Polyhedral Packaging

For this project, the class was assigned to use any polyhedral shape and form a certain composition out of one or more shapes. In my first try I had many Hexagonal Prisms that I used as a base. They all came together pretty well and eveyone seemed to the the writing I have done on top. But for the packaging, I wanted to make one package seem collectible to the customers. At first I came up with a hand sanitizing dispenser. The sanitizer will be the kept inside a cartoon-type of body with a big nose. The user will pump the soap onto his hands appearing that it is mucus. My final approach was to create an Adobe Creative Suite packaging. I made hexagonal prisms and in each one, a CD of that software, such as Photoshop CS4, will be placed into the hexagonal prism. If a customer collects all 6 softwares, then they will reveal the secret code on the bottom which is actually the Adobe logo. I also created a promotional ad for the Adobe polyhedral project. The project was very fun to do and I am very pleased with my results and outcome of the project.

Robotic Arm

For this project, the class had to take anything that is recyclable and make something out of it that is wearable. The first couple of things that came to my mind were flashing gloves and glowing shoes. But as I pondered more and more I thought of a robot and how detailed a robots arm is. I did some research online on how I could make it and was unsuccessful because of the sleekness that robots these days have. I started to remember that I have an old Power Mac G4 that no one uses anymore because it is obsolete. So what i did was gut out the entire system and all its parts could be used as parts for the robot arm. I had some trouble disassembling the computer but in the end I was successful. There is two parts to the arm that are atattched by a cable. The arm is wearable and looks almost like a real robot arm.

White Keyblade Design

Reaction Paper

This is my second semester at the University of New Haven and I am ready to continue to learn more assets that will help me toward my future career. I am now in Basic Design II and am working on three-dimensional models more than two-dimensional such as last semester. So far I have worked on two different projects. Our first project was to take a cardboard box and turn it in to a piece of art. The class’s second project was to take any book and make it into a piece of art. Both of the projects could be abstract or inspirational. My favorite project was the cardboard box project.

Before we began the cardboard project, the class watched a small documentary of artist’s that might inspire our work. The documentaries contained different people such as artist designing a park skating rink or a man designing art for a mall. In the beginning I was completely lost in what to do. Then I noticed how the setting in the video game Sonic the Hedgehog looks a lot like cardboard material. So I began sketching out what I think would have been good to make out of cardboard. I was so inspired that it took up the entire page and I was going to need a big box for what I wanted to do. So I went to work and picked up a large box from the storage room, and it also had green in it for the grass so it was perfect. I finished my box project and the class loved it. I called it Green Hill Zone based on the stage from the game Sonic The Hedgehog.
Leading into the book project, the class again watched small documentaries that could inspire our work. One artist that caught my eye was the artist who created a large crack in the middle of the floor of a museum and made it into artwork. She was inspired by her past and the crack had a powerful symbolism to it. This project, like the last one, had me at a standstill and I couldn’t decide on what to do. I thought of animals and the first one that came to mind was a turtle because if you fan the pages, it can sort of make a shell. So I began folding pages to get a good shape of the shell with the book pages. The pages were very thin and there were many so it to a while. I then, cut out the head for the turtle and folded them out of the book so it would stick out of the shell. Then I created feet and a tail for the turtle. The turtle’s name is Marcus.

Both projects were very time consuming and took lots of creativity and brainstorming to complete. The cardboard box was more time consuming because of its size. It is about 3 feet wide and 2 feet long and about a foot high because of the palm trees. I had much more of a fun time making the cardboard piece because of my inspiration in where I got the idea. It brought me back to when I was a little kid playing the game and it made me analyze the stage even more. The book project was also fun because it was cool to create something out of a piece of literature. I think that my creativity comes from inspiration first and then the rest of it is my own fresh ideas.

Marcus the Turtle

Green Hill Zone