Psychographics (3)

Production

Vacuum forming

I have been using laser cutting to accurately cut out the logo of psychographics.

After cutting the logo on card with the laser cutter. i have been carefully gluing each layer together to formed a ’3D’ shape of the logo.

Then i am re-positioning the logo onto the card as a base so that it sit on top of the bed of the vacuum forming machine.

Here is a mock up of the vacuum formed mold. i have specifically a thinner plastic which 0.5mm (normally 1.0mm) in order to pick up as much detail around the edges of the logo when it come down to vacuum forming . One of the thing i have pick up from this testing is that since the gap between each logo are spaced too close to each other, in a result doesn’t provide enough ‘space’ for the vacuum machine to suck the plastic. that left with half sucked plastic and it doesn’t look good, it look half finished. so i need to somehow try to fix this issue either by heating the plastic long or recreating the logo by spacing out a bit more for the vacuum forming to suck better.

Production

After taking advice from the technician down at the workshop. the way of solving the ridges between the logo on the plastic mold is to drill a tiny whole on the edges that are too closed to each other. That allow more air suck ion can actually go into the mould it self. and that could solve the problem. since whatever i am doing all the base mound, it will actually be pick up by the vacuum form machine. so that the hole must kept as small as possible and as close to the edge of the logo as possible.

Note book

I am using a typical method of hand binding the note book. binding myself a own book is something i always wanted to do. so this project allow me to do so.