I needed a USB holder that was easy to find on a cluttered desk, and so my main inspiration was tall, easily noticeable buildings. I first made a sketch of a tower-like structure that held the USB drives vertically to take up less horizontal space, and realized that the USB drives could "dock" to the tower like a blimp. This left open space underneath and I thought that it looked cooler.

First I made a circle in the bottom plane, then had to construct a new plane above the circle. In this plane, I could make the base of the square shape that the USB drives would actually dock to. Then I used the "loft" tool to generate a smooth shape joining these two parts, and thickened it to make it a solid body. I extruded the square on top and added ports for docking the USB drives.

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