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Critical Reflection
Why have we not found a replacement for single use plastic yet? We are not unknown to the fact that plastic waste is polluting our...
Anna
Apr 26, 20197 min read
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Last Week Before Hand-In
This week seemed to fly by. My main focus was on our hand in that the end of the week. For that we needed to upload our reflective blog...
Anna
Apr 26, 20192 min read
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Close To The End
This week has been very stressful! It started off great because the bamboo matts were delivered over the weekend, which meant that I was...
Anna
Apr 26, 20193 min read
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Slowly Getting There
I started off this week making more knife prototypes. I have a couple of knife blades left and that I have made several handles already I...
Anna
Apr 26, 20194 min read
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Video and Image Shooting Week
This week started off with my attempts of sanding down all my prototypes. While a textured grip might be great from a grip point of view...
Anna
Apr 6, 20192 min read
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Prototype Making
As mentioned in my previous blog post, we had to hand in our project information for the DJCAD catalogue and website. This included an...
Anna
Apr 6, 20193 min read
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Mark 2 Presentation
It has been roughly a month since our Mark 1 presentation. Today we had our last and final presentation before our hand-in. Again, we...
Anna
Apr 6, 20191 min read
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Handle Design
Last week I had established that I was going to make kitchen knife handles out of plastic. I knew that in order to get an organically...
Anna
Mar 20, 20194 min read
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Product Development
I started this week by melting plastic into the large moulds, that I had made last week. I am currently still deciding on what to do with...
Anna
Mar 13, 20193 min read
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Little Bit of Everything
This week I worked on several different things and did a bit of everything. To help with my decision on a colour combination, I cut and...
Anna
Mar 6, 20195 min read
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Colour Mixing!
I started my off this week with my Mark 1 Presentation. As you would have probably read in my last blog post, I found the presentation...
Anna
Feb 26, 20192 min read
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Mark 1 Presentation
For our honours project, we have two formal presentations before we hand in our projects: Mark 1 and Mark 2. These are basically used to...
Anna
Feb 24, 20192 min read
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Continuous Plastic Testing
Continuing from last week, the first thing I did during this week was look at how my first colour prototype turned out. I was very...
Anna
Feb 24, 20192 min read
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Changing Plans Again!
I started off Monday morning with my meeting with Polly. We started our meeting with me explaining my overall topic and the whole process...
Anna
Feb 11, 20193 min read
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Slowly Getting There
Carrying on from last week, I evaluated the range of sketches I made. Overall, I realised that the more provocative designs that include...
Anna
Feb 11, 20193 min read
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Start of the Last Semester!
I hope everyone had a lovely start to the new year! My New Year’s resolution was to productively and efficiently concentrate on important...
Anna
Jan 30, 20193 min read
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Interim Presentation
For the interim presentation this week, I talked about everything that I had done throughout this semester: I spoke about my research and...
Anna
Dec 12, 20181 min read
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Working On The Design
The first step after having defined that my product cannot produce toxins through melting the plastic, I had to figure out a...
Anna
Dec 12, 20182 min read
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Redefining Brief
One aspect that I could not stop thinking about was the fact that all my previous designs and ideas mostly relied on plastic being...
Anna
Dec 1, 20181 min read
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Back to Research
After all the interesting discussions from last week, I spent most of this week looking through that feedback, making a list of what I...
Anna
Nov 26, 20181 min read
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