Week 11: Drafting Lamp Designs

This week we discussed our next,possibly last, project for this class, designing and manufacturing a lamp out of either cardboard or ply wood. Working from what we did last week, we took into account the shapes and builds of the cardboard structures we made last week, we worked on designing possible lamp designs for later weeks. These are my results.

Craft: For this assignment, we continued on from the previous week in constructing with cardboard with the cardboard structures. This time, we returned to good old drafting. Our craft supplies was paper and a pencil.
Composition: The composition for this week was fairly simple. We had to come up with ten different lamp designs, each incorporating aspects of silhouettes, lighting and shadows in a way that will convey a story or meaningful message. Once we came up with the designs, we drafted them out. I did mine roughly with estimated sizes. Once I did so, with the help of the teacher, I then thought of a concept and way to convey that message. That led me to this rough draft of my lamp.
Concept: The concept of this project was fairly straightforward, create basic drafts of what we learned in previous weeks and understand their use for when you're drafting the lamps. We then had to think of a way to meaningfully use shadow and silhouettes to form a story or message. Mine is the life cycle of a chicken from egg to chicken or vice versa.

Week 10: Cardboard Shape Construction

This week we discussed our next,possibly last, project for this class, designing and manufacturing a lamp out of either cardboard or ply wood. But before we can draft our lamp designs, our professor has made it a point for us to design ways to create basic shapes out of Cardboard. This way, we can better anticipate what the challenges will be when we do draft our lamps out. These are my results.

Craft: For this assignment, we continued on from the previous week in constructing with cardboard. Unlike the previous few weeks, we have returned to using physical tools to draft and manufacture modules and materials for easier use. This week, we used the same materials as we did last time constructing the abstract cardboard structures. We used a cutting mat, a utility knife or box cutter, ruler, adhesives, cardboard, pencil.
Composition: Much like the previous week, we had precut cardboard strips and panels, which we cut ourselves. We then worked with our knoves and rulers to cut out the desired shapes such as circles for cylinders and triangles for cones and pyramids. For the circuits, what I did was use a roll of tape to form the outline with a pencil and then I cut it out slowly to form the bases. In general, the process was cut the shapes and slots out, tape them or insert them into one another and presto! We're done. The hardest part was imagining and drafting out the way the pieces would fit together. Once that was accomplished, the rest was easy.
Concept: The concept of this project was fairly straightforward, create basic shapes and understand their use for when you're drafting the lamps.

Week 9: Cardboard Structures

So this week we began to work on a new project and materials, cardboard. We were charged with creating plant-like structures made of modules of cardboard Here are my results of my work.

Craft: For this assignment, we returned to physical work. We worked with sheets of cardboard and cutting knives. Ww used cutting mats and rulers as well to manage the cuts to be straight and clean.
Composition: This week, we worked on cutting paper into strips 1x0.5 inches. Once we did, we scored them using the cutting knife in a percise way to just cut the top layer of the corregated cardboard. After doing that in one inch intervals, we then folded them into shapes. Some of us did triangles. I did pentagons because of their larger size and ability to attach multiple shapes to them. Using tape, I formed the shapes which would now be used as modules, uniform units to construct my stucture. Once the modules were done, we then proceeded to link the modules together to form a structure with tape and other adhesives. Another part of this project that was there to throw us off were wildcards, modules and variants that were different than the uniform modules we needed to utlize. I used a larger version of the modules, triangles and skored strips.
Concept: We were told to have no concept besides having it take up space and make space.