The final day of 3DCP was my favourite of the year so far because it was hands on and involved working in teams. The task was we had to create a bridge between 2 table hight enough to go over a table on its side using bamboo sticks, cardboard and elastic bands. We were also only allowed to have to point toughing the floor other than the tables.

My group got straight too work gearating ideas and decided that were were going too create a self sustaing structure that would use suspention.

We began my creating a bamboo frame and splitting it into cardboard brackets in the table. We then created the main bridge section of which we then hung buy elastic bands using suspension too hold the shape and take the  weight of the car that would later test it.

While we had a few issue with the suspension meaning our bridge was a bit bendy it did work in our favour making our bridge unique too the other groups.

This has been my favourite talks so far as i really enjoyed thinking visually and creating a product with a purpose and working with a team too work on individual elements.

The main thing that we worked on on the second day of 3DCP was we had to design and make a structure that could hold up 3 plastic balls from spaghetti and a hot glue gun.

These were my intitial sketches:

We were then asked to draw someone on our table with one line without looking at them as well as drawing a random doodle too force us too start looking outside the box for ways too hold the balls.

From these initial drawing i decided to prioritise form over function and too focus on and idea that did not necessarily have to haolf all 3 balls. This is why i desided to go for a design where i just glued an much of spagetti together and then snaped bits of to make it stand us to the strands at the top could hold a ball.

If i’m honest pretty happy with the design and think that i have thought outside the box and tried something different and while it might not carry out the initial function i think the form of the object is nice.

After a talk about the pathways we were asked to write down birthday present that we had received on an A1 sheet of paper and display this in a visually interesting way. Initially i found this hard as i was too self critical however i eventually just decided too get on with it and and started experimenting and eventually i was happy with the final outcome.

Once we had completed this we were then asked to start cutting it up to create i hanging piece and to remove the white, initially this came as a shock because of the effort that some people had put in. I desired that i would create a spiral style shape by cutting around the letter of which i then hung up. One it was hung up i was then able to see more sections of white and easily cut them out allowing me the have a purely colourful shape hanging.

One we had created and photographed our own work we were then asked to connect them to other people in our group and then eventually too the big centre piece in the middle of the class that contained everyones work.

I thought that the final outcome of these task was amazing, the work is visually appealing and couples with the light as well as the dark it creates a thoughtful image.