February 2011
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Team Bank Teller
This is the process log of a ‘full-build’ project by three industrial design students, Bryan Ake, Laura Fleece and Emma Hoop, from Georgia Tech. Our aim was to create the best ‘universal’ workspace for bank tellers that we could conceive. The dimensions of our project were driven by Henry Dryfuss’s Measure of Man and Woman, and were meant to allow people of all...
April 2009
98 posts
Watchdavidvanarsdale: a little recap !
David is really good at making videos; watch this one about what it means to make something at full scale.
Scannnnnin'
Currently scanning all drawings, sketches, diagrams, measured drawings, orthos, print-outs, whatevers pertaining to this project for the review. I’ve driven to the shop at least twice thus far today - once to take pictures, once to get above-stated papers that I conveniently put in the file cabinent drawer in our desk! Woop woop re-design + review time.
Work, cont.
The three of us are meeting at David’s shop tomorrow morning at 10ish, armed with computers and SW, to start working out some of these design problems that we’re encountering now while they’re fresh (and because we have finals in other classes next week, too).
We're doing skits! We're doing skits!
We’re checking out the space with open minds - lots of interesting opportunities that we hadn’t originally thought of. Some possible measurement-transferal-errors i.e. forgetting to add or subtract in the original plans, and then messing them up further through translation from tape measure -> saw -> wood -> desk -> installation, etc reminiscient of a game of telephone, but...
Done - for the moment.
Done building + cleaning the basics. ‘Skit’ in the space either this afternoon after 5 or tomorrow late morning. Ready to get away to come back!
The Next in the "Things to Ponder" series
How many times does one say “we’re almost done!” during the course of a project? Pretty sure we thought we were about an hour or two away from completion at our last blog post - 3:30am - when it is now almost 8:30 am and we’re still triming down the wall pieces. Then we need to clean up before we can head out so that our space is nice for the next time we come in.
3:30am Blog Call
Funny how time slips away, you know? For instance, tonight, I was a little peckish for dinner at about 9pm after a late lunch so Laura and I jumped in her car to go grab a bite - which turned into an adventure of sorts. While at the fine Burger King establishment closest to our lair of creativity, the exterminator dropped by. Needless to say, the food purchased was not consumed. On to...
Thursday - Build Day #4
Bryan worked in the shop this afternoon and got a lot of great stuff done -i.e. the teller assist unit is complete AND on wheels!
Laura and Bryan got some more bendy boards up, and some stuff cut, and over-all progress on all fronts.
The cubby drawers are more complete - the backs are nailed on to both the drawer and the file drawer. Laura and Emma have done 4 or 5 different experimental...
FYI #2:
Coffee in eyes is uncomfortable!
Together Again!
We are all finally in the same shop again, after Laura & Bryan’s departure at 1:30pm. We are feeling frantic. Or maybe just E & L..?
Oh hai!
Still just me, Emma, here at the shop from my group… I think what I’ve managed to do is great BUT considering I’ve been here since about 10am with just a few short trips..? Not great. We didn’t account for the table-saw-blade width when the pieces for the cubbies were measured and drawn out on a board so I still haven’t been able to cut out the other pieces to put it...
Dinner Time?
I, Emma, am the only one here at the shop from the Team BANK. Laura and Bryan left at about 1:30pm for their other engagements. According to the plan, they should both be back at around 9pm tonight and then I believe the whole studio is probably trucking on into 3am again [seems like a decent bedtime, right?] - which means we should have about 6 hours of three-person work tonight.
Honestly,...
Awesome work-all-day-Wednesday has turned into super-tough-middle-of-the-week-day. Darnit.