Food wheel

Kids should be aware of what they need to be eating, Maybe i could make it into a game? Or have the lunchbox laid out in ways that each food type fits into a different compartment.

Also teaching kids how to read food labels could be a good idea to go with, and the Traffic light system could be good for the coulours.

This gave me a laugh

This isn't the age range i'm going with, but i thought it was funny..

It kinda shows that at this age kids will try anything they are given, because they don't know what the food is.

Piaget's cognitive theory

For the Final Major Project I have chosen the 5 -11years age range. However I believe this age range is to broad. After some research I have found that Piagets cognitive theory splits this age range into three stages.

At age 4-7 children are at the the Pre-operational stage.. This means they have good knowledge but don't understand how they know it, so they become curious and ask questions. At this age imaginations are developed. The child's thinking is influenced by imagination (the way they’d like things to be)and the child assumes that others see situations from they're viewpoint. The child takes in information and then changes it in his mind to fit his idea. Piaget noted that children in this stage do no yet understand concrete logic, cannot mentally manipulate information. Children’s increase in playing and pretending takes place in the Pre-operational stage.


7-11 is when children are at concrete operational stage. Children in this stage can only solve problems that apply to actual (concrete) objects or events, and not abstract concepts or hypothetical tasks. Intelligence is demonstrated through logical and systematic manipulation of symbols related to concrete objects. The child develops an ability to think abstractly and to make rational judgements about concrete or observable phenomena, which in the past he needed to manipulate physically to understand.


11years on-wards is the beginning of the formal operational stage. In this stage, individuals move beyond concrete experiences and begin to think abstractly, reason logically and draw conclusions from the information available, as well as apply all these processes to hypothetical situations.  Adolescents begin to think more as a scientist thinks, devising plans to solve problems and systematically testing solutions. They use hypothetical-deductive reasoning, which means that they develop hypotheses or best guesses, and systematically deduce, or conclude, which is the best path to follow in solving the problem. During this stage the young person begins to entertain possibilities for the future and is fascinated with what they can be.


I've decided for my project I will focus on the age range of 5-7, which is within the age range stated in the brief and within the Pre-operational stage of Piaget's theory.


I got the information on Piagets Theory from here.

My new bottle in 3ds max

So i started to create my new bottle in 3ds max, but after about 3-4 hours i came up with this, it doesn't look like the idea of how i want my design to look so i've decided for the submission i will just do the render and orthographic view by hand.

My Model of an existing water bottle

This is the bottle i choose to create in 3ds max. 

Firstly i drew a quick sketch so i could write all the measurements down and know what they were for.

This is the final render of the bottle

Class work - Polymodelling

 In class we done pollymodelling and created different boxes

A render of the boxes

Using the same techniques we then created a bottle.

Georgia O'Keefe

After doing some designs for my bottle i think the idea of using the shape of a flower (in particular looking at tulips) is the direction im going to go. I looked at some of Georgia O'Keefes work to help influence me with the shapes in them.