Major Project I: Personal Adornment Guided by: Shimul Mehta Vyas Esther Brinkmann Submitted by: Nazuk Keshan LAD PG 11
Brief: To design an item of personal adornment (Bag). The bag should be an extension of the Jewellery range designed in Mini Project -I, following the same design sensitivity and language. Inspiration and research starting point would be looking at how Indians carry things, this will be used for form derivation. Define persona (user) of the prduct.
CLASSIQUE’
Below: Classique’ ; range of Jewllery designed in Mini project I
Mood Board
Visual Language
User Persona
Playful
Sophisticated
Avant-Garde
Unconventional
Fluid
Experimental
Understated
Spontaneous
Refined
Confident
Preity Zinta; celebrity persona
Sketches of people carrying things
Initial Sketches for Bag
Sketches for mock-ups
Mock-ups
Paper Mock-ups
Fabric Mock-ups
Final sketches
Things to carryphone money cards keys cosmetics
Evening Bag
Bag making process
Tracing Drawing of Bag onto thermocol for a mock up
Filing thermocol mock up refining the form
Thermocol mock ups, scaled down and to scale
Preparing MDF for a mould
MDF block for making the mould
Tracing of drawing for a replication
Chiseling out the voulme
Filing MDF mould
Sanding with a sand paper for refining the form
Creating a gap on mould
Vaccum forming in acrylic
Pouring water to cool
Taking out the formed acrylic and mould out of the machine
Taking the MDF mould out of the formed acrylic
Formed acrylic safely out of the mould
Cutting extra material from the formed acrylic
Cutting portions required out of the formed acrylic
Cut portions of acrylic to be used in the bag
Sanding to make the acrylic parts uniform
Soaking felt fabric for forming into water
Stretching soaked felt over the MDF mould
Nailing stretched felt onto the mould
Applying a layer of adhesive when the fabric is dry
Nailing the top fabric (grey felt) over the adhesive and wetting it from the top
Removing the nails with a plier
Removing the formed felt form the mould, both layers together
Drilling holes on the acrylic to be used for the upper portion
laser cut handles/bangles
Fixing Acrylic pipe to upper part of the bag
Buffing away scratches
Cutting pattern and fabric
Stitching Formed felt along with the felt base
Separating the two layers of felt with a cutter to enable stitching
Hand stitching felt and acryliv together
Hand stitching complete of one side of the bag
Sanding the push button for opening mechanism
Fixing the opening/closing mechanism
Stitching the other part of the acrylic to complete the bag
Fixing the handles/bangles inserted in the pipe