Year 8 3D Design 100% Sheet

Key Words: Design Brief, Client Research, Plastic, Polymer, Acrylic, Target Market Profile, CAD/ CAM,, Oven Forming, Line Bending, Jig, Coping Saw, Vice, Polish, Hegner Saw, File, Apron, Goggles, Gloves, Oven, Laser cutter, 2D Design, Artist, Designer, Engrave, Cut, Vectorise.

AnnotationWhat is annotation? A note by way of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram.

What colour will you use?

What material will you use?

Why have you chosen the patterns and shapes you are using?

Where did you get your inspiration from?

Good/ bad points and possible improvements

Line bending is used to make simple bends in a sheet of thermoplastic polymer.

Laser cutting to cut and Engrave is a technology that uses a laser to cut/ engrave into materials including wood and plastic

Oven Forming is used to shape and manipulate plastic. Place acrylic into the oven and take out when flexible. You can use a jig to shape

A jig is used to make sure that parts are made exactly the same, without the need for marking out.

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media as well as commercial media and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts

Léa Stein is a French artist and accessories maker, known for her compressed plastic buttons, brooches and bracelets. She is often hailed as "the most notable and innovative designer of plastic jewellery of the 20th century

Tatty Devine is a brand name for a jewellery company based in the that have a number of stores in London and other locations that are stockists. Tatty Devine is owned by Rosie Wolfenden and Harriet Vine who started the company 1999. They make acrylic jewellery which is handmade in the UK. In 2013, Rosie Wolfenden and Harriet Vine were awarded MBEs for Services to the Fashion Industry.

Red Lines = Cut

Black Lines = Engrave

Open up 2D Design V2

Use internet explorer or chrome to access google. Search for an image (black and white line images work better) that you would like to use on 2D for your design and copy it and paste into 2D design

To create a vectorised image. Click BITMAPS, then select VECTORISE BITMAPS

Click on the image, Select Monochrome to simplify the image and then click OK.

Select your image again and Press Fill and select NO FILL from the menu.

To edit the vectorised image you need to EXPLODE it. Press EDIT, EXPLODE. Select EXPLODE FULLY.