The Unreaveled

The process of having graffiti displayed around the area will distort the environment and create a scene where people will be utally confused on the situation. We want to give an expression of a C.S.I theme where people have been killed, murdered near the AUT building. Using the effects of combining graffiti and the life of unrealistic gang commitment will be used in the themes. We want to have an expression of natural errors where gangs have graffitied in town, This will show the reality of how gangs contagiously always disturb walls with paint and spray cans. These images explains the ideas of the combination of Colours which are the expressions of different varieties of gangs and combining the use of the spray can reflects the idea of graffitied walls. We wanted to confuse people by conducting wall posters and putting them up on the streets to display that there is someone in the area who is dangerous and looking for trouble and then slowly building the scene into a more in-depth situation where people start to notice that this is serious by recognising the effects of having also displayed after a fews day of posting the posters, Having a scene of an outlined chalked body with an out of bounds sign around the scene with blood dripped over the chalked body. This idea has been taken to the next stage of infringements and crime scenes.      

Final Product

End Product Design. 

This is my final product fully completed in the design process. I have conducted this design because it flows and operates in contrast to my previous audio design that we used in the audio foundation. We used the stair wells to manufacture our idea of using different moderate sounds that represents the idea of giving each individual level its own voice. vocalizing the personality and consciousness of the building through pre-recorded sounds played through various speakers placed in different levels of stairs in the audio foundation building.. The uses of materials that I have used for this package basically operate around plastics (Perspex). My original idea evolved with creating the design to stand in a upright position in a 90 degree angle to reflect the medians of the stair well, Starting from the CD cover being in a flat position - this represents the first level, Then from gliding along the rails which this represents the idea of flowing down to the second stair level and then the package completing the stages to the end of it standing in a full upright position. I struggled with the fabrication process because my design needed to be manufactured through using a 3D printer to give my design a more effect and professional finish. The base needed to inform to be able to allow the CD cover to glide along the rails. This has limited and lacked my design to being able to turn upwards because the pins and the rails do not fit together properly. I had to laser print my product out into separate components and glue them all together. This was a total disadvantage because the entire product needed to be fabricated into one entire piece. We had no lecture to help us to use the 3D printing during the process of this assignment. My original idea was designed and developed perfectly. I took my product design into a CD packaging company to interview how my design will operate and if the foundations of this product will work. After interviewing my design, Forge said that the design will work to the foundations to both pieces, they said that the only thing that I needed to worry about were the pins and the rails. The pins and the rails are the main operational elements to this design. If I were to re-do this assignment, I will insure that the product manufacturing process will be calibrated to a higher standard and I will organise my materials properly to the standards of using proper and appropriate cardboard to reflect my original idea of nature being taken over by technology. Giving each piece of material its own voice. The CD design was constructed to inform the idea of distorted sounds that we used in the stair well, Aural Terrain project. I wanted to explore different contrasting images to pull the idea of the stair well. Imprinting the stairs on to the Compact disk and altering the threshold of the image reflects the idea of distorted sounds on each level.  

Perspex Net.

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The Advantages of CO2 Laser Cutting

• The laser creates a beam of light that is used to cut through the material, so there is no part of the laser system in contact with the material.
• For thinner materials, all Epilog laser systems include an Integrated Vacuum Table to hold down papers, fabrics, and thin plastics as you cut through the material.
• It is amazingly precise, following the pattern you've drawn on screen.
• Cut several patterns from the same piece of material.
• You can print to the laser from a variety of programs, including CorelDRAW, AutoCAD and Adobe software.

The images illustrate the definition of laser cutting prints. Having the laser printer at had has made the manufacturing process of this package a whole lot easier. It has saved time and effort of steady and patient cutting edges with a craft knife. The net displays the base part of the design and the 5mm rails. In producing this net, I used illustrater to conduct this design. The brilliant effects of the laser printer has precise cutting edges. Disadvantage of the printer, it burns the product which can defer the designs colour.  

Compact Disk Design

These images illustrates the final designs of for each CD. This designed influences the idea of having the use of the stair wells added onto the CD's. It reflects the ideas from the previous project of when used the stairs wells to present our audio foundations. The development in conducting the design of these CD's were created by a original image taken of a stair well and I used photo shop to alter the image by dropping the threshold to give the design a more contrasting and distorted effect that allows the idea behind it to relate to to changes of technology to the time of when the audio foundation had industrial manufacturing companies.  

