This is how my product has been slimmed down to the bare minimum. I think that it still has a feel of a spoon and the rounded edge and design motif all add to the 'vintage tableware' feel of the product.

After returning to the drawing board for what feels like the hundreth time I feel like I am about there with my design! It is tiny. So compact and small that you could fit in a tiny coin purse and still have room for your bus change.

I've made a few changes since I last drew my design. The design no logner has a cap. The usb will be cased in at the top and that will be it. This is because after speaking to people such as my sister and her friends who are all students they said they always just lose the lid anyway. This factor is also true to me, so I decided not to make one. If this product went into mass product this would also make the product cheaper to make.

So far my design is 35mm long, 20mm wide and just under 10mm in height. The is the smallest I could possibly make it to encase my usb board.

Making my spoon usb just a simple spoon handle isn't going as well as I had hoped. I have decided to keep with the idea but change my approach. Now instead of it looking very similar to a spoon, the spoon will be more just a theme and I will spend my time focusing on how to make the product as small and as sleek as possible.

I am currently trying to work out how to fit my USB board into the spoon shapped casing. It currently seems that one of the best ways to do this would be to cut the spoon in half and have it as more of a spoon handle. This way I can still etch onto the product or make a design to go onto the top like tradtional spoons do.

My design is being based around spoons, as it is for a vintage tablewear company. however I have already encountered several problems that I hadn't thought enough about. A spoon is very slender towards the middle and therefore will not be big enough to contain my USB board without the product become large, clunky and visually unappealing. I am going to have to go back to the drawing board and rethink my design idea. I still want to stay with my original idea of the tablewear company, but I'm not too sure how this will currently work.

Materials & Processes

I'm currently researching materials and processes, today I'm looking into laser cutting. I've come across a jewelery brand called Stolen Thunder Boutique, they have various products which have been laser cut onto wood