The Goalscorer
When looking back in a time of my life that I remembered and treasured with fondness, I always think about my time playing soccer. In youth/junior games, it is a fun experience of team bonding, making friends and discovering an active lifestyle. Playing soccer is one of the best things I do, and many feel the same way – where it is an activity that they want to remember.
I have come up with The Goalscorer, a product that keeps track, and remembers all of a player’s soccer season, where at the end it creates a physical representation of this time. It is aimed at players from about 7 – 12 years old.
After doing research, I concluded that the average amount of soccer games played at this age is 16. This correlates well with the fact that a soccer ball is made of 32 hexagonal and pentagonal panels. I decided to make the shape of The Goalscorer a half-a-soccer-ball shape. This meant that the user can psychologically make up the rest of the ball, and also means the product can easily be placed on a table or hung on a wall. After multiple seasons, the soccer player can have one for each, and they can all stack next to each other.
The Goalscorer works where it originally comes as an ‘empty’ frame of a soccer ball. As players play a season, for each game they play, they put a panel onto the frame. For a win - gold, a draw – silver, and a loss – bronze. The placed panels then make up a finished looking soccer ball. These colours have been chosen as they are similar to trophy colours, so no matter if a soccer team has a bad season, it still looks like a trophy of the season at the end. If a player misses a game etc, the panel is left blank, representing they didn’t play. Overall at the end of the season, they have a product that is a visual representation of this, allowing them to easily treasure what they have achieved.
Furthermore, the individual panels can be engraved or written on, where the date, teams and score of a match can be placed, so that the memory is further enhanced. Teams could even sign a finished Goalscorer, so the individual player can remember them as well.
Treasuring time is very important, and The Goalscorer allows this to be achieved very easily, where the owner can look back at a season or time of there life at ease.
5 comments:
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Your product is very ideal for this assignment, because it would look good with few panels on the frame, or all filled up, and would be something to look forward to and continuously interact with for the consumer. Maybe think of alternatives to engraving since the consumer can range to people with less money, a possible option is stickers with the teams emblem/logo on it.
Your concept of keeping a record of a soccer season is a pretty good one, for a child it gives them a sense of achievement otherwise not met if they didn't get a medal or a trophy. One thing I like about this product is that it is interactive in ways, like the child, or parent could add to and complete the form throughout the season. The final touch whereby the team could sign the product really makes it come to life as though it was a signed ball from a famous team. Getting the panels engraved is also a pretty nice touch, I suggest you look at etching where perhaps you could etch the team logo onto the panels.
I think that you can experiment on different colours for the framework as the blue looks somewhat awkward when paired with the bronze, silver and gold.
But overall I like your concept.
this is a very interesting design, i like the concept behind the soccer ball becoming the trophy and how you can record diffrent wins, draws and losses. I think that the ball should be a bit smaller, because if you had played a few years of soccer all the trophies would take a alot of space.
i like the use of a soccer ball as an ornamental object the only thing is it would be a bit of a bummer if you didnt score any goals!
I like the idea of using an object associated with a game and thus a time of your life were you enjoyed yourself. This object...a soccer ball....is a ornamental object that you associate with and by using each face of of the ball to record seasons and achievements is a very clever and interesting way of completing this task. Though my only concern would be how a child would feel of recording a negative season?
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