Category: Ideal gift (Kim’s project)

Ideal gift

Portal

The three words that I was given where Hockey, travel and chicken nuggets. During my initial designs I designed a portal that was activated when a hockey ball was hit in. I then went on to develop this idea further by including her favourite food into the design, I incorporated this by creating the shape of the portal as the food. I was able to have all three elements mixed into this design as the portal is activated when the hockey balls are hit into the bottom and the portal allows her to travel within seconds to any place she wants.

Magic map of magnolia

My partner was Nathalie, she said she liked to travel mostly around Europe, she liked music (rap, alt, and indie) and she liked to dance, specifically ballet. so at first, my gift idea was a gift basket filled with a travel pillow, headphones, and 2 tickets to the ballet. But I thought that was a bit vanilla. so instead I made a magic map of magnolia a county that lives inside a scroll and when you step on it you enter the world. In the world, you can manifest anything you want in that moment eg… the ballet.

Dior invitation

My partners main facts about herself were: food, fashion and music so i thought the best present that would include all three thing could be a fashion week pass to an event. Her favorite designer brand is Dior so i thought an invitation to Dior fashion week would be fitting as all three thing (music, food, fashion) are present at those events.

Safety Bubble Gift

Process of Design:

My partner Lewis loves playing football, however he has a condition called Haemophilia which can be described as a bleeding disorder where the blood in the body lacks the necessary amount of clotting factors preform proper clotting. As this could lead to issues during injury, I have designed a safety bubble with built in football boots and medical equipment in order for Lewis to stay as safe as possible when partaking in football. I have also added a magnifying like lens in the front of the bubble in order for Lewis to see easier as he also needs glasses/contact lenses to see. I decided on this feature as it could be dangerous to play with glasses and contact lenses as they could cause injury in wake of a fall. And finally I have added a zip at the rear of the bubble to exit when needed.

 

 

Music box lamp

The first mini project in design practice 1 module, to design an ideal gift to our partner base on three of their fun facts.

As my partner is a k-pop, anime and art lover, I first come up with the idea of designing a spieldose (music box) with moving anime characters. Fortunately, this idea is adopted and developed further into my final design.

In the developing stage, I have given three random words of ‘Army’, ‘Books’ and ‘Bed’. Nevertheless, I only chose ‘Bed’ as it is associated with an extended idea of a multi-functional desk lamp slash Bluetooth music player, which fitted with modern design, also best to play as a ‘Bedtime Toy’. By connecting her favourite k-pop music, switching on the aesthetic moving machine with anime characters, as well as a desk lamp for lighting purposes, it becomes her ideal gift.

Although the gift has multi-functions that suit her fun facts, the model may be too complicated in manufacturing. On the whole, some adjustments with the colour scheme and simplify modelling will be needed if it turns into an actual product.

Scribble-as-you-go Backpack

Brief

After discussing three unusual/interesting facts with your partner, use these to design an ‘ideal gift’ for them using the ‘Double Diamond’ design process (Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver) by the Design Council .

Initial Ideas

The three facts I was given about my partner were:

  • She likes things to be organised, yet she herself just uses scraps of paper to make notes
  • She enjoys nature, the colours of it as well as its forms- and especially taking photos of it
  • Her favourite colour is blue

At first I considered going down a photography focused route by designing a camera that would take pictures exactly as she wanted. However it was difficult to incorporate the rest of her given facts into this. For this reason I decided to explore the fact that she likes things to be organised. I started this by thinking about the detail that she uses scraps of paper rather than a full notebook. This made me think of a wall planner to go above her desk with rolls of paper and small paper pads of varying sizes that she could tear off and use. To incorporate her love of nature, I added a wildflower design to the notepads to make the gift more visually appealing, and to create an overall theme for it.

Development

After finishing this design idea, I used the Random Word Technique so that I could develop this idea even further in more creative ways. The word I ended up with was BACKPACK. To incorporate this into my original idea, I took inspiration from a recently popular tote bag from IKEA which has gained a lot of attention for being versatile and practical. Using this bag as a starting point, I thought of ways to include a planner and camera into design. Rather than taking up the space inside of the bag for these, I thought of adding an extra pocket on the outside of the bad purely to hold small pads of paper, a notebook, pens, and pockets for anything extra. To include the photography aspect, I decided to add a small sleeve on the strap of the bag that could hold a slim camera, for example a Paper Shoot camera. Finally, to address her final fact- her favourite colour being blue, as well as her love of nature, I decided to make the bag blue, and add an embroidered wildflower pattern to it to add visual interest and adhere to her preferences.

Final Render

Initially I found it difficult to try and think of one object that could tie together three completely different facts, however I soon discovered that this was the goal of the project: to think outside of the box and generate creative solutions rather than trying to find something that already existed. For example. using the Random Word Technique was new and unfamiliar to me, but I it challenged me to explore different ideas and ways of experimenting during my design process.

Electronic Easel

For this assignment, my partner’s name was Jess. The three facts she gave me were:

  1. Enjoys art
  2. Avoids cycling due to various injuries from it
  3. Enjoys baking

With these facts, I drew a baking kit, an electronic easel where you can submit your work to an attached printer, and a bicycle with a parachute to avoid it ever flipping over. The electronic easel is personally my favorite if we had to choose just one.

Lakers Jersey

Our first task was to create an ideal gift for someone we didn’t know, using three or more, fun or crazy facts about them. My partner was Luca, his facts were:
– Loves music (specifically Drake)
– Cooking (specifically carbonara)
– Is from Italy
– Loves basketball (Lakers)

My initial thought was to create a speaker and/or headphones in the shape of a basketball. I drew out a few sketches, but I wanted to be a bit more creative. I was thinking, if I did do the basketball idea, I wouldn’t know where to incorporate his love for cooking or his home country.

After some more thinking I came up with my final and complete gift. I created a lakers jersey where I added small details inspired by the facts I was given. For example, his age is the number seen on jersey and his sponsorships are from an Italian pasta brand (Barilla) and his home country. I also added an extra sponsorship from “Certified Lover Boy” (CLB) in the bottom right corner, which is Drakes new released album.