Big Poster!

So to compliment my work for the university degree show (that I have kept hidden from you for now), I have done an A1 poster, showing my product in situ. 
I feared this could be difficult, however, I managed to find a way around this.


Now, usually people add in rendered images of products into a photo, but this can often come out looking odd due to the levels and the detailing of the photo compared to the rendered image. 
I couldn't do this as I (unfortunately) couldn't afford to go on holiday to take a photo to use - sad times!
So I managed to find an image on a stock photography website, which I bought...(it pains me to do that, but it was a necessary evil)


To overcome the badly placed rendered image scenario, I decided to create a comic like effect with the image and use Illustrator to create block colours around the different details in the image, a most laborious task I must say! 
Laborious but rewarding I believe! 


Take a look at a sneak peak of the work I will be showing at the degree show! :)


Enjoy!

A little bit of work on the side

Here is a bit of work that I have done recently for a company showing a concept for a kitchen design!


Being a perfectionist I would have liked to have refined it more, but it fulfilled the brief and the clients were happy! :)

The image is only small, but can be found in the photos section of this Facebook page:


http://www.facebook.com/MagnetKitchens

Workshop Time!

Hello!

This post has been postponed for about a month while I was finishing the work for my final submission on my final project! More important than blogging im sure you will agree.

So, I just thought I would show some of my work that I have been doing in the workshop to create a visual model for my degree show! :)

Enjoy! (Its fairly picture heavy so hopefully it will load ok!)

 A photo of my work on the CNC machine - a machine that I learnt to use during my time in the workshop. This meant I could use it myself instead of asking the technician all the time :) 

After the some of the parts were finished on the CNC machine I had to stick them together and use filler to fill any gaps. These were then sanded down.

 The table part of my model, the photo shows the filler drying and waiting to be sanded back.

The base part of my model had to be created out of layers of MDF, 22mm in this case. These layers were then stuck together to give the desired height.

This photo shows the parts being bridged by filler, as it was very difficult to get them to match by hand!

Me! Ready to get sanding (some more - hence the hood hair!). A very messy job indeed!

This was painful to do as I didn't want to make a mistake! Luckily I had some help from a friend.

And once it had been sanded again, and the gaps filled, I separated the layer that had been double sided so that I could vac form it, giving me the wall thickness, instead of a lump of MDF!

My first Vac Formed part! it went rather well, but that was the easy part, the processing after this was a huge pain, but had to be done.

All of the parts Vac Formed for the base section and taped together, not too bad a job if I do say so myself.

And, the base section stuck together and the gaps filled.

Mosre sanding, most of my time in the workshop was spent sanding! 

Unfortunately, I had run out of time to work on my model for the hand in, so I will be picking up the model making this week coming and will hopefully have some progress to show. 

In the mean time I will post some of my other work to keep you interested!

Thanks for looking!

Matt