To start this challenge we were given a phrase in Morse code and were asked to reimagine the forms which comprise Morse code to create a freestanding structure.

We started by translating our phrase to see if we could gain any inspiration from the contents of the message.

After working out the contents of the message we also decided that it would be important to work out the scale of work we had to complete. The scale would inform how complex our forms could be.

We found that our phrase contained 144 characters, not including spaces, and therefore the forms would have to be quite simple if we wanted to create the whole phrase in the given time frame.

This made us think that we should keep the forms simple and display them in a fun and interesting way which would also be legible. 

After discussing, we all liked the idea of using the design above as the concept for our structure - based on the toys found in doctors offices for young children.

I decided the easiest form to create a large amount of would be to create cubes using a box map, easily found online.

We quickly got to work creating cubes from different colour cards using a box map template. This process ended up being much more time consuming and labour intensive than we first thought as every box took a minimum of 5 minutes to trace, cut, fold and glue.

We were also unsatisfied with the look of the boxes as plain card so a couple members of our team set out to create stamps which would allow us to quickly paint patterns on the cubes.

Theses stamps would be made from designs drawn onto carboard and cut out hen glues to another piece of carboard for backing.

While my team were working on creating cubes and the paint, I set out to create the frame which they would be displayed on.

For the frame I felt that using 2 different diameters of wire would achieve the look we wanted.

I used a thicker wire to create the staple shape which would provide the main structure of the frame. I then used a thin wire to wrap around the entirety of the thicker wire which would allow me to fasten them both to wooden blocks.

Me and my team were extremely unsatisfied with our results on this task.

Conceptually we were happy with the toy based design, but in practice we had managed our time ineffectively and should likely have chosen a different media to create our code from, such as plasticine or clay. 

We learned a lot about time management in this task and also how important developing ideas can be. If I had to do this task again I would make many more concept sketches before deciding on a final design and plan.