Brief Decided!

Here is the brief which I wrote myself by using the mbrela project brief as a guide line. It's based on 'Play' and 'Collectible toys'.

University of Lincoln

‘Play’ – Collectible Toys

Blog : Ongoing detailing of research and development for a ‘New type of collectible toy’ product.

Blog must encompass;

Design Ideas: A series of ongoing design thought strands that are appropriately communicated in a professional and realistic manner. The ideas should be both wide ranging and relevant.

Design Development: To develop a collection of products in concept form. These developments must be thorough and go as far as material choices and manufacturing techniques. This stage must include appropriate visualisation, graphic visuals, model work – sketch model, and prototypes.

PROJECT BRIEF/ OCTOBER 4, 2011

‘Play’ – Collectible Toys

Observe the collectible toy market and what toys are out there classed as ‘collectible’.

Analyse how collectible toys are designed and how they look on the market now. The type of style used in the design of the shape. The characteristics they bring to the environment they are placed in.

Propose scenarios to describe the life of the product created. What happens to the product after it serves its purpose? Construct narratives based on your observations and classifications to uncover and express the relationships between the product and user.

Create ‘collectible toy’ concepts in a way that a new line of toys could be created in the future. Can the product create a new look in the environment it’s placed in? Can this new line of toys start off a new trend?

Design a product or a series of products which could potentially work itself into the collective toy market. The designs should evoke thought and reactions about the word ‘Collectible’.

Objectives:

The objects are to use materials carefully, wisely, as though you will be questioned about every millimetre of thickness, or every second spent in manufacture. Additionally, the product(s) you design should leave less of an imprint on the environment during any point or all points of its lifecycle.

The product(s) designed should show an aesthetic appeal to its user and its surroundings as this should be a ‘show off’ product.

The objects must be able to be manufactured inexpensively to very high performance and visual standards. Your knowledge of how objects are made should be evident in your solutions.

Consider the packaging design of the product(s) designed as the product and packaging should act as one. The packaging should be a part of the collection.

 Recommended Constraints

Consider using one material, one process, one part.

Consider the size of the product, not too big that it doesn’t suit an environment but not too small that it goes unnoticed.

Consider the relationship the material has to the value of the product over its full lifecycle and to the end-of-life path.

Consider aesthetic value of the product and how this interacts with its user.

Consider the affect this product could have on the market and if it would be ‘accepted’ in the genre it’s going into.

Work produced

Design work and thoughts about the project will be documented on blogger.com. This should include any notes made, any quick sketches, and research over taken throughout the project. A notebook should also be produced for any ideas which need thorough research. Most of this notebook should also be documented on the blog.