Class: Product Form
School: Savannah College of Art and Design
Year: Winter Quarter 2020
Purpose: Design an icebox, light, or fan using the design language of an Industrial Designer of choice.
Artist Chosen: YVES BEHAR, from Switzerland and found of fuseproject (same design language as TAVE project)
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MARKET RESEARCH
Prices range from 30 dollars to about 600 dollars depending on materials and brand.
Materials include: wood, metal, plastic, glass, rubber, leather
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MATERIALS
Materials chosen: Vinyl wood, Ice pack gel, Ripstop(Cordura), Blow Molded Plastic
These materials were chosen due to there ability to withstand cold environments and moist atmospheres, as well as, insulating cold temperatures
Ripstop (left) and IcePak (right)
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DESIGN LANGUAGE
YVES BEHAR uses patterned ridges, offsets, soft geometric forms.
RULES
Rules for the design language are used in each design concept during the ideation phase to create a uniform, repeatable design language throughout the entire project, mimicking the design language of YVES BEHAR
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SKETCHES
Exploring the form of an icebox in the design language of YVES BEHAR
HOW IT WORKS
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CAD
SolidWorks and Keyshot
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PAMPHLET
Pearl Horizons Morturary
Outside
Inside
Printed
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BUILDING
Appearance Model
Sketch Models
Pink foam form (top left), Template for side curves (bottom left), Vacuum formed mold (bottom right)
Lid grooves (upper right), Attempt analysis (bottom left), Adjustment of vacuum formed grooves (bottom right)
Vinyl wrapping (far left), Spackle filling gaps in vinyl (second from left), Hand painting over spackled edges (second from right)
Cutway view with vinyl on top (bottom left), Cutway view with ripstop on top and icepak in the center (bottom right)
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FINISHED
