An Introduction:
Welcome to Project Icebreaker. What is Project Icebreaker? Project Icebreaker is our attempt to make tool heads from pykrete to make reusable tools for astronauts and people in colder climates or third world countries. Pykrete is a mixture of water and sawdust and it makes a very hard, very durable substance. When starting the project we bounced around ideas and originally thought we would make environmentally friendly boats, after some discussion and consideration we decided to change directions and make tools out of pykrete. We decided to focus specifically on designing a hammer that was practical and useable and efficient for those who our product was aimed towards. We contacted mentors and did some research about the history and capabilities of pykrete. We then sat down and designed a logo and after some thinking we decided a fitting name for our project was Project Icebreaker.
How we organized:
Brainstorming
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Gantt Chart
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Our Mentors
Chris Fehring
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Jeremy Li
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Our Logo
The design of the Logo fell to me and one of my group mates. We called while we brainstormed possible ideas and knowing our project was called Project Icebreaker, we knew we wanted something to do with snowflakes or snow/ice. After some back and forth throwing of ideas we landed on the idea of having a snowflake with different tools on the ends of each end of the snowflake. the second photo on the blue paper was our first concept sketch of the logo and along side that is our notes for what we wanted the logo to be and possible tools the logo could have. We looked at multiple snowflakes designs and found a chart and asked our teammates to vote on which snowflake they liked best for the base.
After that conversation we reached out to a friend with access and experiences in photoshop who helped us make our idea a reality with multiple different color palettes including a blue to white gradient or just solid white. In the end we went with solid white but ended up changing it to be solid black so it would show up on our documents and could be used in the header. |
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Human Centered Design Research
Demands and Wishes
After our research