After the day of cutting with Cotter it was time to sketch. I quickly had ideas for one item that I was really interested in creating a box for, my flash drives and my external hard drive. I had other ideas for items to go into boxes too like my cards and ID's, pens and pencils and my Ipad mini. But none of them really struck me as fun or gave me as many ideas as my flash drives and external hard drive did.
After the sketches came prototypes. I went to work on my prototypes quick and was pretty impressed with myself, even though they really weren't that great, but they got the point across. But once I brought them into class everyone kind of had the same thing to say about mine. They are just boxes, nothing big and fancy to them. No organic shapes. All designs that don't have to be done on a band saw, when that's what we should be designing for. Even though they were kind of fun, with sliding sides for openings and one that looked like a robot, they were just an ordinary box. So it was back to the drawing board.
I decided to make a word map and play off the flash drive idea. I looked at my sketches and just thought of things that you associate with flash drives. Computers, technology, usb ports, etc. And then I saw it. I looked at the shape and design of one of my flash drives. It was right in front of me the entire time. A simple rounded box with a curved line in the middle. That would be my box design.
To try and not make this incredibly long, since I still need to add some photos, I'll post the rest of the project on a new post. :)
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