Aside from being a creepy concept, it reminds me of one of a childhood memory of the first tooth I remember losing, which came out after I tried to eat an apple. I was never a big fan of apples after that. The initial prototypes for my object were a lot smaller and a little more complex. I had to abandon one aspect of the original idea: the leaf. Between prototypes, even though I tried to make it work by modelling it differently in rhino, I couldn’t figure out a way to attach the leaf, so it lost a little detail but I think that the stem alone works. As I progressed my models got a larger and more stable. My final model had me split the top and bottom halves of the apple in two, because it was that much larger when unwrapped than my original. Final Object Unwrapped Templates: Final Object Renders:

Experimentation with Trace and Unroll

In the above images, I practiced using the Trace and Unroll functions to create simple geometric shapes. I used as many basic shapes as I could think of, but the objects highlighted in red are examples of ones that did not unwrap cleanly. This was a good exercise in finding out when unwrapping will and won't work easily.

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