Papercraft Designs: Final Form

Papercraft Designs: Final Form

Today I realized I can't stand papercraft.

That point aside, I think I did relatively well on my papercraft final project, which was the completed version of my root beer bottle.

Here it is now.

The Design is based off, again, the old root beer bottles of the 90's, although I also used designs from the present A&W root beer bottle. This is because although the teacher recommended I pull inspiration from the older root beer bottles to trigger a sense of nostalgia, I also wanted to bring, in a sense, my own source of nostalgia into the picture, being as the present A&W root beer bottle was the first and only bottle I've ever lived with.

 The most annoying part of the project, (other than me crashing on two hours of sleep in the evening and waking up at eleven the next day) was probably the fact that the bottle was a closed surface, so joining paper together became more difficult the more completed I was. 

At one point, it got so difficult to join the bottle (side) that I ended up having to cut through the top hexagon to get into the tabs. And of course afterwards, I couldn't put the hexagonal top back in, so I ended up just placing the tabs outside the bottle and covering them up with another layer of cardstock. (you can see this if you look closely at the top of my first picture.)

The final design of my object is to the right of the page. The red lines weren't actually included in the final object. (I had to use the tabs of the hexagon for the top though, because i couldn't put the top back in the bottle.  I wanted to bottle to be large so I split it into 6 pieces and printed them out using a similar template. That was the only reason why my bottle was around the same size as an actual bottle.





So Originally, My bottle template looked somewhat like this. We went over a layer of critiques in class that helped me shape it into the current object.

First of all, the teacher pointed out that instead of splitting the bottle down the middle, I should instead attempted to unroll the bottle from the sides. He explained that this would give more surface area to the paper I was playing with. Eventually, I decided that was still too small, so I employed my current strategy of the template.

Secondly, I was suggested to by my class that instead of making a 3D A&W logo, that I should print it out in 2D and paste it out as additional layers on the paper. I fully accepted their idea and even used the same concept for my "root beer" in the bottle.

Finally, the teacher recommended I cut paper bubbles out instead of drawing the designs out on paper. To a certain extent, I still feel like black marker would have given the object more content, but the current object is a nice twist to my traditional forms of making art.

This is the prototype design for my final design.