metamorphosis

I thought this was a very interesting project. At first I didn't know where to go with this project bu then me and tommy and talked and that really helped me. I morphed them together on their joinery. The middle one is a mixture of being held together with both bending and string.

A place for a memory?

This was by far the hardest project. This one was very frustrating to me. This was my first time working with plastic and it was very hard to cut. I started off with using plastic tubes that were curved. My first iteration was a disaster, it wouldn't even stand upright. My second iteration was much better. I used hard plastic tubes and cut them with a saw to descending heights. It reminded me of a clear emerald city, which was not what i was going for. My final one was the most frustrating, I couldn't figure out how to make the plastic stay together. I finally melted the plastic strips to a base. My memory was reaching for a wind chime. The tallest strip is much more steep than all the other heights and very wobbly. I did this on purpose to show how strained and off balance you are when you're really reaching.

Z.I.N.E.

This is my zine. I tried to leave a lot of blank space so you would only concentrate on the product and the text. I made the text red because I thought it would make your eye go right to the text. I wanted the text read before you looked at the picture. I did my zine on product design. These were my ten favorites. There were so many awesome products out there it was hard to choose.

2 page layout

This is my 2 page spread. I like my idea of dividing up th page and using a lot of black. I tried to use the black and white areas as the place your eyes could rest. I added small text at the bottom of each picture to explain what was going on. I wrote in white on the black because i wanted it to look natural and crafted, not printed off a computer. Unfortunately some glue bled through th paper so there are small little smudges. Also I feel that the gold overpowers the entire image. I was hoping the huge black slab would balance it out, but I don't think it does.

Welcome to the dark side

This was a really fun piece. I really like the dramatic shadows and that most of my face is in the dark. I like how mysterious it looks. o_O

Pencil Box

This is the fold out with the pencils from the side.
This corner was made using scoring. I really like this technique because it makes your corners look very clean and precise.
This was one of my many lids. I'm glad I went back and cleaned up the lid and made the cuts thinned and cleaner.





This is my pencil box. I had numerous ideas come to me at first, but I really liked the fold out/accordian idea best. It displays the pencils very well and each pencil as it's own slot. I chose black and white because I thought that made it look very crisp. The only problem is that white gets dirty very easily. My favorite is the black striped paper. I cut rectangles into the top to give it some depth. The hardest part was making those cuts very clean. I designed the box to look boring on the outside so when you open it and get a fold out it's a complete surprise. I like things that are hidden and require attention to find out its secrets.

2 more profiles

Here are two more profiles i did. i feel pretty consistent in my work. I still need to work on getting the likeness of the person in my profiles though.