Project 4: Product Design
Photography Project 3: Self Portrait
In this assignment, the student is required to photography themselves or other people, then be able to relate the photo to yourself. In this photo, I attempt to show the different shades of myself, which I believe to be something lost in translation hence the blurred effect. I believe I do have my negative, lighter, tempered, and dull, sides to myself.
3D Modular Constructs
In this assignment, the student is required to construct several 3D module using plywood. This module must be enclosed and must include creative though and careful thinking.
The first step to making these designs involves plywood, which would then be laser cut into shapes of our choosing. These shapes would then be sanded and glued with wood glue. After that, the glued modules are to be painted with Gesso and sanded again to ensure smoothness and percision. These modules are then documented In three separate environments.
The first environment is the interaction with people. I’ve decided to choose only one person and a tutor specifically to assist me. At first I was going to photograph a different student but I wanted to capture a different atmosphere from someone else.
The second illustration is from a fictional environment, so of course I tried to keep this as unrealistic as possible. Note: the lack of shadows were intentional.
The third depicts the modules in nature, which feels very abstract in terms of appeal.
“I Loved Candy” (11/30/18) Research Poster 18×24
In this assignment, the student is required to brainstorm many different themes that the student may use in their 18×24″ research composition. Choosing that one theme, the student is then supposed to create a medley of different aspects into one composition while sticking with said composition.
When brainstorming the many different ideas, I took into consideration of what I could work with the most. Video games being the second most, but the design would be as tacky and generic a plenty of other people who may have designed something similar to what I could have done.
For the design, I chose candy mainly due to its unique and colorful appearance, then taking it into a somewhat dark tone or worn out appearance. Using darker than normal colors, I was able to bring out the dreariness of the typography within my composition. My concept is meant to reflect the overall mentality of candy and how we as people grow with it as well as see it in our daily lives. For the typography itself, most candy brands use this to navigate through its consumers, so I took that and made it a lot less important as it should while retaining some type of its importance and flow. What I hoped to achieve in this design is a new type of “experiment” or playing with my perception things and showing it in such a way that it forms something that personifies authenticity creativity. What fails, however, is the ability to retain an in-depth analysis of my topic and using more that show that candy means a lot more than just logos and diversity.
“Endangered Animal Phenakistoscope” (12/8/18)
In this assignment, the student is required to study the phenakistoscope, which an old style of animation. The topic of our design is supposed to be based around our previously used endangered animal and the animal is supposed to evoke movement. Being my first time making this form of animation, I can say it was difficult, but I was able to achieve at least some form of movement within the endangered animal. However, what lacks in this design is the overall composition and execution of the animation. What could work a lot better in the composition is the lack of assets being featured in the design. As for the design itself, the eyes are meant to represent a snow tiger, which is one of the many threats of the red panda. As for the red panda itself, I wanted to show a top view of the red panda which is meant to evoke curiosity as it looks towards the snow tiger’s wandering eye. The bamboo in the outermost rim of the composition is meant to evoke security towards the red panda which is wandering outwards from the bamboo and into the threat.
Final Project: Lino Lago Finished Product
The final print product of the design.
The illustration portion done in oil pastel and in colored pencil. The goal was to obscure some portions and incorporate photography in other portions.
