Crit

Major issues raised is that my products females have a few problems with their design... the kleenex lady on my packaging has a problem here:

She has some junk in her trunk. I had noticed that this was a little issue but I thought that I could of got a way with it. I think the use of colour was wrong which made this appear to be as it is. If a grey was used it then wouldn't be as in depth, but as the tank top and underwear are the same colour it makes the image bigger and makes she look like a he, which is a little nightmare in the campaigns success, So I need to sort this out ASAP.

and my pin up woman's main problem is here:

She has a horn? and her face is a bit off putting... which is annoyingly true, I just can't make her a beaut, which means I should back off it and stop polishing a turd.

Other than that, people knew what I was doing and liked it but some girls agreed it worked but thought it was dirty which is the response I wanted, other issues raised were that the solution to the brief was to focussed in comparison to the brief being open, which I disagree with on certain elements as I have already stated in development information along as how the product came to be and how it works. I believe if it wasn't such a tight solution the project would have to many gaps and never end.

So it begins.

I went down to 3D design to discuss what would be needed to make my Kleenex machine. It ended up in me having to wait 24 hours to begin production which knocked my time schedule about and meant I wouldn't have visuals for the crit unfortunately. However I was able to start making my machine first thing the day of the crit in hope for it to be finished that day. To begin with I had measurements with details on the and thickness etc. So all that then had to be done was cutting out the outer frame of my box. I got to use the big saw which made me happy :).

It was a interesting and exciting experience seeing parts of a development come together, after my four strips were ready I then set a 45 degree angle to the saws blade in order to get a crisp finish in which the fixtures would then fit together as a hollow square.

Once this procedure was complete I then had to place a single rebate in each of the four edges of the wood to make a fixture for the Perspex. I then had to carefully cut out strips of tinfoil and glue them to the inside pieces of my wooden frame, making sure the tin foil was neat and did not cover any of the edge, Which then resulted in a image as so:

The reason these strips of foil were applied will be clear later on in the blog, after a nice long wait it was then time to attach each of the parts to one another to make one solid piece. I used glue on the edges and then made sure the parts lined up correctly, to avoid a parallelogram scenario. To make sure that the wood dried with the correct angles I attached to bungee corded clips to the top and bottom and made it nice and tight so I had a strong outer structure.

I then left the product to dry for 40 minutes. I came back to it after that period of time and it had dried perfectly and it all lined up just right, which pleased me and made it possible for me to move on to my next step.

Which was to cut out the back, again i used the saw to cut out a big sheet of 18 mm MDF to a size of 658x457 mm. After this was done, I then had to cover one side with tin foil leaving a 18 mm gap for the rest of the structure to be attached.

As time was running out on my day in the workshop I had to call it a day to my disappointment but with the little time I had left I was able to stick the back board to the front frame, ensuring that the rebates were on the front so the perspex could slot in perfectly, which looked like this:

As you may notice the inside is all filled with shined foil, this is because what I am making is a light box, I am going to be fixing some link lights to my product on the inside and the foil will work as a reflecting component which will display a lovely outer glow on the perspex making the product light up and seem more attention appealing.

My next task is to take the box down to a place called 'Falcon electrical' in leeds:

I plan to do this tomorrow and purchase some link lights. The issue of not being able to do it tonight is that it is shutting in ten minutes and I need to take my box down which ways a ton and needs to dry over night in order to get a strong setting.

Wish me luck with touring around Leeds in search of this place with my MDF product.