This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy.
TEAM TARGET
Roster: Guilherme Lemes, Jesus Garate, Jared Fiorovich and Shaun Kosoy (CMF)
Sometimes you need to go 3D when 2D can’t show what’s on your mind. Yesterday, my friend Quetzal taught me how to make a last using gummed paper tape. This paper tape becomes sticky when you apply water over it, but it is also harder than normal tape when it dries up. We applied it over a shoe last and let it sit until it dried and became strong enough to hold the shape of the shoe last. Then we delaminated the paper tape out of the shoe last and joined the paper tape pieces to create a shoe last made out of paper.
Today, I used the paper shoe lasts as a base to work on some of my origami concepts I needed to work on a 3D perspective because it was challenging to show my origami concepts on a 2D drawing. Working with these lasts helped me show movement and folds on my design. I have to mention that it was a lot of fun to learn how to make a paper shoe last and also working with the low fidelity prototypes. Sometimes making drawings is not enough on this kind of process. I am aiming to have a final design by the end of this week.
Delaminating half of my second paper tape last. Making paper prototypes for validation. That’s me testing one of my prototypes.
