Product Design – Vector Art (Flat Pack Characters) @ SuperComputerCenter UCSD Extension K-12 College Exploration Winter 2011

  • Posted On February 26, 2011
  • BY Natalie

bloggin’ away.

Again. The Basics: Natalie D. SDHS 15, going on 16 soon enough Today’s efforts: Made a vector(HD and re-sizable, instead of a pixelated Raster) of different things and learned how to use Adobe Illustrator for the first time (I personally prefer to u...

  • Posted On February 26, 2011
  • BY Griffin

First Day Of Product Design

Griffin McComb 13 years old Rancho Santa Fe School Today I learned how to use Adobe Illustrator  and Platonic shapes, like the Platonic tetrahedron, which I built in class today. I converted it into a 3D shape from a lat shape using a net box. It was lai...

  • Posted On February 26, 2011
  • BY Sabina

Day 1: Fab Lab

Name: Sabina Hahn  Grade: 8  School: Coastal Academy Today we learned how to use Adobe Illustrator and we learned about Platonic solids.  We also made a Flat Pack Character and a Platonic Solid.  The Platonic Solid I made was a Dodecahedron.  It has ...

Day 1 Fab Lab

Andrew Preecha Senior Mt. Carmel High Today I chose to build a dodecahedron as my platonic solid. My dodecahedron had 12 faces and 20 vertices. To convert the flat shape of the dodecahedron into a 3D one, I basically took the flat template and folded it i...

Day 1 at the Fab Lab

Katie Buss, 8th Grade: Coastal Academy. Today we learned about transforming a 2D template into a 3D object. We applied this skill to make characters on paper that fold up into 3-dimensional figures. To start out, we first learned about Platonic solids. E...

  • Posted On February 26, 2011
  • BY Paul

Product Design First Day

My name is Paul. I’m a ninth grader at University City High School.  I’m 14 years old. I made the icosahedron and the tetrahedron by folding them out of paper and then taping the joints. The icosahedron has 20 faces and 12 vertices. I learned...

  • Posted On February 26, 2011
  • BY Sarah

Day 1 product design

Sarah Cho/14/Coastal Academy Today we learned about 5 main shapes called the Platonic solids.  Then, we cut out some patterns out of a paper and made a couple of the shapes.  This was to show us how to build 3D shapes out of a flat pattern.  From...

  • Posted On February 26, 2011
  • BY Sajan

Product Design blog #1 Sajan Sanghvi

Sajan Sanghvi/11th Grade/Canyon Crest Academy Today was the first day of Product Design. First we were shown many different and objects that can be changed from 2d to 3d and also several sculptures that were built from a large machine, yet designed from ...

  • Posted On February 26, 2011
  • BY Jacob

Jacob’s blog: post #1

Name: Jacob Daniels Age: 13 years School: Rancho Del Rey Middle The platonic solid I chose to build today was an octahedron it has eight faces and six vertices . i converted the flat pattern into a third dimensional by first folding it then taping the top...

  • Posted On March 5, 2011
  • BY Paul

Product Design Day 2

Today I make the vinyl decals for my flat pack character. To make it, I first had to come up with an idea for how it should look. Then, I created the design with Adobe Illustrator. Then it was sent to the Roland CAMM1 vinyl plotter, which is a CNC machine...

fab lab product design day2

Today I made a little figure of a guy in a hazmat suit using mostly adobe illustrator. From Illustrator I printed the designs out on Mylar and vinyl. The machine that allowed me to do this was the Roland CAMM1 vinyl plotter which basically cuts designs in...

  • Posted On March 5, 2011
  • BY Sarah

Day 2 at product design fab lab

Today we are finishing up our flat pack characters!  They are turning out really nice.  We learned how to use the plotter, and we are cutting up some material on the plotter and we are going to stick those on our characters!  While we where making them...

  • Posted On March 5, 2011
  • BY Natalie

Another thrilling post.

What did I make today? I made a custom flatpack character. How did I make it and with what? By plugging a design into a template using Illustrator and the magic of printer, as well as creativity In order to accomplish such a feat I employed the usage of 2...

Day 2 at the FabLab

Today we continued making our flat-pack characters, using the Roland CAMM1 vinyl plotter to make a rough draft of our final work. We used Adobe Illustrator CS2 to continue our vector editing and finalize our [animals, monsters, etc.]. In Adobe Illustrator...

  • Posted On March 5, 2011
  • BY Jacob

Jacob’s blog: post #2

Today I’ve made a fold-able character by using illustrator to draw pictures onto a template and the CNC machine: Roland CAMM1 vinyl plotter to cut the vinyl and use mylar to place everything on, to do something like this I had to think in three dime...

  • Posted On March 5, 2011
  • BY Sajan

Day #2 Product Design blog

Sajan Sanghvi/Canyon Crest Academy/ 10th grade Today I made a 3-d one-eyed monster by finalizing the draft in Adobe Illustrator and printing it and attaching the printed version to the mylar. All the technology used was Adobe Illustrator and Roland CAMM1 ...

  • Posted On March 19, 2011
  • BY Natalie

Final day blues.

Its  the final day of class. CPR training made me miss most of it. But, I still got productive things done. Made some stickers on illustrator and converted it to vinyl cut outs. (Gasmask, cat, etc.) Did another flat pack character. (For my buddy Kenzy) s...

  • Posted On March 19, 2011
  • BY Sajan

product desgin blog #3 Sajan Sanghvi

Sajan Sanghvi/10th grade/Canyon Crest Academy Today was the last day of Fablab. It was very exciting because we were able to show our prior knowledge and use the skills we learned to make stickers and flat pack characters all in one day. I made a final fl...

Product design day 3

Andrew Preecha 12th grade Mt. Carmel High Today I finished up my project from last time, which was a flatpack character in a hazmat suit, and in addition, built a second one. Again these were made using illustrator to plot out the outlines, and cut using ...

  • Posted On March 19, 2011
  • BY Sabina

Last Day

Today we finished our flat pack characters.  What we had to do was design our character on Adobe Illustrator, then print it on vinyl and paper.  After that we folded it into a 3D character.  We also made personalized stickers and cut them out of vinyl....

  • Posted On March 19, 2011
  • BY Jacob

Jacob’ blog: final post

Today I have finished making the flat-pack character that we started on the first day that was on illustrator as a 2 dimensional image that was then printed on to paper then on the Roland vinyl plotter we cut out Mylar; a thick plastic and vinyl: an indus...

  • Posted On March 19, 2011
  • BY Paul

Last Day of Product Design

Today everything came together as we finalized our flatpack character designs. We also had a chance to have fun with the vector editing and making our own stickers. One of the main goals of the class was to design and make a personalized character that wo...

  • Posted On March 19, 2011
  • BY Sarah

day three

So today we made our final flat packed characters!  They look awesome.  I made a penguin.  I had the main body of my penguin out of black paper, and then the front of it is made of white vinyl and it has black outlining and yellow feet and a yellow bea...

Day 3at the FabLab

Today we finished our flat-pack characters using, you guessed it! Adobe Illustrator, a vector editing program. We translated our characters into the vinyl plotter machine, and it printed part of our characters in vinyl. My owl is complete and I am really ...