Soap Box 3D Design

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The BAR BOX

  • Category: product design
  • Client: Samantha Piperhoff
  • Project date: March-May, 2022

Group Project

This is one of my group project of year2 semester2. Rodothea who is a designer made branding design and I made 3D prduct Design. There are other 2 group which do same project. Specifically, We focus on the client feedback and designy and useful design. The target is Eco aware user that want to cut down on single use plastics.

Work

Travel Soap

This product is travel soap conttsiners. so it ia designed portable and useful for the travel.

3D printing

This product will be 3D printed. ALso This is first time to try 3D printing for me.

Creativity

to make there creative idea; focus on use satisfaction and lovely design

sustainability

The product is to reduce the number of single use plastics in the environment.

Designer Work

We have created a product to suit soap bars of approx. 6 cm square shape. This is an initial sketch. We started modelling with a blender based on this dimension.This design has five small soap boxes in one large box, designed to easily carry small amounts of soap with different contents.

　　　　

Initial Design Work

I do modelling of intial product design for mock up. I was conscious of the dimensions of the soap to make it easy to takeI discussed with the designers and added ideas such as holes to release moisture and clip parts to make it look pretty. We also revised this product design three times to bring it closer to the final design. Also I made bathroom envirnment for mock up rendering.

Initial Rendering

For Client

This is first rendering for Client. The client chose white and mable design, so I render with Sophisticated lighting.

For Designer

This is rendering for designer Rodothea, she would like to get pink and mixed colour design for her website and social media.

Environment Design

This is rendering with bathroom environment, I nmade environment which imagine a hotel bathroom. Marble textures and mirror reflections were adjusted using nodes in blender.

3D Design

Based on feedback from initial design clients and designers, some modifications were made.

  • First, the background was changed to an image-based background instead of an environment created in 3D. This was to allow more light in the interior lights in the 3D-created environment would have created a darker atmosphere in the render, so we used sunlight lights to give a brighter overall impression, and placed brighter images in the background as well.
  • Secondly, the barbed edge to prevent the soap from sticking to the ground of the box was changed from a line to a logo design. This enhances creativity by branding the product itself.
  • Third, we made an animation. Bones were inserted to represent the movement of the soap box. And we made sure that people could clearly see how to use it.

    • Final Rendering Design

    The final renderings were bright and clear. Focused renderings were also done for both large containers and small boxes. To show the branding, the logo was made larger than actual size and bags were placed.

    3D printing

    This is the first 3D print of my design. It was the most difficult and caused some problems.

  • First of all, there is a limit to the number of joints that can be created with a 3D printer. It was impossible to create the design that the designer had in mind with a 3D printer.The initial design used Ninja Flex material for the joints and try to print it, but it was assumed that it would not print well, so it was decided to change to a shell-open format and print at the both top and bottom of the box at once.
  • Secondly, if the top and bottom are printed at once, after printing, the joint indentations and the holes for drying the soap need to be cut and adjusted with a laser cutter.
  • Thirdly, the 3D printer at the university was small and it turned out that it was not possible to print the top and bottom separately to produce a box of the size to meet the 6 cm soap that was actually envisaged. Although it is possible to print in a scaled-down size, which would save printing time, it would not be what the client wants in the end.

    • We are printing from a small box at scale and discussing how it should be created. We are now planning to do the final 3D prints as close to actual size as possible during the Transmedia exhibition as an opportunity for the client to see the 3D prints as well.

    Still working process....

    Animation

    The animation lasts approximately 7 seconds and consists of removing a box from a bag, opening a large box, removing a small box, opening a small box, removing soap. As there are few designs for the joints of the boxes that can be made with a 3D printer, an animated rendering was done with the ideal design.