Home

So my app isn't just a fancy powerpoint I decided to put in a home button.
Every button of the home page will be clickable and will take the user to different places but you can always go back to the home page to choose a different button.
Rather than clutter up the screen with another icon I decided to make the title the home button.

Keyboard

 I didn't want my app to start right at the menu with the icons so I'm going to have a welcome screen where the user enters their name.
This screen is mostly just an excuse to use the keyboard that I designed.

Flash

I thought that since I spent quite a bit of time making the missionVIC stamp I could make it into a button. I'm making the stamp in the corner flash on and off to make it obvious that that's where you click to get to the next page.







Since my app is quite simple I'm going to obsess over the details, I want all of the screen transitions to be really cool. Like the transition below.

Mission VIC

This is the aesthetic I'm going for in my app. I'm quite proud of the mission VIC stamp

  

 I put in a 'keep your cover' button that opens the schoolofdesign page, I don't want my agents' identities compromised.

Ngaru

I think I'll be able to imply some of the pattern through lighting so I won't have to have all of it in my 3D form.

Continued

I am developing the pattern on it's own and seeing if it can make a form by itself.

Into 3D

Experimenting with ways to get an internal lattice structure and curves.









I took this kowhaiwhai pattern into SolidWorks and then to 3Ds Max. This is the sort of thing I had in mind when I sketched this.

I fitted three of these shapes into one another to make a sort of exoskeleton.

Sketches

This is my first sketch, I thought about overlaying a pattern onto another figure, blue is for the foreground and yellow is inside/behind.

I focused more on the bone texture and the insect leg for this sketch. I think I captured the jointedness and I sketched out the pieces that would make up the leg on the right.

I thought about the armour plates on woodlice. I think having a thin patterned layer over the top of a solid plate could be interesting. It could even be the vein-like pattern of the dead leaf.

In this sketch I thought about what it would look like to make a moko 3D.

Research

I just had no idea where to start with this project, so I started searching for forms or patterns in nature.

I like the way all insects' bodies are sort of compartmentalised. Especially the plates on the woodlouse. I love the way its armour fits so exactly that it can curls itself up into a ball.

I thought about patterns in nature, these fractal patterns are interesting, where each larger component is made up of smaller versions of the same component. The far right image is an example of a 3D printed form. It has a definite internal structure that still manages to look very natural.

 I really like the intricacy of Maori patterns, I've listened to my Aunts and Uncles explain the meanings behind their tattoos for hours and my grandfather was a carpenter that carved things like the examples below.
I'd really like to draw from a kowhaiwhai or moko pattern.

           

 Here are some materials from nature that I found. The first two are leaves and the next three are bone, sugar and a tortoise shell.  I love the segmentation of the leaves, even the dead one clearly shows the divisions. They also look quite light and delicate, like networks of arteries.
I also like the segmentation of the blackberries and the way the skin on each of them shines.