Papercraft Process

Above are the final renders of my model made in Rhino.

As for the physical object, I am working on improving my craft and assembling an appealing-looking object this week.

Another step in my papercraft process. This time I scaled up my model, removed the troublesome leaf, separated the main apple exterior into upper and lower halves to fit an eight-and-a-half by eleven sheet of cardstock, and laser-cut my apple with added tabs to see if it was functioning yet.

This current draft lacks a few final details, like the teeth. I'll be introducing these final touches to the model when I have improved the craft of the object as a whole by using hidden applications of glue instead of tape.

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Papercraft Object Process 2

First I scaled up my apple in Rhino to what I felt was an appropriate size. I’ve decided now that I want to try something larger, but the size I set it to for this prototype was about two inches in diameter. I bought colored card stock and separated each unwrapped layer in order to print. Then I discovered that my printer would not print on card stock and a trip to Staples was just as unsuccessful. So, I didn’t know how to proceed. I decided to just make an accurately scaled prototype of this type, having to try again in color on the next one. I’m still unsure how to approach the differently colored sections. I tried to trace the patterns from plain card stock onto the different colors, but my tracing paper didn’t leave much of a mark and was imprecise. I have to experiment with cutting out individual sections of the apple to attach to the rolled and taped version or finding some way to print on colored card stock. So far I’m mostly satisfied with this prototype...

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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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