å Tuesday, October 24th, 2017

Finnish designer Stian Korntved Ruud did a project where he made (and designed) a different wooden spoon every single day for a year. I think this is an interesting project to consider in light of our current cutlery design project because working within the category of spoon you can see some designs that are fairly conventional and familiar, but also others that are definitely outliers for what’s acceptable for the category. And if you can imagine having to come up with a new design for a spoon everyday, you would be forced to really understand the boundaries of the category. See more about the project (including an image of every spoon – I think) from the designer’s website here:

http://www.stiankorntvedruud.com/Daily-Spoon-2014-15-1

Beginner: Build a model of the metal spoon that has been distributed in class. Orthographic top and side view images of the spoon are provided for your convenience below.

Advanced: Build the common disposable plastic spoon depicted below. This object will be distributed in class for you to inspect. This Rhino file provides some of the curves you can use to build this object. Begin by building just the “top” surface of the spoon (as shown below) – don’t worry about giving it thickness or making it a solid. If you succeed with that, try to complete the “bottom” and other surfaces necessary to form a solid.