Final Cutlery Design

Final designs ideas

These are my final design ideas for the cutlery for Heston Blumenthal's restaurant.

 

This fork has been designed to co inside with Heston's theme of stimulating the senses.

 

 

Here I was inspired to create a fork that had the handle style of the knife. This is visually stimulating and adds a new weird and wonderful way to enjoy dining at Heston's.

 

This spoon design shows the surface rendered with rough gold and smooth good. My reason for these colours and textures was to make it a visually beautiful object.

 

 

My final knife design comes from the simple curves that flow from the body of a "fat duck".

 I positiioned the blades at both sides to add a strange experience. The handle  can be wraou arounf around the back of the hand or can be held by the hand. This design will encourage users to use cutlery in a new way.

3DMAX TUTORIALS

My experiments with 3DMax tutorials.

Below is some of my finished tutorials using 3D max software. I found this difficult to grasp and I was unable to follow the tutorial to this extent during lecture. With persistence to learn I am now content that I have challenged myself to overcome my fears and begin to enjoy the experience of 3Dmax.

 

 

 

 

Rendered prototype

Rendered Prototype

Experimentation using photoshop to further the design idea.

I see this knife to made of brass, very smooth and with a little bit of weight but not too heavy as it would be hollow.

More sketch work

More Sketch work

As I want to explore the visual aspect of the cutlery I have began by looking at the shape of the cutlery. Here I have taking the shape from a duck ( taking form the name The Fat Duck Restaurant) and extracted the curve lines. This will be my basic shape for all my cutlery therefore linking them to the restaurant. Also considering the style of restaurant I want to make these look unusual and visually attractive.

Below is sketches of ideas that I have developed.

The curve lines of the duck created the shape.

The feather shape blades also linked to the duck.

Isometric exploding.

The fork keeps the shape and the handle.

Ducks feet.

The first basic sketches for a fork.

The fork head.

ISOMETRIC DRAWING AND DESIGNERS

EXPLODED ISOMETERIC PROJECTION

I have began to look into how I should design my cutlery. I found a site http://www.technologystudent.com which has nice examples to work from. It also explains interesting design processes.

The exploded isometeric projection is definately a way I want to design my cutlery as it will help me to understand how it connects and looks when broke apart. This is a way to show a design in 3 diminsions, a 30 degree angle is applied to the sides.

Hand Ergonomics

Hand Ergonomics

In the development of the cutlery's handle, I feel it would be of benefit to me to understand more about the hand measurements in men, woman and children. This research will enable me to sculpture the design so that the user can comfortably use the product.