Studio Brief 2 - Task 2

Task 2
- 10 conceptual pictures of your object in a text-editing program (pages)

Figure 1

Figure 1 is a recreation of the basic outline of the cassette tape using only horizontal lines. The variation of thicknesses add an element of depth and show the 3D aspects on the cassette tape. 

Figure 2

The tape reels are essentially the most vital element of the cassette tape as they create the movement so that the tape can then pass through and the sound can be created. Figure 2 shows a tiling of the individually designed reels, a fairly geometric approach to represent the large amount of straight edges on the design of the cassette tape. 

In contrast to this, Figure 3 and 4 focus on the depth of the tape reels and how they concave into the actual case structure itself. Figure 4 is also working to represent the spinning movement of the reels, as well as the depth. 

Figure 4

Figure 3

Figure 5

A lot of the personal memories of cassette tapes that I found when looking through blogs and different articles we all very reminiscent on the mount of times that the tape unravelled and came completely out of the tape, getting all tangled and caught around everything. I wanted to visually show this in Figure 5, showing the tangled lines by overlapping all of the circles and representing them in a circle way to show the spinning movement once again.

Figure 6

Figure 7

I thought it would be interesting to explore the shapes and patterns on the cassette tape that people may not notice. Figure 6 shows the holes at the bottom of the cassette tape that are around the tape section. Figure 7 is the section across the bottom of the case and the cut out sections are represented by the darker shapes with the lighter strip across the middle.

Figure 8

Figure 9

Figure 8 and 9 are very conceptual and are my own interpretation of the spinning of the reels. I decided to use rectangles in Figure 8 rather than the obvious choice of the circle. The rectangle shows the shape of the actual case of the cassette, something more interesting than just using the circles. Figure 9 uses a mixture of the circles, rectangles and triangles to visualise all of the different elements of the cassette tape and how they all layer up to create a 3D object. 
The final design, see Figure 10, very simply shows a pattern that symbolises the shape of the sound wave using vertical lines. Repeated in different colours and overlapped etc. could be very interesting if I was to further develop this. 

Figure 10