Rubbish For Sweets

Finally, here is my work presented at the Ravensbourne exhibition. I included instructions for how to use the model within my poster & displayed the adjacently so that people would easily understand how it works. Seeing the children from Christ Church Primary School was so worth all of the work that went into making this exhibition a reality.

I decided to create this design, containing the name of the invention & instructions for how to use it so that the children will understand how it works. I plan to print these off as stickers to place onto the front of the machine.

I decided to create branding to go alongside my model, tying everything together. I chose to use a bubblegum style font (as it is a gumball machine) & used the same colours Chizara chose in her design.

I decided to build my final model out of cardboard, as plastic was very expensive to order. This time around, I made the cardboard thicker and sturdier so that it would feel more professional. I also took time cutting to make sure that everything was straight and even, rather than just piecing things together like I did with the prototype.

I created a cardboard prototype of Rubbish For Sweets, figuring out how to make a working mechanism so that I can create a more polished version for the exhibition.

In order to begin work on my gumball machine, I began collecting materials to work with. Back in December, I started collecting cardboard from deliveries so that I could repurpose it for my design. I was also looking at using sweet jars for the top of the gumball machine, but instead bought cocktail bowls which would work perfectly on top.

I found a brilliant video which shows you how to make a (fairly) simple working gumball machine. I plan to follow this video but modify it so that rather than accepting coins, the machine will accept rubbish.

Here I created quick digital mock ups of the design in Illustrator - to show scale, colours & to start to bring the design to life.

Using cardboard, I created a rough prototype of 'Rubbish For Sweets' to show the scale of all the components. As described, it is supposed to be taller than Chizara, and so I used the mannequin to show roughly her height against the prototype.