Papercraft Objects: First Phase Prototypes

For this assignment, I had to take my best design from my previous idea- generating assignment and create a prototype of what my final assignment will be. Because this assignment ended up being my lesson in extra planning and learning from failures, I feel confident going into the next phase of this assignment.

When I created this tube of lipstick in the first place, it looked big. I felt like the design looked more like a trophy than a tube of lipstick, so I decided to run with the idea. My first order or business was to find a beautiful, shiny paper to build my final project out of. I decided on this holographic paper to give my project an extra punch. I also decided to use some lavender card stock as a plan B in case all of my pieces didn't fit of the holographic paper.

  

I knew that printing a 24"x24" diagram on 4 pieces of 12 x 12 paper wasn't going to give me the big trophy that I was looking for, so I started thinking. I realized that I could bet more size to work with if I took all of the pieces apart and tried to fit them onto one sheet (which I, for some reason, decided to do by hand). 

 

It was about around here that I realized this step was only confirming what I already knew, that squishing pieces of this figure together would save space.

So I decided to look at my original diagram and do some measurements and figure out which pieces took up the most space

So, now that I knew that the sides of the octagonal prism would be my longest pieces, I knew that they had to be my benchmark,since there's not way I could split them between 2 sheets of paper. I made the sides of the prism about 11" long, while keeping the rest of the measurements relative, and decided to work from there.

Here, I decided to switch up my plan of attack, because I realized that if something goes wrong and I have to use my backup paper, the design will look a lot nicer if I have the top and bottom a different colour than the sides, rather than each side a different colour. I decided to fix my blue print so it would fold up lengthwise. 

I plotted the pieces on 4 12 x 12 sheets of paper, like the ones I would be printing on, with accurate dimentions so I knew exactly what I would be working with

All of this being said, the original blueprint has not been abandoned. The form is successful, the tabs were placed well -after a mishap I have also pictured- and all in all I feel like I have a solid option for how I will tackle this final project (my other option being the "lengthwise blueprint")

Right now, my plan is to print the blueprint on normal sheets of 8.5"x 11" paper and cut out the blue prints from the holographic paper while using the prints from the printer paper as a template. I have tested the gluestick on the holographic paper and although it doesn't work as well as I had hoped, I have a hobby-super-glue that I will be using with an old paintbrush