Bottle Caps! everywhere

So we had a nice week long project now that we have finished our fruit pattern projects. This project was to design something that made use of the bottle caps that are very difficult to recycle.

So I teamed up with Robert who sits at the cubicle next to mine, together we both made some ideas including a plant pot, shotglass, and fishing bobbers. We brought them to our lectures Wednesday. Ultimately we decided to go with my idea of an envelope which actually stemmed from an idea I had for a coin roll. Our first model was really just a simple rolled up sheet of paper with bottle caps on the ends to seal it off.

This design posed a few problems as it really didnt protect the letter and also it seemed easy for the caps to just fall off. Therefore we took the design and tweaked it a little bit.
This caused it to change over to a protective shell made out of a sheet of thick paper that generally comes out of a shirt's packaging. This would insure a protective shell around the letter. We also added some yellow rings (also from soda bottles) so that an address label could be secured to the envelope and then it could actually be sent.