Wednesday the 15th January 2014

Yesterday I had finished with my first design and had to move on to my second design today. For the first ten minutes I was thinking of an idea for my second design until I remembered one of the fruit racks I had seen in IKEA London. Immediately I took a scrap paper and drew sketches of my second design. When I was confident with my sketch I started drawing on the A3 paper. When I was halfway with my design I realized I was going wrong since the angle I had been drawing the rack from was not correct. Therefore I had to do a rough design again and double checked it and then went back to drawing the final design. This was a very challenging design since it was very unique one as it would have 3 cylindrical compartments. It is not only difficult to make but was also hard to draw. I made a couple of mistakes though I rectified them. I also got frustrated at some moments when the design didn't look like how i wanted it to be, and felt like just crumbling and throwing the paper away. However, at the end of the lesson I looked at my design and was very impressed with the design I had done and gave me confident that I am capable of drawing and designing which I thought I was horrible in. I also took some time finding appropriate and valid measurements for this rack since it was unique and different than the others. This lesson I developed my creativity skills, artistic and sketching skills and open minded skills and also tried to bring more originality in my work. Next lesson, I would like to label my designs and probably also test and would like to improve on my intrapersonal skills since I often get distracted by my peers therefore I have to focus on my work more and try to work individually.