J10 The COLEMAN Project

Team

 Six

 Members: 

Anthony

John

Karyn

Matt

Nina

Xia

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The group project was awesome.  I thought the challenging assignment was interesting in that it allowed for such a broad variety of solutions.  Each team did a unique product solution for integrating Coleman for the home.  Our group did storage and noticed the storage was becoming a trend.  We saw that in the second day of presentations, more diversely separate product ideas were brought to life.
I noticed that within our own group, everyone worked very well together and listened to one another respectfully.  Everyone got to voice their opinion on each debate.  Everyone has an original idea somewhere in our design.  My contribution to the the group and the product development was based on the visual aspect.  When we decided on which final product to design I started sketching what I could best interpret from what the group was describing.  From this point I took it upon my self to download and learn how to use Google SketchUp.  The program seemed to come naturally for me and I really enjoyed displaying all the awesome ideas our group had for the product. I wish that I had time enough for a more advanced 3d rendering program, but I ended up focusing on fine tuning what I had already created in SketchUp.  I really enjoyed this project and equally enjoyed working with the group I was part of.

Course Reflection

Design 200 was unlike any class I've had before.  I learned a great deal, and had a lot of fun.  The group work was fun, and pretty cool actually.  I have always had an interest in design but I had never seen it like this. The Design 200 class has inspired me to add Design as a minor to my degree.  It is exciting to realize you have hit the point of college that you are actually enjoying the classes, where you are actually upset when missing a class because you were really interested in the lecture for once.  I am glad to have taken the course and look forward to seeing where I will take all this.

Coleman For The Home

Team SIX: 

Anthony

John

Karyn

Matt

Nina

Xia

Our team experience has been a great one. We worked very diligently and had most of the project done by week two or so.  Day one was spent with various ideas thrown around, but once the cabinet idea was brought to light, we ran with it.  That running did not stop until late yesterday, we have spent the week tweaking.  Organization wise, everyone has easily been on the same page the entire time due to the email feed we started with all our email addresses by selecting "reply-all" each time someone posted.  We also met once outside of class at Starbucks to get a handle on the whole project put together before having to present Monday.

My contributions have been mainly 3D rendering, but I also had a hand in the brainstorming sessions.  I personally put in hours upon hours each week nit picking my renderings and getting the details done correctly.  I now have a slight obsession with 3D rendering and have now picked it up as my latest hobby.  But back to the project, I created the visuals of the cabinet as a whole, and then took screenshots from each angle for the presentation.

My 3D drawings: