UNDERGRAD PROJECTS

“Using one of the assigned words (soft, loud, heavy, light, etc.) design a clock that ‘looks’ like the word”: This was the objective for my ‘loud’ clock. Through many iterations and foam models, I crafted a that form lunges forward with bold numbers and a contrasting color palette, thus demanding attention.

During my Photography and Rendering course, one objective was to take a 3D model into Keyshot and create 6 renderings artfully showing the details of the object. I chose a simple, bright environment to display the intricate and colorful details of this vase.

Venture into the user research by designing a common object: a handheld vacuum. After initial market research, we were to create a persona for our design and learn to brand the product for this hypothetical buyer. My persona was a busy graduate student with a small living space, thus needing modularity and cost efficiency.

The goal of this lamp was for it to be made entirely from flat, laser cut materials. My design, the Ori Tower, was designed with a simple tab latching system that emulates ‘little lights’ or windows down the front, as the name suggests.

Using Fusion 360 and Keyshot, I created a tea set comprised of a family of 4 pieces. The objective of this assignment was to create a cohesive and unified looking family of products. Each piece is styalized with high polished metal, bent wood, and rounded organic shapes.

The first few assignments of my Design Principles class were seated in exploring the relationships between lines and planes in space. Through line drawings and black and white blocking I learned to use tension and grouping. And through wire sculptures I learned to activate space on the x, y, and z axis.

Color palettes can change everything about a design. They carry with them certain ideas and attributes. For the color piecing assignment, my class explored analogous, complimentary, split complimentary, and triadic palettes to paint and piece into compelling patterns.

For this assignment we were tasked taking a line drawing and add cross-cutting sections and color that when hand painted simulated transparent layers. For this, I used lines to simulate rays of light cascading from the top of the composition to lure the eye through the piece.

Seasons’ patterns was a challenge is communicating how I experienced the seasons through a repetitive pattern and format. Using the 1” x 1” square constraint, I divided a pattern that could be rotated across the canvas and painted as the seasons changed from autumn to winter to spring; left to right. In Alabama the seasons look quite different from other places. There is an ever-present blue hue from the sky, and the leaves stray a vibrant yellow and green rather than red or orange.