Jewellery Box

This is my final jewellery box design.  The box is a blur between 2 and 3 dimensional - the black lines are like drawing lines, the shift in angle that they are placed at gives a perceived volume.  They are clipped together with clear perspex to give the illusion of no edge or corners.  I wanted to 3D print the clip to hold the box together and to clip the jewellery onto it.       

Jewellery Box - Development

I am going to change my jewellery box design.  I don't like the aesthetic of the clips I have been making.  I think that clipping lots of elements together is not very effective visually or conceptually.  Also, we are having so many problems with the 3D printer that I cannot see there being any chance of getting this finished in time.  I need to use other materials.   

I want to shift the context of our most commonly perceived box - a cube.  No corners, no edge no volume.   

Jewellery Box - Development

I have decided to try and include my jewellery pieces in my jewellery box.  I am looking at clipping the bracelet together when it is sold, then these clips can build up a box by clipping together also.  I want the clip to be in one piece, the diamond shapes of the bracelet fitting into this.  The clips can form a tree like structure.  Some of the bracelet pieces can stay in the clip to make shelves for other jewellery to sit on.

Crit - File Review

For our file review we had to produce one corner of our jewellery box.  I was looking to combine my details of clips with the idea of a box that is not a box.  I am blurring the edge of the box, creating many lines along the edge to obscure the boundary between interior and exterior.  The conceptual model I made last was of 6 tubes making up each edge.  Where these tubes met they did not print.  Anytime there is an intersection it was not printed.  This negative detail is quite interesting.  It adds to the 'box that is not a box' concept - the points that you expect to be there are not.  While the box I am making suggests a box form, it has none of the functions of a box.  It does not hold objects in it, it does not have a lid.
I have decided to make a box that has many broken lines on each vertical edge.  Where these lines meet I have cut them away - at no point will two lines cross.  These lines will be clipped together.  I have designed a clip that will fit around all these lines, fitting them together at the right angle.  There will be 4 clips plus a base for each corner.  All the corners will be the same.  There will be more lines running across the box that the jewellery can be slid or clipped onto.
FEEDBACK: The clip is the most interesting looking part - it even looks like jewellery.  Why have you switched from a continuous line to broken lines?  Continual line is a stronger image.

Jewellery Box - Conceptial Thinking

I have been struggling to find a form and idea that will combine the ideas from my jewellery, details, theorist that I like.  I will create some sketches and conceptual images to help.  I am trying to work out the form and details of the jewellery box.  A box that is not a box...
A box is...
Linear, 3Dimensional, functional, contained, portable, geometric, stationary, closed...
A box that is not a box...
No volume, no edge, no corners, blurred, no form, no function... 

Jewellery Box

Using our details, we had to create one image that would show where we intend on heading with our jewellery box design.  
I had made the outline of box nets out of wire and folded them like you would a box.  When photographed and traced they made an interesting image.  I like how they suggest the shape of a box (a form we all easily recognize) without having any of the functions of a jewellery box.  This shifts the context and our perception of a box.  Maybe the box only has its complete form when it is being used - function creates form? 
I like the graphic nature of this image, as well as the line/sketchiness of it.  The boxes are interesting - particuarly the gaps between the bent wire.