Lville Design

Lville Design

Design Rubric

Petra

Desktop Design Project:

Questions: I chose to design a desktop for my roommate, Chelsea because she keeps a lot of school things on her desk and it sometimes looks messy. She said that it is difficult to find most of her stationary and papers or notebooks right now, but there is space to store these elsewhere.

Questions;

  • What do you keep on your desk? – Notebooks, stationary, books, makeup and other smaller “stuff”
  • How would a desktop organizer help you? – it would definitely help me be more focused on my school work and my room would look more clean.
  • Do you have any preferences ? – Honestly, I don’t know. It should be very big and take a lot of space, I would put it onto the right side of my desk. I just want to find everything easily and organize my school work more effectively.

1; Ideas for the desktop organizer and design inspiration

This is the first organizer I found that I could use as an inspiration for the project, she could find all her smaller stuff easily, especially her stationary.
After the interview and class discussion to identify the main points and problems for the project, I started to do some research on the internet for “desktop organizers”. Because Chelsea keeps a various of stuff and school material on her desk, her organizer has to be able to separate and hold different items of different sizes.

Next step: Finalizing design for desktop organizer;

First ideas drawn on paper

Thinking my design ideas through, I decided to combine different size of boxes and materials, so that different sized items can be stored in them. The bottom two holders will be the size of an A4 paper to store paper and thinner folders for school. On top of that I added smaller containers for the stationary, phone, smaller items.

I thought of creating a three layered organizer. The bottom container would be the size of an A4 sheet and on top of that there would be four smaller and different sized box containers and organizers for the stationary.

Final design and idea;

The picture above shows my final design idea for the desktop organizer. After reviewing my drawings, I have come to the conclusion that I can create a holder for both notebooks and smaller stuff with the Rhino software. The first three smaller boxes will be in the front and the bigger container will hold notebooks and paper. This organizer will take up less space on her desk but will still be able tot hold the same amount of stationary and school supplies.

Next step: As the next step, I start to work on my design idea on the Rhino 3D software. To lay out the format for my design, I created 8 “layers”. For each, I extruded the design by 0.22 inches, as that will be the thickness of the final wood material I will use to print my organizer.

First plate: This is the front of the organizer I created on the Rhino software. The dimensions for the three parts are different because the boxes that will hold stationary and notecards will differ in size. I added joints to both sides and to the bottom side to make sure that the plate will hold still.
As the next step, using mostly: trim, mirror, polyline and extrude commands, I designed the sides and the back side of my organizer. It was very important to keep a track of the dimensions of each side, as when I first tried to put the sides together I ran into the error of not considering the change of size of each side when extruding them.

Next step: Extruding and moving the pieces to its right places

As the next step after creating the 8 pieces of with an offset of 0.22 inches, and joints that will fit exactly together when rented out in 3D shape, I extruded all pieces by 0.22 inches and used the arrows that appear as I click onto them to rotate all extruded pieces by 90 degrees to see them in stand-up position. After that I used the move command to put all extruded and rotated pieces together in the perspective view.

The screenshot shows the extruded version of the design draft after I rotated most sides and moved them into position.

Commands and moving/rotating options I used to move the pieces into its 3D shape

Final step: After sending my design to the laser printer, I used tape and special glue for wood to put all pieces together. All of the pieces fit together perfectly, so my design was successful.

This is my final design for my friend’s desktop.

Step 1: Research

I did some research on Frank Wright luminaire and window designs for ideas. As the first step for the project I looked at multiple luminary and window designs from Wright. I think that his window designs follow a similar pattern as the designs for lamps and luminaries.


I chose to use 3D shaped squares and intersecting lines as my first design ideas
The overlapping when I tried to create my design using the rhino software caused some problems to be able to create positive and negative spaces.
Change in design. After reviewing my design ideas, I chose to change my design sketch my using circles and lines to later create positive and negative spaces successfully. I have chosen to make a more complex design which I think looks better and shows my skills using Rhino software better. I prepared to use the circle and polyline commands which I later offseted on the design software.

Creating the design using Rhinoceros software on Mac

Using circle and polylines , I needed to use the offset, group and trim commands to create a design similar to my design sketches on paper. This is the 2d top view.

In the perspective form, my four sizes fit together. In the extruded model for my unitary I needed to offset the outside lines a bit more. The 3D model shows the negative and positive spaces, the laser cutter will cut out first from paper and then from wooden templates.

Practice print with the laser cutter to see the design in printed form.
After opening up the Rhino files on the computer and scaling the laser to cut from wood, I was able to put together my final luminary. The glue for the wood is still not dry on this picture, so I used the blue tape to hold the sides together.

Next;

knowing that the laser cut with paper was successful, I went on printing out my luminary with wood. After I had my 4 sides cut out, I used special glue for wood to stick the white paper back piece for each side . I waited approximately 20 minutes for the glue to dry and then I attached all four pieces together into the 3D shape. To hold the luminary together, I used the blue tape.

Creating the light holder:

During the waiting time for the glue to dry, I printed my 3D shape light holder. I took around 50 minutes.

As my final step, I used tape and special glue for wood to put all piece