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Band-saw Box

For my third project of the semester (Intro to Design), we had to create a band-saw box designed to hold an item that had significance to us.

I chose a canning funnel, more because of its symbolic meaning to me, than other types of value. It has meaning to me, because I used to try hard not to fit into traditional gender roles. Over the years however, I realized that the stereotypes of enjoying cooking, care-giving and taking care of a home actually really fit me.

I guess there is a more complex layer to this project, because I was using woodworking tools, which is traditionally a male-dominated pastime. I really enjoyed making it though, and I was really satisfied with how it turned out!

Chair Drawing

For our second project of the semester, I had to create a chair out of cardboard. Lets just say, it didn't turn out so well! During the class critique the teacher had a girl sit on it and it broke right then and there!

My drawing of the chair turned out better, luckily. I had to create a drawing of the chair in an environment. I created a line drawing on the computer, then printed it out and added value with pencil.

Photo-collage

For this collage I combined 70+ photographs to create one large, surreal image.

The subject focuses on the labor dispute between First Management and a labor union.

CARdboard

The lengths (8 feet to be exact) I go to in the name of design education...
Thanks Dad!

Little boy's jacket

Lantern Final

Lantern Project, more prototypes

Thrift Store Takeover!

This music video is hilarious! Anyone who has ever spent much time in thrift stores should watch this music video by Seventeen Evergreen called "Polarity Song" (found via I Heart Papyrus)

Lantern Prototype

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EXTEND Group Project: Construction

We had to create letters that were 3 feet in height in Futura font, so we projected them onto the wall and traced them. To illustrate extend, we made each letter progressively deeper. The "e" was 1 foot deep and the d was 3.5 feet deep, with each letter in between increasing half a foot. All in all we used about 10 rolls of duct tape.