grab ‘n’ go
Spring 2022
Timeline: 4 weeks
laser cutting + vacuum forming + Adobe Illustrator + woodworking
A tessellated tray system made of vacuum-formed parts and wood.
Grab ‘n’ Go is designed to hold a user’s daily out-the-door essentials.
CONSTRAINTS
The tray organizer and brush should nest together or next to each other and have a modular / tessellation symbiotic relationship.
Tessellation
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Containers are made of vacuum formed PETG.
Vacuum Forming
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One item (tray, tile, tool) should use wood as its primary material.
Wood Components
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Designed to fit into a workspace environment and be able to rest on the surfaces of that environment.
Environment
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Exploring circular patterns, trays for snacks and stationery, and cool stacking containers.
MOODBOARD
IDEATION
I chose to incorporate a circular tessellation and use wood as a tray component to hold these tessellations together. After creating Illustrator files for the shapes I wanted, I created the dimensions of the bucks I would need to create my vacuum-formed containers.
PROTOTYPING
Cutting pieces to appropriate height using a table saw.
Using the band saw to trim off large chunks of foam before sanding and creating initial draft angles.
Cutting pieces to appropriate Defining the final shape with the oscillating spinning sander and belt sander while keeping its draft angles by tilting the tabletop. using a table saw.
↳ Late nights in the studio = snacking + lots of gluing!
↳ Me vacuum forming the day after I sprained my ankle :(
↳The final bucks to accommodate various thicknesses and wiggle room between bins.
↳Laser-cut cardboard base tray prototypes with different widths.
↳The bins barely fit on the first tray prototype because the smaller the containers, the thicker the material will be after vacuum forming.
↳Paper and laser-cut prototypes to visualize tessellations and final shape.
Grab ‘n’ Go allows users to rearrange their trays to different patterns and elevations to organize their daily items.
