This fun mini project is where you take an everyday product, analyse what makes the product work/practical, redesign that product so that is dysfunctional or impractical.

4 important activities are in this unit. 

• Critical thinking – analysing a product.
• Creative thinking – generating ideas. 
• Generation of ideas.
• CAD – becoming a expert – Sensei of ‘Fusion’!
• Modelling techniques – CAD and 3D printing.

Study the products below – Why wouldn’t that work? What is the true function of the product?

Have a browse through the below websites to get an idea of what you will do.

• Katerinina Kamrani article on 3D For Designers website.
• The Uncomfortable from Katerina Kamprani.
• Impractical footwear from Dezeen.
• Erratum on Dezeen
• Prank Furntiure on Design Boom.
• Impractical Cutlery.

The Task

• Find a common everyday product.
  • Take a photo (later you will make a poster with it).
• Deconstruct the product and work out what the practical  functions are.
  • Make a list of the practical functions on the Padlet as well in a document (later you will make a poster with it).
  • Make a list of how you will design impracticality on the same Padlet (later you will make a poster with it).
• Sketch 10 to 12 napkin sketches.
• In a CAD program (we use Fusion) develop your prototype.
  • Including, rendering and lighting (Photorealistic image).
• 3D print a model.
• Make you poster.
• Get ready for a presentation.