Kristian Petrov

This project is my first fully digital project; I dusted off the old drawing tablet which I never really liked because it didn’t have the pen to paper connection that a more traditional style of sketching has. Though I felt it was something I needed to at least try.

One thing we as designers should always keep at the back of our minds is how you’ll manufacture your design and how each method works with its respected expenses. the manufacturing processes never really entered my head before starting college. Even when we were tough on all the manufacturing processes in our “Manufacturing Tech” module it never really stuck. Whilst I found the processes interesting and found the theory easy to understand and reproduce on a test, I never found myself thinking much about it when I was designing my other projects.

A valuable and fun experience I had would defiantly have to be when a designer by the name of Peter Sheehan came in and shared his passion In furniture whilst giving us some insights on how his tough process and mindscape works when trying to make ideas for his designs.

When it came to my physical prototypes, I found that it was always one of my strong suits. I found a lot of comfort in expressing my ideas though physical form. Though it was always through a medium of cardboard. The course allowed me to use foam for me for my prototypes which was something very new to me, but I never found myself exploring the different materials.

This would be my all-time project; it’s an older one but the collection of sketching and prototyping made for a wonderful ideation and development process. This build-up of ideas and use of physical models allowed for a prototype that I would say is one of my best. The use of the skills I built up over the 1st year truly mended together into an enjoyable final year project. For me this was a showcase of what’s to come in the following years in collage and even past that.