Turing over a "New Leaf" Coasters - Design Tech Project

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Turning over a "New Leaf" Coasters and Holder. 

For the coaster holder project in Design Tech, I decided to create 4 coasters related to my favorite game Animal Crossing New Leaf. Each of the coasters represents an icon from the game. The logo (the leaf), a money bag icon, a fossil, and the exclamation mark is a pitfall seed. I made my coaster out of 1/4-inch thick maple wood. I used adobe illustrator to design my coasters and coaster holder and then the laser cutter to cut and engrave them. The wooden dowel on my coaster holder was made out of the handle of a foam paintbrush. My favorite part of my project was watching my coasters finally get cut out and engraved after all of the work I put into designing them. Creating my coaster holder was the most challenging part of the whole process. Originally I had a different design for the coaster holder, it would've been a box with 3 sides leaving an opening for the odd shapes to hang out of the side, but this didn't end up working out. The measurements meant for my pieces of wood were wrong and the pieces were not able to fit together. The wood for the sides of my coaster holder was also wrapped so the box would've been very difficult to glue together. In the end, the design had to be scrapped and we ended up going with the dowel and the holes in my coasters. If I did this project again I would design a more thought-out coaster holder and create something I was more proud of. Now that my coasters are done I plan to use them to protect my tables from my copious amount of iced coffee.

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