Studio Practice in Object Design - Maddy Birns

The Bespoke Object Progress Blog  Week Five & Six - February 24th, 2025 Last Monday, I did a test print of the butterfly clip and definitely discovered a lot. I guess there's a reason for test prints, right? The print went smoothly, although it took a really long time. The problem came when I removed the print and had to remove the support material. Long story short - I couldn't. There was absolutely no way to remove the material between the wings without cracking the structure.  This is the test print after I spent literally three hours trying to remove the support material, this was as much as I could remove. Small snippet of me struggling with this print ^^ I went to talk to Peter and he made a few recommendations. Because my plan is to have the final butterfly clip be resin printed, there are a few things that I have to take in to consideration. The resin printer prints an absolute minimum of about a millimetre, so he recommended that I make the wings thicker to a...

The Bespoke Object Progress Blog  Week Three - February 10th, 2025 It's all coming together! The model of the butterfly clip is done! The first thing I did this week was re-measure to confirm my dimensions. The most time consuming part was finding the right shape for the claw piece and the correct angle for the teeth. In past weeks, I was trying to flow the whole surface of the claw around a curvy line and that really was not working, so I approached it from a bit of a different way. I decided I wasn't going to add a curve to the top wing at all so that I can keep it straight for the acrylic later.  Not curving that top portion also gave me a bit better of a flat surface for the little notches that the road and spring goes through.  Although I'm not quite ready for this step this week, I prepared the laser cutter file that I'll need for the wings. Up until  this point I had totally forgotten about the antennae and I think they just add another unique element. Okay,...

The Bespoke Object Progress Blog  Week Three - February 3rd, 2025 A bit of a less eventful blog post this week, I ended up having a ton of commitments and my plans of completing the model this week sort of fell through. Every time I sat down to work on the model this week, I ran into issues.  Sort of back to the drawing board a little bit this week. Claw Clip Analysis:  I deconstructed a claw clip this week to look at the mechanism and the flow of the claw clip. I thought I would have to glue the spring onto the claw pieces, but the ends of the spiring actually just fall into a small indent to keep the tension.  Something that I also need to do this week is re-measure the dimensions of the clip. I think maybe part of the reason I am having trouble is because the dimensions aren't exact.  Claw: I have used Rhino before but I am still far from an expert and I am having trouble with the shape of the claw itself, so I think before continuing, I need a bit of guidan...