While conceptualizing ideas for a project, I decided I wanted to make a practical art piece. To achieve that goal, I decided to make a can sleeve to stop your hands from warming up a drink. The idea was to fuse functionality with aesthetics in a way that elevates a common everyday item.
Process:
For this project I created a custom grasshopper definition to create all the geometry. I started out with a cylinder and solid differenced a hole in the center using the dimensions of an average can. Next I set out to create the voronoi pattern on the side of cylinder. First I unrolled the surface, then I added a voronoi pattern and offset it to create distance between the shapes. Then, I mapped the curves back to the side of the cylinder, extruded, and boolean differenced them to create holes. I then wrote a python script to create a curve that wraps around the body and used the pipe component to convert it into geometry. Finally, I added a cylinder to the top of the holder and used a polar array component to repeat the shape around the lip.
Materials:
For the final render, I envisioned a kind of classy sinister look when deciding what materials to use. I decided to use a black leather for the main body and a luxurious gold for the accents. The appearance of these two together really emphasizes its purpose of a functional art piece because of the way it is both attention grabbing yet rugged and looks like it was meant to be a daily fixture.
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