Playing with the laser again

If you've perused my online portfolio you may have noticed something... my images and other documentation are a bit lacking. Over the course of my design career, I've designed some pretty cool things, but until recently I didn't realize how important it was for me to document my design process. Now, looking back at past projects, what few images I have are poorly framed, focused, or exposed. In fact, for my final undergraduate project, my team and I designed a really cool tricycle with remote steering for a young boy with some disabilities. Despite how much I would love to share the project, my documentation was terrible!

So why am I telling you all of this? Because I'm doing something about it. I took a design process portfolio course this term hoping to learn some good documentation and reflection techniques. As part of the course, the teacher had us design a unique printing and binding technique for our portfolio. The images above are what I came up with.

Aside from my fellow product design engineers, all of the other students in the course were fashion and textiles or fine art majors. In a room full of artists, I wanted to communicate my technical engineering background in an aesthetically pleasing manner. I decided to try and make my portfolio look like a package of technical drawings with an creative twist.

The clipboard I created is laser cut from 4 mm MDF and the pages are bound with Chicago screws. I thought it turned out pretty neat. What do you think?