Process
The Design Process and how I got here.
After exploration of both my concept and my theme, the process of creating design ideas then came with a few lumps and bumps in the road, but things slowly started to develop. below are just a few scamps of how and the way in which I originally planned to take my first piece.
Figure 1 design development.
I then took it to CAD to see if this could work. I stumbled across a few technical and aesthetic problems but explored it further in my portfolio.
Figure 2 design development.
Figure 3 Further exploration.
The Manufacturing Process
Once I had my CAD completed it was easy to do an exploded technical drawing of each individual component.
In the figures below you see that for the pierced parts I had just placed the CAD drawing on top of the plate using double sided tape and then proceeded to drill and pierce them accordingly.
Figure 4 five individual components.
Figure 5 Single pierced plate. Figure 6 Stacked flat pierced plates.
After concluding that this design was too flat or 2D, further alterations were made to the design in order to volumize this ring, however still keeping it as a stack ring.
Figure 7 separated stacked ring. Figure 8 Stacked flat ring.
The process is yet far from over, a lot still has to be done.
