David's OBDF Blog

       These are my first couple ideas. I decided to start How Bryan told us to, with lowercase and uppercase and different combos until we found some good ones. This worked pretty well to help me realize what I dont really like and what I want in my design. I realized pretty quick that I don't really like the lowercase in the logos, I think it doesn't work really well with the shape of the letters. The preliminary designs:      I then got distracted with a new autograph (possibly) which kind of helped me clear my mind and I managed to just pump out a bunch more designs until I couldnt anymore. After all of these I couldn't think up any more designs so I decided to call it there. The brain dump: The final choices:      Overall I think I chose some that I really like, one of the designs is actually my current artist mark and I like it quite a lot, though I try not to be too biased. Next class i'm curious to see what other people think and...

      For this project I originally wanted to model a castle after Minas Tirith from LOTR, but while modeling it I realized that it wasnt coming out how I neccesarily wanted and decided that it would look a little boring. I decided to pivot and make a more detailed castle, and modeled one after The academy of Raya Lucaria from Elden Ring.      This is the inspiration image: This is my model: Some close up shots:     My main focus for this project was to make it as detailed as possible and try to make natural rock formations for the base. I think I managed to complete both goals, and am very happy with how it turned out.      One of my main struggles with the project was getting the rocks to look realistic, but after a bunch of research and struggle I managed to semi - figure it out. Next time I make something natural like this I do want to try to have less meshes becasue right now the file is massive and it gets a little laggy when ...

     For our design I had the idea to do cassette tape storage in the shape of a cassette player, and we decided to go with it. I like the two big speakers in front and I think that they are to main focal points when looking aat a cassette player, so it's important that we have them in our final design. We also were decideing wether or not to actually make a funtioning handle for easy carrying, and we'll have to figure that out at a later date.      All of these designs are really good, and I think that they all have great feaftures that we will be able to put together to make an aesthetically pleasing and functiuonal design.

     The film really spoke to me and helped me figure out what I wanted to do for this project. Whilst watching the film I was actively drawing out ideas. The minimalistic design was heavily influencd by Objectified, as that what the main idea was. I think that I managed to capture all the main ideas brought forward in the film through my designs.      I think that my designs are very functional, and relatively aesthetically pleasing. I also wanted to make sure that they are easy to instaqll, so I drew on screws where screwholes would be. My designs are also pretty simple, makigng them easy to print and mass produce. All of my designs I made based off what Dieter Rams said a good design was: I made the designs as little designed as possible, was consistent in my design, made them structurally stable as to be longlived, they are flat and unobtrusive, aesthetica and pleasing to look at, and useful.      This assignment was really interesti...

     For my design I originally wanted to go with the very complicated one (image for reference), but after attempting to print it a few times I realized that I would need more support for the base so that the print wouldn't fail.      I decided that I was going to go with the spire, because it also looked good and had all the criteria needed for this project. It has a very satisfying shape, and since it's symmetrical it's pleasing to look at. It's also self - supporting and can print without failure. I did size it down so that it could fit within the size constraints.     I used bambu slicer to slice my model because I have a Bambu lab P1P, but it didn't change much because I used the same trick with spiral vase where I turned it on then off to get all the right settings. This project printed with both ends closed, and single perimeter.                           ...

     I was really excited to start this project, because I love 3-D printers and printing in general, as I have my own printer at home. I also got a little bit of an advantage with this, as I have about a year of 3-D printing knowledge that definitely helped me out during the project.      This was the very first model I made for this project, albeit it is a bit simple but I think it shows off the main components of this project pretty well. I wanted to use some of the new commands we learned as much as possible throughout this project, and I think I have learned a lot about rhino.      I actually accidentally made these prong forms while playing around with the loft function. I attempted to loft a bunch of circles into points to make some cones, and I made a prong. I then found out that it would result in a slightly different prong form and direction depending on where I attempt to loft the arrangement. Once I found this out, I also realized...