This project was a problem solving task set over the time scale of three weeks, when we were assigned this project we were told that for the first week we would be assessed as individuals by the ideas and research we could allocate for the next step to be assigned in the second week.
These were some of my ideas:
In week two of the three week duration we appointed groups and told to collectively combine our individual ideas to design and build only one drawing machine as a group.
Our randomly selected group organised by tutors Ed and Pete, consisted of the following eight people including myself:
Leeanne Wright
Thomas Pacheco
Steven Makuka
Tony Harrington
Omar Ahmed
Wonda Heywood
Courtney
Nathan
We started off by sitting around a large table, taking each others details, Names, Email addresses and phone numbers so we could contact each other to discuss our processes.
We then discussed our objectives, first one being a group name, which we finally came to a unanimous agreement, should be Mechanical Minds logo beings ‘M and M’s’, Mechanical because off the task at hand and minds because it is the combination off our minds in which we need to complete the best out come.
The second objective being a title for our machine and as our machine was designed to produce circles we wanted a fun and creative title for our machine, we debated between two names Circle Mania and Circle Fun, and finally come to an agreement with Circle Mania.
We then discussed what material would be need and how would it work, we made a quick sketch of the parts we that we may need:
I thought the best way of showing colours would be an image made of colours and as it was a drawing machine that i should use an image made up of drawing utensils.
This was the image i chose found using google search engine:
Using Adobe Photoshop tools i deleted the dark background as i wanted to inset as a layer an image relating to mechanical objects, I searched for this kind of image also via google and found this image:
I then merged down the two images to make one image and using filters and tools manipulated the image until i was satisfied then overlayed bold text and typography such as this letter,
to create this final image:
One task was designing using software such as Photoshop and using ideas from the rest of my group members we discussed our main target audience for marketing and also who would most need our project, as our design creates accurate circles anyone using stationary such as compasses would find our project very useful.
Another task was to design visual images to attract an audience to our machine. As a group we discussed methods of attraction, and decided that it would be through colour, I then thought of ways of representing colour whilst also relating to our group name and machine title.
The object of the machine was to have moving parts that create a clearly drawn images on either a vertical or horizontal sheets of paper.
The machine could work by itself or with an operator but to clearly be a ‘machine’ that crates clearly ‘drawn’ images.
We had to record everything that we had done throughout the process of creating our final outcome e.g.
drawings, Marquette’s, collages and early ideas.
In the earlier days of the second week we appointed individual tasks for each of us to brake down the work pressures but still came together to make any big final decisions.
The making of the final drawing machine was similar to the prototype miniature fan like version which we presented in the first week.
These are some of the parts used the third image to the right hand side is the combination of the two images on its left.
The preocess making of the machine did take a few modifications of the parts as you can see in the image.
This is how we tested the machine to see if it was actually working as it should do, and as you can see it’s a success.
These images below are the result of CIRCLE MANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I Think these images are AMAZING but the next image is my favourite and shows the diversity of our machine.
Mikey Mouse Made by Mechanical minds CIRCLE MANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We thoroughly enjoyed this project and loved working with the people involed in accomplishing such a great result.
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