The Winner of the BYU Design Review Competition is...
We had so many great submissions for the first BYU Design Review Competition! From everyone here at the BYU Design Review we want to say thank you to everyone who participated! We had a lot of fun reviewing your entries and seeing all the creative designs you came up with. Each design was judged based on a few different categories: originality, marketability, feasibility, and an X-factor.
First place in the competition goes to Clare Lore Schultz for her Confetti Cannon design.
We asked Clare to tell us a little about her process for the design.
How did you first come up with the concept of your design?
I wanted something fun, simple, and completely different from a traditional candle. I wanted to launch something and confetti/sprinkles sounded awesome! They're so fun and celebratory. As an added bonus they decorate the cake. It sounded like a child's dream come true.
Can you walk us through a little of your design process?
I started designing with the question: what makes blowing out candles so exciting? A fundamental part of the tradition is spotlighting the birthday boy or girl as they attempt to complete a small challenge: blowing out all the candles. The challenge is easy and fun, and everyone can celebrate their success. I brainstormed similar challenges that didn’t involve a candle, including launching toy rockets, lighting teabags on fire to make them fly, unfurling a paper spiral noisemaker, and covering the cake in sprinkles with a cannon. I decided on the confetti/sprinkle cannon because it was the safest and simplest idea. I then delved into how I would make it, what parts were needed, how they’d assemble together, how it would stay on the cake, how it could be washed, how it could be customizable or decorated, and a little bit of the physics of how it would launch. I made some sketches, then a CAD model to fully represent my design.
The people’s choice award goes to Jeremiah Sanders.
Runners-Up
Honorable Mention
Thank you again to everyone who participated. Hopefully you had fun and developed your design skills in the process. Keep coming back to the BYU Design Review for new articles and be on the lookout for the next time we have a design competition.
