I, Raymond, never considered myself as much of a responsible person. Especially considering my long record dealing with either my lunch card or its holder. I’ve constantly found myself coming to school in the morning with a lunch card in hand but by the time I leave in the afternoon, I leave empty handed. It may be because I am always fidgeting with it, breaking the holder apart, taking the lunch card out, then assembling the whole thing back together. Many times, this results in me leaving my card behind somewhere.  Recently, this got worse when I “accidentally” broke my original holder, I had to hold my card in my hand everywhere now. Therefore, I decided to make myself an unique, personalized card holder for this unit in design. A card holder where I could just come to school, and never need to think about it until lunch, where it will always be in the same place.

This was my project planner, It includes a less detailed version of the text above and my first visions of what the card holder would’ve looked like. I wanted to go for an ArtDeco styled cardholder. I first learnt about ArtDeco from last year’s design class, where we went through several different design aesthetics. I found the aesthetic very interesting and intriguing. I loved the use of lines and repetition to create a look that was artistic and also seemed very posh. However, at the time, I didn’t feel the appropriate need to incorporate the aesthetic into my own project. I’ve always longed for a chance to try and design something ArtDeco-like. I intend to display my growth in the use of Fusion through an intricate Art Deco design that incorporates lots of curves, offsets, symmetry, and repetition while also making sure that it is stable and will not be easily broken.

Considering the size of my card, the holder will not be much bigger. I made the decision that traditional fingers will not be the best idea when a lot of my faces don’t exceed the width of 10mm. Instead, I decided to use the “Butt Joint”  where I use the fact that the wood has its thickness and to subtract the amount from the perpendicular face and so on. Therefore, when one face gets subtracted on one side, it will grow the same amount on the corresponding side, which will cause the perpendicular face on the corresponding side to do the same.

That is a picture of my initial paper prototype. I found that the ring for the lanyard hook to hook on wasn’t placed in the best place. Being on the top corner of the holder will cause the entire thing to be lopsided and look awkward. The design on the card was also not what I wanted, it resembled more of something like a spiderman suit rather than an art deco pattern. I will definitely work on that in my cardboard prototype.

That was my very first cardboard design, I was very glad and amazed by how well the pattern turned out. It was surely more stable than I had expected! However, there was a big problem, my card wasn’t able to fit. The opening was not long enough.

This was my refined cardboard design. I had solved the issues in my previous cardboard design. My ID card now fitted perfectly inside my cardboard holder. However, I forgot to incorporate the ring, which was an essential part of my design.

There it is! My final cardboard design. I decided to paint it black, the wood texture to me didn’t give off the posh style I was going for. I’ve tested my card in it and it has worked perfectly fine.