Focus Fancy Dress

Focus Vehicle Rental are a company located in Inverness who have expanded to have a fleet on vehicles of over 250 in just 5 years. Last summer they expanded further into Fancy Dress hire and approached me when wanting to design a graphic for a vehicle that would be used as an advertising tool.

The brief was simple - Bright, Bold and most of to attract attention!!!

The car of choice was a small quirky smart car, this is the car before I started.

Final Model

Portable

The Drumlin is also portable and will fit easily in a rucksack, as you can see from the image above it is the same size as a 13 inch laptop.

Multiple Purchase

The Drumlin can be used individually or can be used by a company wanting to improve their seating. They are also stackable as shown in the image bellow.

Instructions

Product Logo

Renders

Photo Shoot 2

Photo Shoot

5th Model

4th Model

3rd Model

Final Concept Colour Proposal

Above are three renders to show different colour proposals. Blue for men, purple for women and the black for a corporate design.

Corporate Colour Scheme

A Render to show a corporate style of the product.

Final Concept Mark2 Suction

To show how well the product seals to what it is attached to I have take these pictures to it attached to a wall and even the roof.

Final concept Mark2

This time I securely attached the vac formed mould to the seat base with insulating tape which created a more secure connection and stopped the silicone from leaking through the mould, I also died the silicone instead of having plain white silicone.

This model worked very well with a clean line separating the silicone the plastic.

Final Concept Mark1

Above is an image of the final product mark1, it works extremely well, with the core stopping users slouching. The silicone seal creates a secure vacuum and securely attaches the product to the chair. The silicone also sticks to the chair stopping the product from moving about on the chair when the user sits on it.

The process I used to attach the silicone needs some improvement, there was a large amount of silicone that slipped through the mould which did not give the silicone a clean edge

Manufacturing Process - Part 3

For the outside edge firstly a male model had to be made so again this was done by using the CNC machine, this was then Vac formed to create the female which silicone would be poured into to create the final model. To create this part the vac formed plastic was sealed against part 1 using insulating tape with a wooden insert in the centre to allow a hollow to be left after the moulds were removed.

Manufacturing Process - Part 2

Using the shape used previously I used a sheet 450x450mm to vac form over the shape, I then cut off the excess material and sanded down the edges.

Universal shape

As you can see from the images above, it is a universal shape that fits all sorts of chairs. Any smaller and it would not work as the product would not have contact with the whole chair.

Manufacturing Process Part 1 - CNC Base

Using a Rhino model I cut out a shape using the CNC machine that will create the shape of the base of the product. I will use this shape to Vac form a sheet of 1.5mm plastic over which will be the main part of the product.