ART 231

Process
Book

Matthew DeFinis
Fall 2019
 Table of Contents

About Me................................... 3

Paper Airplane Project.............

4-10

Soap/Packaging Project............
11-16

Playing Card Project.................

17-22

All Final Projects....................... 23

 About Me

Hello, my name is Matthew DeFinis. I am a junior at Central Michigan

University and am planning to major in Broadcast and Cinematic Arts,
with a double minor in Advertising and Multimedia Design. In my free
time I enjoy relaxing and going to grimey dubstep shows.. However,
when the winter months are here you can find me on the slopes. I am
very big into snowboarding and am the Fundraising Chair for the Cen-
tral michigan University Ski and Snowboard Club. All of my projects I
did for this class I wanted to be a representation of me and things that I
like and I hope you can see a piece of mein my projects. Enjoy my work!
Fire Up!
Paper
Airplane
Project
Step 1: Plane Design
The first step in this project was to find two diffeent paper airplane
designs. To do so I did a trusty Ol’ google search for easy paper airplane
designs. You can see the two paper airplane designs I chose below:

On the left is your typical dart style paper airplane.

And on the right is the stable style paper airplane design.
Step 2: Topic Research
The next step in the paper airplane process was to decide a topic for each
of my airplane. Each plane in this project was to be used a promotionl/ed-
ucation piece for the Kalamazoo Aerospace and Science Museum.

To find a topic I did some research by going onto the Kalamazoo Aerospce
and Science Museum website, airzoo.org. Onceon their website, I looked
through their exhibits page to see what exhibits/information they were
presenting.

After researching, I came to a concesus on a different topic for each of my

airplanes.
Step 3: Illustrator De-

The theme I chose for my first plane was space. More specifically our
galaxy The Milky Way. One side presents our solar system, while the other
provides folding directions and facts about our galaxy.

For my second plane, I chose to base it off of the Apollo 11 exhibit at

the Aerospace and Science Museum. I incorporated folding directions,
information about the Apollo mission and the patches of all the Apollo
Missions.
Step 4: Print & Fold
Once I designed my planes apropriately in Adobe Illustrator, the next step
was to print each plane out. Below you can see my two airplanes. Each
with a final folded version as well as a unfolded final version.

This was the final step in the process of completing this project. To
demonstrate that they could fly affectively, we were asked to fly pur plain
white airplane designs.
Soap
And
Packaging
Project
Step 1: Soap Sketches
The first step in the soap project was to sketch some ideas
for the soap. Knowing that we were required to have a
curved edge on the soap somewhere, I decided to go with
the standard oval shaped bar of soap. Once I knew that I
was going to make it “Send It Soap” to promote the CMU
Ski and Snowboard Club, the rest was easy. Below are my
sketches for the bar of soap.
Step 2: Fusion 360 De-

To begin my soap design, I created

a standar ovular shape that is
pretty standard for soap. On the
front I really wanted people to
know that it is the “Send It Soap” .

As for the back, I made sure that

people knew that this soap was
based on the Central Michigan
University Ski and Snowboard
Club. With the added snowflakes, it
clearly visual.

One of the last things I did for my

soap design was add an extra round-
ed edge along the already rounded
long edge. I did this to add some
more dimensions to the soap.
Step 3: Printing Process

The next step in the soap design project is to 3D print the

soap. To do so go to cmich.edu/makerbot/. Once on this
websit click on “submit a job”. This will bring you to a new
page where you are able choose print options, the color etc.

Once on this page

name your print so
that it is something
you will easily identify.
For this project I told
them to print it on the
best side possible, in
a translucent purple
color, with a 5% infill.
These 3D prints can
be very expenive and
for a college student,
the 5% infill will save
you money. I also
printed mine on a Fri-
day so it could print
over the weekend.
Step 4: Illustrater Design

Now that the soap is being printed, the next task is to design packaging for
the soap. Above is my final packaging design file in adobe illustrator. For this
project I am trying to promote the Central Michigan Ski and Snowboard
Club. By incoorporating elements of our university and elements that show
it is the ski and snowboard club, I feel as though I was able to promote iit
well. Although I would have liked to designed the inside to have a brief defi-
nition of what “send it” means to our team I ran out of time.

Above are some examples of my initial print outs of the

packaging. For this I took a rough sketch of a package
design and made the lengths so that it would fit the soap.
I enjoyed doing so however, I found it diffcult at times
to get the lengths where I wanted them, as well I would
reajust the images everytime I readjusted the size of the
box.
Step 5: Final Construction
Once I had design the package, the only thing left to do was
print and assemble the packaging.

Below is a few images of my final soap and package design.

Playing
Card
Project
Step 1: Collect Images
The first step for this project was to decide on a topic and
gather images for that topic. The topic I chose to was the
art of the indiginous people of Australia. The suit that I am
making for this projects sake is hearts and it is revolved
around aborigininal indigenous Australian Art. To begin I
did numerous trusty Google searched to find my content.

The above left image is what I was

searching for in regards to the back-
grounds of my card. I wanted bright
colors that differentiated from the
animals I chose to make them pop
more.

The above righ image is how I

searched for the animals that I
wanted to photoshop onto the
backgrounds. This was fairly difficult
as I had to consider many things
including image size and quality.

The far right picture is all of my

picture files. I collected many more
than necdesary incase some worked
better than others.
Step 2: Design Each Card
For the Ace card I wanted
to keep it simple. However,
I feel as though I have kept
it to simple since this stands
out from the rest.

For the King card, I chose

to put the kangaroo on it
because when most people
thinkof Australia they think
of the kangaroo.

For the queen, I chose the

owl because I really like how
it blened into the bakcgrou-
und I chose for the card.
 I chose to do snakes for the
Jack because, I felt as though
it looked the best having the
faces look in oppoaite direc-
tions.

For the number car, the

hardest part was to find a
background that didn’t over
powere the red of the hearts
suit.

For the joker I chose to put

the platyus because it is a
unique animal. Its kind of a
joker in itself because it is one
of two mammals that lay eggs.

This last image is my design

for the back of the card. I
wanted to make sure that
whoever was using these
cards could easily be able to
tell what the topic was.
Step 3: Card Construction

The last step of this project was to print off and construct real cards at real
size. Above is the illustrator file of all the components of my cards ready to
print and construct.

Once printed and trimmed, the next and possily hardest part, was to glue
the backs to the fronts which was very tedious and called for many re trys
to get it perfect. Here is how it turned out.
All Final Projects
This class was a very good expierience for me. I really enjoyed how hands on it
was as well as how much creative vontrol I had with all of my projects. I feel as
though my skills have been improved but are still far from being amazing.
Here is all the final versions for my Paper Aiprlane project, Soap/Packaging
project, and my Playing Card project.
The End
Matt DeFinis