photography of furniture prototypes

photography of furniture prototypes

The photography session has been scheduled.
It will start at 8.45 am sharp on Friday 12 November. 

You must turn up on time, collect your furniture from the gallery and carry it down to the PA level 1 photography studio where Lynette Zeeng will photograph it for you.
She is giving up her valuable time to do this for you, so please be punctual and appreciative.

After it is photographed, you must take your furniture home - we have no where to store it afterwards. 

From here on in......

From here on in......

We are now at a critical stage of the furniture design project, with less than four weeks to go until the final presentation of prototypes.

So between now and then we have a lot of work to do...

1. finalise designs (we are mostly close here, but there is still some work to resolve detail design before prototyping begins

2. prototype - this will hopefully be a relatively simple process aided by the highly competent workshop technical staff - but expect things to go wrong and allow sufficient time to allow for the unexpected.
Please remember that we require a high level of finish - you can't rush it and get a good result. Plan carefully and work methodically

3. Folio - there is a project folio submission in week 12 (a week before the final presentation). This will include all project work so far and design documentation (technical drawings and the flip book -  READ THE BRIEF FOR INFO REGARDING SUBMISSION DELIVERABLES

4. Flip book - you must make a step-by-step 'user animation sequence' of your furniture and submit as a bound flip book in week 12. I will show some examples in class next week.

5. Prototype presentation will be in the level 2 gallery on Monday 8 November form 12.30pm. Students will be expected to present their prototype and blog demonstrating function and relating their design to the Centre Place environment. You must attend all presentations, not just your own. Following the presentations, the furniture will be exhibited in the gallery for the rest of the week.

6. Photography of prototypes. We will photograph all prototypes in the level 1 photographic studio on either Friday 12 or Monday 15 November (to be confirmed soon).
Students must arrive at the appointed time, carry their furniture to the studio and after photography must take their prototype home (as we are very short on storage space).
Images will be made available on a DVD through the front counter for you to borrow and copy.

7. Blog - your blogs must be up-to-date and clearly show the whole design development process from research to prototype. Don't leave anything out - the design development assessment (30% of the project) will be marked from the folio and the blog.

8. Remaining classes. From now until the end of semester, design studio will start in the PA317/318 classroom and then move to the workshop after the first hour. We need to see everyone briefly in the studio and then you will be free to continue prototyping.

Good luck with your prototypes,

Ian and Justin