Bench For Strangers
This semester's assignment aimed to create a bench for two strangers or two friends. My partner and I investigated chairs and used human measurements to create a bench solely out of cardboard with minimum glue. This project was done entirely by hand without the use of 3D modeling software.
Inhabitable Stairs
This project focuses on utilizing stairs beyond transportation between floors. So, I created a staircase inviting people to walk between aquirmes. The latus structure allows aquamarines of different sizes to fit between the latus slots. Each aquamarine pierces through the latus, allowing an overhang. The bottom contains a waterfall that moves water between aquamarines, allowing greenery like lily pads to grow. As you go up the stairs, you go under and over different producing aquamarines. Moving you in and around the fish. So, it creates a feeling of swimming with the fish.
A Small Space
This semester's assignment aimed to teach the importance of line weight while investigating living in a small space. I choose a small, livable sailboat to explore how to maximize space. This detailed drawing style and investigation of complex spaces were used as research to inform the housing units we designed during the rest of the semester.
Design For Rebellion
Do You Like to Vote? Now Make it Matter!
This project was made to promote students to register to vote through an innovative strategy. So, my team focused on the idea that all individuals like to vote of unimportant matters like dogs or cats. So, I designed theses fliers to trick people to vote on dogs or cats. After scanning the QR code it will lead the person to register to vote. If they like to vote on something unimportant, then they should love to vote on something important like the up-coming election. This project shows the power of design to encourage a change! Even through a trickster tactic, we can bring attention to how much people love their voices heard.
Eat Bar
"Eat Bar" is a satire video about diet culture. I created an ad that promotes vaping as a healthy way to stay skinny. I use satire through promoting the vape as an energy alternate and had actor's workout while hitting their vape. Juxtaposing heathy habits like working out with vaping uses satire to bring attention to the harms of vaping ignored by society. This is the graphic I created promoting vaping that is used in the video. I wanted to use trending design elements of Y2K to relate to my targeted audience of college and high school students. I created this with Illustrator and Photoshop.
Zine: why ART matters
Shackles of Femininity
Tasked to create a subversive fashion object to bring power to underrepresented groups. So, I created a veil and gloves for women to bring power by bringing recognition to societal expectations that are inflicted upon women. In addition, I want to break the silence around societal expectations of women.
For this project, I thought about everything that keeps women married to male societal expectations. Marriage and veils have historically been known to mean purity and modesty as they provide coverage of the bride's face. I wanted to reveal the unspoken requirements expected of women of all ages. So, the bottom layer of the veil contains Barbies. At a young age, girls are taught body expectations by males through Barbie. The next layer is tampons and pads to highlight the silence around women's periods. The third layer highlights the female healthcare system. Mainly the use of overmedication or the expectation that all women are anxious or need weight loss medication to achieve perfection. The final layer is the push for women to be on birth control, which has lots of side effects. While birth control is essential to be accessible, many women are on it simply because of new laws surrounding abortion or since men don’t want to do their part in safe sex. Through this veil, I am subverting societal expectations for women to be considered perfect and pure through control of the male society. Many of these products are taboo and unspoken in society. The gloves refer back to marriage and purity as well as bondage, as they are restrictive. The project was connected with staples and the shape reflects compartments that highlight each stage of the woman's life and get larger towards the bottom, which is the foundational layer. Plastic brings attention to the unspoken shackles of women and brings power to women by bringing attention to silenced feminine products. Especially many of these products, like pills and tampons, are hidden private objects. Body expectations, the push of medication, the silence of feminine products, and the purity expected of women create the shackles of femininity.
Digital Media
Gesamtkunstwerk
The Assignment was to recreate the Piazza d'Italia digitally. Then using Adobe Photoshop, mimic the precedent “Fala Atelier, Chicago Kiosk Series, 2015”
Worm’s Eye Perspective
Using the same combined plan of several precedent buildings. I 3D modeled it from a worm’s eye perspective. Then using Rhino 7, I added hatches and entourage.
Bird’s Eye Perspective
Combined plans of several precedent buildings. Then I 3D modeled it from a bird’s eye perspective. Finally, I used Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to add color and overlay patterns.
Copy Cat
Digitally rendered bathroom using Rhino 7 and Adobe Photoshop. Assignment was to copy the style of “Hesselbrand, Rooms Without Function, Home Economics, Venice Biennale, 2018” and continue the view.
Digitally Drawn Purse, Fish Jar,
& Statue
Tulane University has many collections of items on display or in storage. For example, Tulane University owns the biggest fish collection in the world. So, we were tasked to research collections and pick three artifacts to draw digitally. This assignment requires practicing skills in Rhino 3D and line weights importance. I learned how to make two-dimensional objects appear three-dimensional with hatching. We are digitally creating our own collections of artifacts.
Architecture Studio
Textile Project
For this project, I focused on diagraming the different linear and horizontal qualities of the woven fabric. I identified shapes and patterns then selected three different areas of the woven fabric to recreate 3 dimensionally with cardboard. I explored different techniques when working with the cardboard to recreate the fabric texture.
Just For Fun
