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Procrastination

Sleeping Place!

Awkward Sleeping Places

Sleeping on a park bench?
Sleeping on the toilet?
Sleeping in the trunk of a car?
Sleeping in a tree?
Sleeping in a pool?

CAPitalizing

"How many do you need?"
"As many as you have."
The deCAPitated bottles

For my first iteration, I made a decorative candle holder. The idea is for the candle, probably a votive to sit on the bottom blue caps (seen below) and for the light to shine through the translucent caps and also the small spaces between the caps to create a warm glow. The translucent caps can be replaced by opaque caps to create a more dramatic lighting effect by only allowing the light through the top and through the small spaces between the caps.


Oh Yeah.
Eriko's first iteration was a toilet paper roll holder.




The building process
Working hard!
For our collaborative iteration Eriko and I decided to take the decorative aspect of my 1st iteration, and the useful aspect of hers and combine those and make a baby mobile to hang above an infant's crib. We used recycled hangers, the bottle caps, and wire to hang them with. The finished product would probably use recycled fishing wire, plastic, or string instead of the wire for safety reasons. The glue we used on our projects was hot glue in place of EcoBond, an eco-friendly adhesive that adheres plastics.

The Baths of Diocletian

This is my 2x4 project. The assignment was to create a self-sustaining system using an 18-inch piece of wooden 2x4. We had to make no less than 6 cuts, and we had to use all the wood which hadn't been turned into sawdust. We couldn't use any adhesives, screws, or nails.

Mine is very simple, but as you can probably tell from my previous projects, that's my style. I appreciate simple lines, curves, and shapes.

Figures of Speech

We chose as our visual representation for our essay, Figures of Speech, a cow and an Eames Chair because the general theme of our essay was how both designers and non-designers frequently misuse metaphors when describing a visual object or situation. We chose a cow because Caplan states that a metaphor is “for cows to graze in.” He then goes on to say that this is a metaphor for how people use metaphors but don’t understand their “function.” We also chose the Charles Eames chair because it’s something that he mentions as being a good design strategy, so we placed the cow on the chair to show how metaphors are misplaced. Throughout the essay, Caplan mentions several other metaphors which include a “horse’s ass,” a “pimple on a marine’s ass,” as well as icons on a computer.” We chose to place the cow on the Eames chair because this image is as confusing as he described many metaphors to be. This visual representation sums up the article because metaphors are often misused and misplaced.

1st semester

This marks the end of my 2nd semester. everything below this post is from 1st semester.