Fabricating casing foundations for CDs

The images illustrated show my fabrication stages of constructing the foundations of the CD packaging product. Materials used for this object are Perspex, Compact Disk trays and acrylic stickering. For the label design, I conducted my own designs for each individual package. Each containing the same shape and form of having the three level stair well design. I struggled with stickering the labels onto the perspex due to the lack of experience and knowledge of professional stickering. They all contained bubbles and bumps over the sticker layers. I used the a graphic set square to lay each sticker onto the material to remove the humps and bumps. As i progressed through my manufacturing stages, I found a more reasonable (easy) way to produce a more eye catching label design. I layed an entire vinyl sticker over the perspex and then I removed the existing vinyl materials from cutting out my label design from the front of the package. I packaged and glued a sandwich of trays and perspex together alongside with cardboard in between to act and the meat of the cover. Overall the process of this stage is complete.        

Mocking Up

This is the process of mocking in my CD packaging product. Materials that I have used to manufacture this design is basic corrugated cardboard, Compact disk tray, and durable vinyl stickers. During the progression of my design I began with gathering the appropriate materials that i can use at the most cheapest rate. Rather then sending the cardboard in for laser printing, I  briefly marked the foundations of the card board and then made a split down the two sides of the card board to act as the glide rails to support the compact disk base. The disadvantage of development of the design is that I have struggled on inputting the sliding pins that slot into the CD tray. Having to research information is easy but having to fabricate the product is very difficult. I way around this situation is to cut out very small pieces of opaque perspex to a reasonable size that can then be applied into the sliding rail on the CD tray. The stickering process has been inspired by the construction of our previous assignment, which was the audio terrain. Reason for having the basic structure of the stairs is because it contrasts the aesthetics of the stair well that we used for the audio terrain. Its pulls the idea behind the reasons of having the stair well reflected onto the design idea of my packaging design. I have still yet to manufacture the major products of this assignment, but obviously i have made a staring process. Development has been fully completed but as of yet I am still under the progression of manufacturing my design product.

Out at forge, Phil Rose gave me some disc trays for my design. I needed these to apply onto my CD package . This will help keep the CD stuck on to the tray with out it falling out. The design aesthetics of these are very basic and modern with is perfect for my design. Its contrasts my design of being opaque and light that this will help bring my product to life and look attractive. I have vinyl that can possibly be used to wrap around the foundation of the package to give it that glossy look. The vinyl pulls out this very eye catching effect. For my design, the materials that i will be using is Plastic, Card board and flexible vinyl. For the base I will print out a proper fully designed template and cut and fold the base of the product. My design contains a gliding rail for the CD tray to fall and grind onto. Using the laser printer will give my the directions of where to fold and cut.    

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FORGE MEDIA DESIGNERS

In regrads to researching information about the varieties of mechanical CD packaging design I attended a forge media interview to illustrate my design to a Forge Media designer Phil Rose. During the interview i presented my work to him, He commented on my final concept and said that this desing is something that could be sold to forge CD pachage market. They found my design to show contrasting terminology and that having the CD package being able to be uplifted and glide on the packages base was very constructive in terms of a designers view. They said that this design will be time consuming in terms of fabricating the product. I was considering on sending my final product to forge to manufacture my product to visualise what my end design will look like. I was observant over the system of manufacturing 5 of the same products. Rather than conducting 5 equal designs, I will first start a mock up for the package, Mock up refinement, Mock up of package with design stickering, Mock up of the final piece (published and complete) and finally a 3D print out of the final CD package product. Reason for this process is because it costs to much to manufacture 5 individual 3D print of each package. Forge has been very helpful of giving me personal and encouraging information (facts) for my design. They couldn't supply the materials because they only operated with fabricating the entire piece. Phil Rose gave me some from CD trays for when I complete the product, I could then paste my CD trays onto the package. After the interview from forge I then went out to Blomfield Singes to check out their printing. They gave me some vinyl along side with some card board. The materials that they gave weren't the proper fabrication stuff that i needed. Iv still yet to find some proper materials for me to complete my design.