WEEK SEVEN
Week Seven: Using my handwritten poster in week six, I created a Photoshop visual document (17x11).
Introducing the Wacom Vase Pen Holder.
So, to start off the model structure that I went with is a flower vase type of pen holder that will be able to hold the capacity of 10 Wacom pens. I went with this idea because my client (Ms Skiba) loved the idea of having a flower vase holder. Not only does she love the idea, but flower vases are an item that holds aesthetic meaning and features to it.
The vase is able to be screwed onto the wall because of these two flaps that are on the side of the vase. As you can see, there is ¼ of an inch cut in diameter for a Tapcon screw to be fit in. As for the shape, I wanted to be unique... so instead of making an oval shape type of vase, I decided to make it big at the top, wide in the middle and then smaller at the bottom.
How the pens will fit in is that there is a 5 inch cut in length and in diameter is 3/8 of an inch in respect to the Wacom pen. Because the pen is 5 1/2 inch, the pen will stick out 1/2 an inch allowing for the student to be able to pull it out from the vase.
The material that I will be using is plastic such as HDPE (high density polyethylene) or PET (polyethylene terephthalate) because they’re good in the sense that they don’t release or cause any chemicals. Also it’s cheap to produce, light in weight and durable. If it does manage to drop, most likely the pens will not break because it’s inside of the vase nor will the vase itself.
After the four days (Friday), and here is the beginning of the modelling for our design. Here we spent two days of this week working on Solid-Works to make our idea into a real, 3D object on computer.
