Box Development

After the crit I now have to consider the methods I take to make my box or sleeve, I originally thought I could make a box entirely out of concrete however that would require me to make a mould using an actual box to set the parameters, inside another box but have the inside box smaller and elevated so once the concrete mix was poured into that gap it could fill in the gaps not only along the sides but underneath the smaller box. It would be impossible to do so unless I made some kind of contraption that suspended the box from string perhaps from above the box, without it interfering with the template set out to be filled with concrete.

I'd had to have completed it someway like this:
 

After speaking with tutors from the woodwork and 3-D department I concluded it would be far easier to actually create a wooden box and coat it in concrete mix, I tested this out with two samples of plywood and left them to dry.

I then spoke about how I could construct the box appropriately, I was thinking laser cut would be the most achievable especially with the plywood material. I'd want a width of around 17mm, the plywood being around 6mm and wanting a 5mm gap in between the two pieces.





Not quite dry yet, I plan to leave them overnight to properly assess however so far I'm very happy with the colour (on the outside the drier edges, this will be the overall colour) and the texture especially as I now feel if I were to use sand it would look to forced and less like concrete, more like features on buildings purposely made to look more textured rather than the overall aesthetic.

I have a laser cut induction booked in tomorrow so I hope to be able to make my box then or at least gain the skills to enable to me to make it the next day if it's not possible in terms of time as my session is in the afternoon. In the mean time I need to work out the dimensions of my box by printing out my templates, finding the most appropriate size.

I've changed the font back to Helvetica bold after the disapproval of the font change in the crit; these being my final outcomes:



I'm printing these on 200gsm card, anything thicker wouldn't fold well whereas anything thinner would be too flimsy. This however means that I can only print onto these using the lasercut printer, diminishing the image quality but this is unfortunately a compromise I have to make.