My inspiration for improving a protective bag for changing lenses came mainly from my original design. The original design process has its own website linked with the button below.
As the project progressed, I drew inspiration from the architect Renzo Piano. In his architecture, he often designs buildings around pre-existing buildings or environments that require manipulation of a design to be implemented. This can be seen in one of his most famous buildings "The Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé" (pictured below), this building was designed around the preexisting French architecture and buildings and takes on an organic shape. His design around a pre-existing structure, helped me improve my design around the structure of the camera it would hold, and the user.
The first thing that I wanted to do with this design was bring it into a prototype so that I had it in real space. I wanted to do this so I could more easily troubleshoot and figure out what I might need to change about the design.
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After I cut out all of the panels that I needed, I laid them out in the way they needed to be sewn together and began assembling them all. I started by attaching the Velcro the tabs of nylon fabric. The first problem I ran into was being able to sew the Velcro. The Velcro had an adhesive that would cause the needle of my sewing machine to stick and get covered in adhesive. Instead of sewing I just applied weight to the adhesive and let it sit on the tabs. I then sewed the tabs to the vinyl in the correct orientation. Afterwards I sewed the felt over the seams of the tabs. When sewing the bottom and side panels, I pushed the dowels in the pocket before sewing it shut, and then added lines of stitch parallel to the dowels to hold them in place. For the window panel and the glove panel, I had to go back and cut out circles and a smaller rectangle to sew in the vinyl and gloves. After sewing all panels together, I had my final product.
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