Since my last post, I have refined my design significantly. Primarily, I translated Whirly Drop from a container with a wing into a single sheet design. To do this, I worked with Rhino to draw out a sharper design of a roughly made quick prototype out of cardboard. This process of drawing in Rhino resulted in the development of several approaches and variations of Whirly Drop as a single sheet design. Exploration of vents and obsession over generating spin from a drop were conducted. The final design was developed through further testing of each drawing. This would go onto reveal that with the constraints and evaluation methods enacted, a simple design was optimal. Removing the need for vents of any types, a single sheet of cardboard will protect an egg when utilizing the dimensions discovered from testing.
Attached to this post is an Adobe Illustrator file and image of the final template for users.
Whirly Drop was renamed to "Sheet." The name is a direct play at using a single sheet of cardboard to protect a raw egg from a 10' drop. The design is minimalist and simple, yielding successful outcomes at a high rate. The overall form is surprising, which became the focus of the project; how do you surprise a user in the simplest way?
During tests in the Industrial Design Workshop, undergraduate students engaged with me and shared their excitement for this design. Amongst reviewing the process of narrowing to the drawing used to laser cur Sheet, one student said that it was very impressive to see this worked. It really surprised the students that something so plain, arrived at through a regirous design process, could achieve the same outcome of a more dimensional, complicated, and laborious structure.
