My final designs for the form and facet brief are a pair of silver goblets and a silver plate with a condiment bowl inspired by the hexagonal shapes found in beehives. Each piece will have a hammered finish with a high polish and are designed to be bought as a light hearted ‘wine and dine’ set. The plate has a dip in the centre to allow the small accompanying bowl of sit supported in the middle.

  My designs looked much more finished after they’d been rendered and I could better visualise what they might look like in real life if I were to develop them further. I’ve been working with the hexagon shape to relate to my form and facet research where I’ve been looking at the geometric shapes surrounding bees. I’ve not quite got to grips with the lighting aspect of rendering so I’d like to improve theist make my designs look more lifelike.

I really enjoyed using the revolve and rail revolve commands to create vessels as I found it gave me more creative freedom to come up with interesting outlines which I could play with to achieve different designs.

After the first lesson I found it easier to work my way around the Rhino programme. I enjoyed creating the flat shapes to be etched and laser cut, I found it easier to work with than the 3D solid shapes. I also liked the tracing tool to replicate my drawing and extrude it to create a solid object. Al though it took me a while to figure out, I was pleased with the way the final object turned out.

 Having only used CAD a handful of times, I initially struggled with using the controls and properly creating a design, but after a few tries I was able to make some vessels I was pleased with.