{the final post}

okay--so now that my light has made its debut in class, I can now reveal it on my blog. I absolutely love how it turned out, and is definitely the newest & coolest accessory in my little office. I have had such a wonderful semester in this class--such a great group of people lead by an awesome professor {snaps for Austin!} it makes me sad it is over! until next semester, see you people laterrr.

*sidenote*

So, I am happy to say my final project is COMPLETE {yay} actually, it is sitting next to me all prettily lit up right now as I write this! However, I want it to be a surprise for my class tomorrow--Austin I know you're out there reading this--so I am just going to end tonight with a little side-note instead. This fun little thing happened to me where I became t-shirt chair of my sorority (who would have guessed, right?) Anywho, I got this random key passed down to me along with the new title/position. Come to find out it unlocked this mystery room in my sorority house that I have now converted into my own little studio/secret office. Let me tell you--in a house full of 100 girls, a extra little cubicle is like my own little sanctuary. Of course I added a few fun little touches to make it my own getaway, so I thought you'd like to see at least something fun since I'm not sharing my light until tomorrow. Peace out world..time to get some zzzz's before the final day of class tomorrow...ahh!

a little process work

just some pics of my "lite" in the making!

LIGHT — LITE — LANTERN / Materiality / Immateriality & Design

The fourth and final project challenged myself, as well as my classmates, to construct light sources SOLELY made of paper---oh and with no adhesives, of course. To begin this journey of a project, we started by exploring different types of paper--folded, crumpled, wet, thick, thin, etc. After we made our discoveries here, we proceeded to construct many different "skins" of paper--to develop paper folding techniques. After this we then scaled our folding techniques up, producing many large models to make way toward the final product. With many challenges overcome, I am so pleased with how I grew {design wise} through this project.

THE END {project three}

THE hard work paid off for this journey of a project. From long nights to extensive group and class discussion, the final project proved that every member of my group learned from this experience. Personally, I couldn’t be more pleased with how my group went about interacting with each other, and completing our final piece as a team. I hope that when the pedestrians passed this out front of Watson library, they stopped to take a second to view and think about our creation. I like to think they did though, as it really was an eye catching piece of art. 

IN CONCLUSION, I really enjoyed this project and all the knowledge I gained from it. I definitely think this project and process will benefit my creative abilities as I continue onward in design school.

photo journal.

TO CONSTRUCT a photo journal, our class underwent a short lecture over the art of book making. I began with the basic folds as shown in the lecture, but was very dissatisfied with how simple they were, and how they lacked creativity. I promptly tossed them aside and let my creative juices take over. I constructed a “box book”, where the edges of my box expand to be photos, and the middle expands to reflect the graphics of my process book, with minimal information pulled from it. I had a great time learning about book making and constructing one of my very own. In the end I am quite pleased with how it turned out!

the process.

THROUGHOUT the study of the word obtain, myself & our group overcame many challenging obstacles. To make the process easier to tackle on a large scale, we each individually began the long project by constructing twenty different graphic arrangements of a single word. This gave us the ability to “see” one word many different ways, which came into play when we joined into groups to tackle the large word. From here, we each chose a letter of the word to individually construct to start experimenting with model building. These letters were then transferred to the three-foot scale letters of the final piece.

OUR final concept was collaboratively thought of by brainstorming how “obtain” is used in context. We came to the conclusion that in terms of college students, the majority of the time when one “obtains” is when obtaining information, commonly done at the library. Thus this became the location of our large model.

INSPIRED by the concept of the library, we chose to make our model appear to be a book, to fully engage in the location it would be placed in. To build this, we used many large sheets of cardboard that were scored, folded, cut, bent, painted, and glued. Oh, and a lot of teamwork, too.