#or altered it so that joker wasn't viable for it

[nerdpoe]

Whenever I read anything in comics or in fanfic about "we can't kill the Joker because that would be doing what he wants, we have to let the law take care of him" I just. giggle.

He's shown multiple times premeditation, which indicates he does, in fact, understand the consequences of his actions. By law, he is mentally fit enough to stand trial.

By law, he would more than likely be sentenced to death, many many times over, after being branded a terrorist. He wouldn't even be housed in New Jersey, he'd be sent to someplace like Guantanamo Bay, ultra secure max prison. His execution would be sped up due to flight risk. It would happen out of sight and out of mind, in a glass box so that weird chest bomb of Joker Gas doesn't affect anyone, and then incinerated.

This is comicbookland, so that doesn't happen, but like, if this was the direction Joker's court cases were supposed to go, and it was an assistance program run by Wayne Enterprises that kept stepping in and using legal fuckery to get Joker to Arkham instead of standing trial?

All it would take is just. One little sign off from Barbara. One little tweak.

Joker isn't eligible for that outreach program anymore.

#batman #joker #story prompt i guess #lol #i just think it'd be funny with batman being like #“well i can't condone death but also like the state declared it through valid legal proceedings” #i know it's comicbooklogic that stops joker from standing trial and not an outreach program #because if it was an outreach program barbara would have absolutely destroyed it #or altered it so that joker wasn't viable for it #i don't care about the discourse of “but joker is the best villain for batman!” #no he's not DCU is just too lazy to come up with an actual replacement

[ryanmillerprocess]

Cardboard/Paper Pack-age Design

February 5, 2024

This assignment tasks me with coming up with a sustainable package design that serves its intended purpose, as well as an additional purpose. The intended goal is to make us think of designing a better future that isn't full of pretty garbage.

I wanted to pursue a packaging design in something I would actually use. My first thought was video game cases. I play a lot of video games, and over the years I have amassed a collection of plastic cases that sit in a box in a storage unit. I thought of replacing the plastic case with a cardboard one that contains the disk on one side, and the other can unfold into either a game manual or a poster.

My second idea came from my families love of card games. Growing up, most card games I would play required you to discard the Jokers from the deck, but now that I'm older and can comprehend more complex rules, the Jokers are back in. So I thought, why not make the box out of the 2 most optional cards in the deck? The front and back of the box would tear off to become the Jokers while the rest of the box could fold into a holder for the remainder of the deck.

Following this line of thinking, I lead myself to music. For the last decade of my life, I have spent most of my days with a tune on my lips and an earbud in my ear. I have since adopted the over-ear headphone lifestyle, which has introduced a more engrossing and higher quality listening experience, however I often struggle with finding a place to leave them. I have been known to use the adjustable branch of a floor lamp, a banister, and the edge of my coffee table to store them. Although these alternatives work fine for a short time, it would be much easier to have a dedicated spot for easy access and safe storage. After a brief research session I have concluded that my proposed design is not only sustainable, multi-purpose, and incredibly clever, but it will also push the world of headphone packaging into a new-age.

My proposed design will allow for headphone users to take their brand new headphones fresh out of the box, and quickly fold said box into a stand so they can proudly display them for all to see.

February 7, 2024

I spent this class researching the top headphone brands, their products, and their sustainability practices. I found that Bose, Sony, and Sennheiser are striving for a sustainable future. Sony and Sennheiser have fully recyclable packaging, but I could not find the same for Bose.

February 12 + 14, 2024

After spending too much time staring at different boxes and researching headphone brands on the computer, I decided to finally try and make a box.

My first attempt at making a box was a successful experiment. I started with cheap paper and the memory of how a box might go together. I took the measurements from the headphones I currently own and then created a template at half the size to see if my vision was a viable option.

My first layout went surprisingly well, however there were obvious changes to be made. Most obviously, a door for the bottom section.

With those alterations in mind, it was time to make another template.

I was happy with how this test worked out so I made a few more adjustments and decided to go bigger.

February 19-23, 2024

Family week was productive for me! I put together the first full sized prototype, marked down the adjustments that needed to be made, and began making paper (more on that at the end).

The cardboard I used had a fold in it that I, unfortunately, could not avoid, so I had to improvise with two support struts on the outside of the box. a few of the fixes to be made were shorter lower supports so the muffs wouldn't touch the cardboard, as well as moving the lower door. I liked the idea of keeping that attached to the cover of the box, but it wasn't a functional choice.

February 26+28, 2024

After the deconstruction of prototype 1, it was time for the second.

After making a new template in Adobe Illustrator, I went back to the cardboard and knife.

Along with a new layout, I came up with the idea of using Velcro to increase the potential of reuse. This turned out horribly. I didn't consider the width of the Velcro in the template so the bottom of the box was entirely unstable and threw off the integrity of the stand. Although this box was already a failure, I pressed on to see what I could learn about the stand.

That too was a failure, but I was happy with where the muffs were compared to the lower supports. I ended up learning a lot from this prototype, and was excited to move on and implement the changes in the next one.

March 4+6, 2024

Prototype 3 was a whirlwind of emotion. I chose a new material to work with, Illustration board, because it is thinner, feels more solid, and is clean and white for that extra elegance factor.

Before I could get to cutting, I had to make a new template that included the changes that needed to be made.

This new template included a color coded system to help guide me in what needed to be done and where. Orange was box, green was the stand structure, blue is glue, red is Velcro. The changes were minor for this iteration, but they improved the design substantially. The black lines were indents for the stand to slot into, and the door for the bottom was moved to the bottom. I chose to make the front of the box fully detachable in hopes that it would increase the reusability of the box. (this kind of turned out to be pointless.)

When putting this box together, I cut too deep while scoring in some areas, so some parts ripped (which was a huge bummer). I got really disheartened at this point because the culmination of hours of work was a bunch of pieces of a box that wasn't supposed to be in pieces. After a brief moment of self-reflection I pushed through the disappointment and learned what I could.

I discovered that the small supports combined with the new indents was enough to keep the stand from shifting and allowed for the top to fold smoothly to hold the headphones.

Although the box originally fell apart, I wanted to know if the box would actually work so I recut, and put it back together. It worked, and I finally felt like I might have been in a place I was happy with.

I then thought of a completely different design that could potentially allow for complete reusability of the box. The wonderful thing about this design is that I could reuse my old template to create the new one.