Response to Design Reading

Good design comes in many forms. There are many new things that come out every day, but only a chosen few are considered to be well designed. All the objects that I own vary from the cheaper side to the more expensive side. Things that need to last longer, I am willing to pay more for them. These things include my car, my PlayStation, and my couch to name a few. There are so many decisions that are made when making a big purchase like that. First, have to be drawn in by the way it looks. This it’s the most practical way of making big decisions, but when something is appealing we are more likely to buy it. The reason for that it that good looking design make us feel good. The third article actually states that design is a method of problem-solving. Another thing that contributes to making big purchases is the usability aspect of it. If something will make my life easier, and lasts the test of time, then I will be really excited to buy something. Design is in every part of our lives.

Assignment 2

Game Piece

Ideas and Sketches:

I was inspired by the books/films Harry Potter. These stories are my favorite to read and watch. If I was ever to play monopoly I would always pick a piece that’s related to Harry Potter because it’s so near and dear to my heart. My sister who is nine years younger than me had pretty much nothing in common until she became old enough to become a fan of Harry Potter as well.

Progress:

Creating the wings became a huge challenge that I decided not pursue because of this being a game piece. Instead, I focused on creating the cool engraving. I did this with sketches in sculpt mode. I extruded those sketches and the used the body to cut the sphere. I then pulled out the new cut pieces to create all of the designs. I was a difficult process but it was worth it.

Final:

The final touch I added was the words that were found on the snitch in Harry Potter, ” I open at the close”. I wrote this in harry p font I found online. Then I extruded the letters. I am very happy with this piece!

Project 1

Sketches and Ideas:

When thinking of ideas for the first project I thought about making something with multiple components. I came up with a Harry Potter style windchime, however, the whole team wasn’t on board, so we compromised and came up with this: a windchime idea inspired by Keith Haring

Progress:

I tried to play with different types of heads. Another one that I tried but didn’t take a photo of was a more realistic shaped head with a face, made in sculpt mode. I went with a simple extrude. However, I added the slits where the necklines were in the reference picture. I made those by extruding lines in sculpt mode then cutting away what I didn’t need. The finished result is (above).

The next part was to make the body that was shaped like a layered cake. I first created a plane that would line up with all the pieces. I then created a cylinder and copied it three times and scaled it. Then I took the largest piece and used the pull tool the make the bottom round. The final step was to make it so that the pieces could be glued together when printed separately. I extruded inward to the cylinders so that each piece would have a base to be glued into. The legs was a simple extrusion as well as a copy of one another.

Final:

Artist Statement:

Artist Statement: Keith Haring was an inspirational artist and activist using his art and voice to fight for gay rights in the 1980s, particularly in regards to fighting stigmas related to HIV/AIDs. Even nearly 30 years after his death, Haring’s art is a reminder that people are meant to love each other and be happy, both very important messages in the current shit-show that is the Trump administration. Thus, for our project, we created several pieces that come together to create a wind chime dedicated to Keith Haring and his legacy. Although our chime isn’t very noisy, it is reminiscent of Haring’s ability to step up and make some noise. All change starts with people being vocal about the injustices they undergo, and this is very relevant to our project. Our chime contains references to equality for LGBTQ people, making efforts to ensure love will prevail, as well as cute characters that if nothing else is uplifting. In a time characterized by division and hatred, our project is a reminder to be happy and to spread the love.

Technical:

Building this piece I took bits and pieces from all the tutorial videos from class and created a 3D version of a famous painting. This is one piece of many that will be part of a windmill. To create this piece I sketched everything out in model mode. Next, I extruded the top piece and the leg. The second leg was a cop of the first because I wanted them to be symmetrical. The middle pieces are cylinders that had the top part extruded inward. (The plane tutorial helped me with that part.) The bottom layer got its egg shape from the pull tool.

Fletcher designed the three extruded pieces. They had fun loops and curves. All of the pieces were inspired by paintings. Andrea designed the heart and the people holding it, she used the form tool to create a heart out of a sphere. The people were made in model mode with the extrude tool.

 

 

 

 

Product Design

Design is all around us. Most of the time we don’t recognize that something was designed. Design is only brought to our attention when there is something wrong with it. In the past, everything that was expensive was well crafted and one of a kind. This was until the industrial revolution when many things started to become manufactured in factories. It was much more cost efficient to mass produce simply designed objects.  Around this time the dilemma of buying something nice or buying something cheap came up. People would rather have something nice that something cheap if they had the financial opportunity to choose. This is because we feel good about things that look nice. There are entire professions that revolve around making things look nice. Companies try to strive for their product to look good more so than if the product is functional. The is because when you visit a nice looking website, for example, you awesome everything about the company is good.

Assignment 1

Sketch and Ideas

.I chose to make this tea bag plate because I love to drink tea. I currently don’t have one of these because I don’t like the ones I’ve seen. Tea bag holders are usually very plain and are shaped like teapots. I have an example in my sketches

3D modeling Progress made:

It’s challenging to get the plate to curve the way I want to.

Final:

I added a decal to the wings using a png that I found online. This part makes the wings appear to be more intricate. I used some engraving techniques II learned from tutorials to make it appear that the owl has wings and a beak. The eyes were made using the sculpt tool.