DESIGN NAME: Picglaze Sample Book
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Catalogue of materials
INSPIRATION: Designers achieved to create a volume illustration or photography, composed by different layers that create a landscape or new picture in the composed form. Inspired in futurism illustrated posters for the illustration and films for the face composed.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Picglaze prints photos, but finishes them with something out of the ordinary. They print on versatile and different materials, with the rigidity of the formats as a main element. The challenge was to make the most of these qualities. Since the materials are rigid they can be sustained and form a composition. As such a sculpture with different colors and thicknesses. The design, it is a vertical composition with different levels, different artwork and illustrations, which are placed in layers, cut out differently making themselves a new picture or photo.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Customers of Picglaze can access to different possibilities for their printings by touching the elements themselves. The strongest point of the product is its appearance, how it feels, the first impression when you see it.The design take advantage of these qualities and show them right from the start. Nothing like briefcases or boxes with pieces of material, not just a succession of printed photographs to represent the collection.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: From January 2016 to August 2016. The design includes different collections for illustrations and photography.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Printing image with high gloss finishing on different materials as pvc, MD, methacrylate, dibond...
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 32x18x39 cm when the piece is assembled.
TAGS: design, graphics, PLV, samples, book, catalogue, illustration, photography,
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Photography professionals use this display to show clients the wide range of materials where they can print their photos. The piece is a decorative object that looks pretty on the point of sale of any studio of photography. This is a plus of usability and experience. It is easy to choose this display over its competitors. It stands out, as others work in more conventional and rigid formats.
CHALLENGE: Eight different materials were used in this design:
MDF 35 mm.
PVC 3 mm, 5 mm, 10 mm, 19 mm.
Sandwich panel, Dibond 3 mm.
PMMA, Plexiglas 3 mm.
A framed PVC piece 35 mm.
The main challenge when designing this was to prepare the pieces in a base made of the same materials and able to sustain the whole display. This way, the client can produce their own displays, without having to outsource them. One of the materials had a fixed size. It was a 126 mm x 126 mm square that we should not alter, it had to support and integrate the whole construction. That particular adaptation was one of the hardest problems to solve.
ADDED DATE: 2017-02-27 12:31:03
TEAM MEMBERS (3) : Beatriz Suárez , Miguel Angel del Baño and Adrián Marzal
IMAGE CREDITS: Illustration and product by Estudio Maba
Human models Images from Shutterstock®
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