Friday, 5 November 2010

Primary designing for my elephant fire engine






 This was the initial ideas for my fire engine.


Let's look a bit bigger. This was the VERY first idea of the car. 
It was from simple ordinary old tricycle. 
After this, the elephant came into my brain, so I combined them together.


  After it was combined with elephant's trunk, It has a hosepipe coming from the front part of the car instead of the front wheel. The hosepipe can pulled out and if you pull it again it will go in automatically. It's a semiautomatic hosepipe. 
It will help to understand imagining pulling out electrical cord of hoover.


This is the back of fire engine. 
It is small tricycle, however, it still has all the gadgets and small water tank inside of the boot. 
It can't be forgotten to bring ladder as well. 




Elephants' trunk









The last elephant's trunk is definitely my role hosepipe! 

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Brainstorming



I have been thinking about what would I do for Industry exercises for a week. At the weekend, I went to the tate modern and the london eye for finding inspirations and doing some research for Digital environment group project. After I walked out from the tate, I heard a fire engine sound. I just imagined what would happen in the fire scene and fire engine mindlessly. Just thinking of fire engine, I thought that the fire engine's fierce colour and all the gadgets seemed interesting to chop down. 

Fire Engines







Old fire engine motor bikes




 I found these motor bike fire engines are really interesting and they have very unique shape. 
Also, of course they have gadgets to put out a fire so I thought there will be more fun to re-design with them. As i was searching more motor bike designs, 3 wheel motor bike would suit for my fire engine motor bike than usual 2 wheel motor bike. 



3 wheel motor bikes






Although they are military 3 wheel motor bikes but I like the fact that they have room for more people or loads.  It could be look like a small car as well.


Fire engine toys 





The last one is actually kettle, it inspired me combining fire engine with other objects or creatures. I found the similarity between fire engine's hosepipe and elephant's trunk!


resource of other components (e.g. headlights, front shape of fire engine motor bike, dashboard) 
and etc.