Dinosaur Dolan Designs

  Here we are at the end of the semester Winter 2021, considering our last class of OBDF 110a and our futures. We came together in this class for a multitude of reasons, and are leaving with an even greater number of skills and solutions. Let's look back over the semester as it pertained to me and my projects.  1) The Objectified Response I was aware that there was a large breadth of design processes, individualized to people and companies but I'm not sure I was ready to have so many downloaded into my brain at once. Regardless I sifted through the various approaches until I found one that gelled with me. Then I applied that to a problem in my own home to design a solution that I still think is very elegant for someone with no experience in CAD and very little experience in 3d design.  The largest challenge here was getting TOO much help from my partner who was very interested in my homework and kept trying to solve the design problems for me. We solve things very differently a

  As the semester draws to an end, we found ourselves putting into practice some of the earliest things we learned - remix culture and the mashup. Friends, I have made SO MANY vases.  Initially, Kyle and I were assigned to work together - we selected our favourite three vases to share with each other - this allowed us to get a sense of repeated or favoured elements. We talked about form, function, printability and the need for self-support. Using a max of 2 perimeters ruled out some of the concepts that spun out of our conversation. It became clear that we had very different approaches - but that we were committed to being adaptable and considerate. Kyle had created some interesting, more complex and somewhat abstract shapes, where I had come from a place of function first, but we were willing to meet in the middle and agreed to incorporate functionality and the silhouette I had designed into a product constructed from Kyle's forms. We both liked twist and taper, and agreed to incl