{04/09/2012

Here is a reminder of the expectations for the next assignment, as we discussed in class.

Design a three piece family of cutlery or serving utensils. Your design must satisfy the following requirements:

• the three designs in your family must share a consistent form language. wherever possible, reuse or modify geometry from one piece to the next (the handle, for example)
• at least one of the pieces in your family must be a spoon
• carefully consider the contextual and utilitarian aspects of your typology, as well as your intended user. How do these factors affect your aesthetic decisions?

For Tuesday (April 9), you should begin working on concepts for your design so that in class we can discuss your intentions and you can begin working. This work can be in any form (sketches, drawings, models, preliminary CAD models), but should be at a high enough resolutions to facilitate productive discussion and should provide clear, actionable direction for your next steps (not tiny doodles). The next phase of this project will be to model and render your family of objects. We will also realize at least one of them in full scale, with rapid prototyping (we will discuss this technology further).

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If you are (attempting) to work on the computers in the Furniture Computer Lab and you get a message that says “No Sim found” when you launch MasterCAM, it’s an annoying but easy to fix problem. For these two licenses of MasterCAM, a USB “sim” (or dongle, hardware key, etc) is required for the software to work. If you look behind the iMac, you will see a black lock box with a USB cable running out of it – you just need to make sure that this USB cable is fully inserted into one of the USB portse for it recognize the “sim”.  After you’ve made sure it’s fully inserted, try launching MasterCAM again.

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