Class 2: 02/02/09
Sketching & Drawing
Discussion
Response to reading and stimuli from class 1.
Reactions to assignement 1.
Guest Speaker(s)
Rachel Regina, frog design
Project M, out of the box experience
popcast (poptech accelerator conference presentation of cell phone initiative and project goals)
Exercise
Packaging Prototype
Come prepared with:
Several sheets of Bristol Board (heavy weight paper)
Exacto blade
Sketch pad & pencil
Straight edge
Stimuli
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
Assignments
Reading:
Attractive Things & The Multiple Faces of Emotion & Design pdf download, from Emotional Design by Donald Norman (check email for the PDF on Google docs.
Viewing:
(more movies) Eva Zeisel
Build:
Out of the box experience - group assignment:
Based on the ProjectM presentation, work in groups to explore solutions to the packaging challenge. Bring a packaging prototype to class Monday 2/9 with evidence of how you arrived at your solution. Show your thinking, words, sketches, partial models, itterations etc. Remember that the complete experience is critical to this design, aquire the kit, open, follow instruction & dispose.
This is a big challenge. It is OK to sketch and explore the experience but concentrate on a particular aspect for the prototype. An example would be a storyboard visual sketch of the complete experience and a paper prototype of packaging that can be seperated into two parts for “pocketability.”
Constraints:
Must contain the two kits
Needs to hold viles
Must have with the package
Consider simple assembly
Keep material selection cheap and biodegradable
Resources:
packagecover_eng10
Download the above packaging PDF as a reference. You may adapt these. You do not have to use the imaging on the external side. I prefer you ignore that.
Project M: