Week of 4/13 - 4/17

This week, I began working on another poster project. My friend, Oliver, asked me a few weeks back for ideas on how to ask his girlfriend to prom, in other words, help with a promposal. After looking through some playlists and albums for a quippy line to use on a poster, we pulled inspiration from an Arctic Monkeys song title, Dancing Shoes. He decided he wanted the sign to read, "Put on your Dancing Shoes, let's go to prom!" I thought the idea was very sweet, and I was very excited to help.

For the poster itself, he wanted it to be about two wood panels big - since it was a considerably big wooden poster at that size, I suggested that we connect the two sides with a hinge so that if they wanted to keep the sign after the promposal, they could, and it would be easier to store.

I created a quick sketch of the poster and used it to sort of map out what the sign would look like before I started modeling it. I began by following Mr. L's hinged box tutorial to design a hinge in CAD. The guide was very comprehensive and helpful when I was trying to design the hinge. While thinking about the design of the poster, I thought it would be a little odd or compromising to screw metal hinges onto the board just because the sign was thin as it is, and would make the base of the poster look less clean when finished. Because of this, I decided that gluing a few hinges on would be ideal for the sign's structure. They could also remove the hinges if they chose to afterwards.

After designing the hinge in CAD, I was able to print one out and test it on the two boards to determine if they worked the way I wanted them to. Thankfully, the first one I designed turned out very well, with the hinges cleanly holding together the two pieces and folding into itself nicely. After the first hinge worked, I printed out two more. I'm hoping that with these hinges all together, the sign will have enough support and fold together even better with that support. Once they are all printed, I'll be able to attach them to the back of the board and then decide with Oliver how to design the details on the poster itself.