CHAD

Mentorship Notes 1

(with Morgan Street)

Multitool for bottles+cans. Inspired by soda bottle (crimped metal style). Materials: mostly metal, maybe plastic and/or wood too. Never made something like this before, will probably need some material delivery, brainstorming on how to make this at home (Mitchell?) By end of 6 weeks have the object and have tried it out. Might be into making several if the first one works (but not a priority, he’s into having it be special and unique). Going to do some drawings and research for tomorrow.

Mentorship Notes 2

(with Rudie and Mitchell)

Rudie and Chad discussed a method for a digital production of a can opener. Vector files could be sent to a laser-cutting service, produced, and sent back via mail.

Chad is interested in a more hands-on approach, using tools and materials to produce his design. Some of his criteria for a good design of a can opener include: it has curves, is believable and uses a hook of some sort. He is imagining creating a tool/opener roughly the size of a screwdriver.

Chad has past experience with metal when soldering to make a boombox at Beam Center.

Chads challenge for this week is in finding examples of bottle-openers (images) to draw inspiration from.

Mentorship Notes 3

(with Morgan)

Next steps:
- Draw a few designs on paper first (Chad's drawn to flat-style models)
- Pick a couple to cut out of plywood (prototypes)
- Do some R+D, show prototypes to others, ‘mime’ opening bottles to see how they feel
- Practice cutting metal
- cut a prototype out of metal

We talked about the possibility of adding bevels (for function and/or aesthetics), may want to use a FILE later on, but working with flat metal first to dial in the design.