Refined page layouts- Dorothy Draper

Description of Project Create a board game

For this project you will work in a group with 3-4. You are to choose a game to redesign, change the theme, or create a completely new game. In this new game include aspects of color theory, specifically color interaction and color unity. In your group you and your group members will work on different parts of the game, including the board, box, game pieces, instruction manual, and whatever else is needed to play the game. To decide on a color scheme for this project, research on color psychology or symbolism is needed to fit your target audience. 

Dorothy Draper

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I found this website contain useful information about my designer for the next project in BDS 102.

Summary of Project

So far, this project has been my favorite project all year. I liked this project because of the hands on activity that it involved and the planning that it needed. I also enjoyed learning how to work with wood and machines that I have never worked with before.  This project however didn’t turn out the way I planned it to. I realized that working with the band saw and straight lines is much harder than I anticipated and didn’t leave much room for error. In my original plan I wanted to use the drill press 5 1 inch holes onto the side of my box to show the color of each nail polish bottle without reveling what it was, but without thinking of how thin the wood on the sides of my box would be it snapped the boards. I still managed to get a unique and manageable look from the damage but it’s just not what I envisioned. I am satisfied with my box for my first time with working with these machines.

Orthogonal Photos of Final Box

David Pye Readings: The Nature and Design of Aesthetics

After reading this passage from The Nature and Design of Aesthetics, I realized how much we often do classify “cheaper” as “better”. We often try to get the most for our money to set put us ahead in the world. This reading also made me think of how everything around us is has practically been manipulated to fit our standards. Even the creation of the box I just made, the wood was manipulated from before I even handled it. Manipulation of natural elements has been happening for a very long time, it’s just a way to improvise life. Until the end of the reading the author had a negative tone. The way I look at the manipulation of materials is just customizing it so it can be used for more things, what could be wrong with that? Design like the author said at the end of the reading can create happiness through beautifying the environment. I can directly relate to that because of my passion and personal impact for interior design. 

Final Box Construction

Cardboard mock-up

Orthogonal Drawings

Preliminary models

Sketches & Mind map

OPI nail polish

Statement of Purpose

The object I have chosen to construct my box around is OPI nail polish. I choose OPI nail polish as my object(s) because of the lack of place for these bottles. The purpose is to give the nail polish bottles a place to be put and organized. I want to design my box with feminine attributes by using curves on the inside forming to the nail polish bottles but also having the outside be a basic rectangular form to look clean cut and organized. To make the box more interesting I have decided to put holes on the front and back of the box to show the viewer a small portion of color without giving away what the object is to make them curious as to what is inside. Along with the curves on the inside forming to the bottles I am going to put groves on the bottom to keep each individual bottle in place. My box will be able to contain five OPI nail polish bottles.

Description of Box Project

Choose an item that is important, or special to you in some way to create a box in which you will keep it in. Design your box to reflect the object's importance to you. You will create the box with one of the five woods the common shop offers. To construct the box you can use the band-saw, sander, or anything that is offered in the common shop of ku. You should try to keep the box size to a minimum and it must contain a lid.