3DD: Bridge Project

These are 5 ideas for bridges that I made in my sketchbook, not necessarily practical/functional, but encouraging innovative ideas and different styles. Each bridge is supposed to fold up easily in my book, which most do, apart from idea 3 and 5.  

3DD: Idea Generation Exercise

This quick exercise proved to be a handy way of producing innovative ideas, fast. It required making random marks/drawings, then changing then into something e.g. draw your favourite fruit, then turn it into a rabbit hutch. These images are the outcome of this exercise.
It proved to be great preparation for the task I were to do in the 3DD pathway, allowing me to think more about idea rather than practicality.

Fashion and Textiles: Shoe Idea Generation 2

These three images show 2 of my developed ideas that inspired my 'Final Design Idea'. The process of drawing out my ideas allowed me to focus more on the details in the design, which in turn created a more lengthly process. However, it wasn't too challenging as most of the ideas I used in my sketches were recycling design aspects present in my previous post (Fashion and Textiles: Shoe Idea Generation). By annotating my final idea and taking measurements (first image), it made the next stage of the projected easier.

Fashion and Textiles: Shoe Idea Generation

This image is a colour copy of a series of ideas I have for shoe designs. I chose to work with the foot because I had already experimented solely on garments for the upper body in my pervious work with paper garments, therefore I wanted to create a new challenge for myself. I really like this method of idea generation as it is quick, allows for a un-staggered creative flow and you are able to see all of your ideas close together, which helps when comparing and deciding which ideas you feel work best. I was surprised to find how many ideas I was able to come up with using this method. Usually, I can only manage to think up around three ideas. If I were to do this exercise again I would perhaps spend less time dwelling on each design in order to pump out EVEN more ideas. However, it was good preparation for the next stage of the fashion and textiles project, where I had to make sketches of more shoe designs developed from these initial, brisk ideas.