Adding some sketches for project #3

I just wanted to add some photos I took of my sketches of project 3.  The photos go in order from my first design idea (the hat box) and then go through some ideas I discarded before I created the models (see the quadrafoil?), until finally I came up with the idea for the final design for the box.

Sketches of hat box idea

Sketches of hat box with some different color combos

Sketches of different box ideas, square, quadrafoil, picture box

Oval Box  Envelope Box Sketch

This last photo is of the final box, with some different ideas for color I had.

I also wanted to post some of the comments I received from my piers during the pier critique in class.  I wish I had received more comments giving me ideas on how to improve the design.  However, the comments I did receive made me feel pretty happy with the success of my design.  People really clearly understood my message of old and new merging together.  In fact, my favorite comment was from someone who just wrote the word, "timeless" for their comment, which is EXACTLY what I was going for.  Someone else wrote, "Elegant, regal. Love that the necklace is depicted on the silhouette! Allows you to imagine wearing the necklace."  Someone else wrote, "Great job! I really think you captured the "timeless" quality. The black and white and silhouette work really well together and evoke elegance, femininity, and the necklace without referencing any particular time."  A few people did say they thought that the size of the box was bulky, and while I agree the size could be smaller, I really wanted the necklace to have room to hang within the box, instead of having to be folded into a smaller space, as if the box was made just for the necklace.  (which it was).