Flip it !

On a previous blog I explained on the design I was going to make for Toly Products. 

I continued to develop my ideas further, till I had to stop working on that design concept. 

We all had to show our chosen design to the head school teachers together with the company representatives. 

Before we showed anything the Company wanted to show us their latest works which were exhibited in China. 

To my disbelief ! . . . One of their products had the exact same concept as mine. 

I Spoke to the Representatives about the choices I had and the different designs I came up with so I could immediately start working on another concept. 

Although it was a shock at that time, I actually took it as a lesson at the end.

That i had no reason to look back ! I immediately looked at the possibilities and stepped forward into a new design ! 

From the designs I had I chose to continue on ' Flip it '. 

This concept all came to me before I went out one day. 

I was applying my eyeshadow and noticed how dirty my palette always gets.  

Apart from it being dirty I hated the way it mixes up the colors which makes the application uncomfortable for the user. 

So from then on I wanted to design a palette which could have the shadow bases separate from each other , and also find a way how to keep the palette clean ! 

After sketching on paper and thinking of how I might do it i came up with using the 'Flip and turn' technique. 

Basically having each shadow rotating from the midpoint. 

Experimenting on the flipping technique on midpoint. 

For application you basically pull the magnet plate down, turn the shadows you want to use and put the plate back up so the shadows wont rotate unconsciously. 

For color indication I chose to design a set of varieties for the costumers to chose from. The colors help indicate clearly what the color on the other side is. 

               Varyations of how the indicators may be.       

As materials i've chosen pvc plastic with a glossy finish. As I thought there's no way normal eye shadow palette could make the packaging white because of the mess they create. 

With this technique when the shadows are flipped/rotated back to place, one can easily clean the surface of the box. 

Also. . one could also pull out the plastic plate with the magnets and clean that too for maximum cleanliness ! 

I also thought about hand cleanliness ! I didn't want that the person using this product dirty's their fingers to flip them back down. . . so I attached a piece of plastic shaped and calculated from a womans

finger so that the person using it could flip it resting on that plastic panel. 

As for computer Renderings I tried to assign Glossy plastic though had some difficulties ! 

I will try again later on tomorrow. 


Also I wanted to say that as design aesthetics I wanted it to be very minimal as to give the client the liberty of wanting their own shape . . with this new easy application and cleanliness system. 
It could practically be created and manufactured in any shape so I wanted the focus to be on the Function. 

Good Luck Everyone ! 

TamZ.