TOY DESIGN: PLAY & ACT OF PLAY
EMPATHY
From the knowledge i gained from previous assignments, i put all my ideas on the scope of assignment. While doing this task, I questioned myself regarding the era of play by kids like What is play?, Types of play before and now, Why play things like that
The body part assigned to me was wrist & hand. I did few research on activities that done by the body part and movement. I visualized my ideas on the movements and characteristics of a hand. From there i expand my own toy idea .
DEFINE
Here i stated all my initial ideas from my empathy in terms of the movement, characteristics and functions.
In my define page, I stated all the materials that is needed to create my toy. I went through all the potential material from my house and I also purchase some from DIY store.
I further elaborated the type of play for each of initial ideas, I did mentioned their functions and age prefer for the toy.
IDEATION
My first ideation was the Robotic hand with few steps and the materials needed. This toy looks normal in fact more ideas like this toy was taken by many individuals.
My second ideation the Sharp Bells hand claws and the materials needed. This toy acts as a musical instrument and the same time it acts a fun play for kids.
My third ideation was the Long legger represent the long spider's leg . I got this idea from my empathy and I further explained it in my define. This toy acts as a weapon and more activities can be done. Its a combination of fun & imaginative play
PROTOTYPE
And the making process starts... I choose the long- legger because i felt its pretty interesting with more creativity. I was not a big task for me to make the toy as I prepared the materials and explored the steps in my ideation stage .
I split each of the toy part so i can focus more separately without messing with other task. From the first prototype, make the most important and pretty hard task which is the cutting and sticking each cardboards to form a leg shape. Later on, I jumped to make the spider claws by compressing paper , pot , and tape together to form a fine sharp look.
I also used the spray paint to give a vibrant look to my toy. I covered the middle layer with sliver wrap paper so that it gives a aesthetic spider look. To concluded the making process of my long legger, i added the black ribbon strips to give more appealing look of spider to it.
FINAL WORK
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DISIPLINE SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE
This assignment helped me to apply the main design process that i have learned in my semester which is empathy, define, ideation and prototype. I gain the knowlege of ideation concept of reasoning and questioning. I made sure that all my ideas eventually maches my toy in the end
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THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
I shaperned my creative and critical thinking skills, I literally used my creativity to create the entire slide using different visual, whereas my critical thinking were tested when i needed to solve my difficulties to make the toy. I also needed to understand certain type of material that is only suitable to my toy
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INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
A great thanks to my tutor Mr,paul . my lecture helped on time when im having doubts . His feedbacks and advise really uplift my assignment to a final level. I corrected my mistakes and learned a lot from him.