visa0150 digital 2d foundation
Created a 3-dimensional acrylic representation of a mini burger using 2-dimensional parts, complete with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and patty. The buns are flat vertically while the ingredients are flat horizontally. Pieces were designed on Adobe Illustrator. See the failed not-cut-through product of the laser cutting (left) and the original Illustrator document (right). Final actually assembled burger coming soon when laser cutter wants to not give me a hard time :')
In his Third Critique (The Critique of Judgment), Immanuel Kant states that:
"In painting, in sculpture, indeed in all the visual arts, including architecture and horticulture insofar as they are fine arts, design is what is essential… The colors that illuminate the outline belong to charm. Though they can indeed make the object itself vivid to sense, they cannot make it beautiful and worthy of being beheld."
My prompt for this project was to prove Kant wrong. I used color as the primary medium in the creation of two works: one using additive color (an RGB document meant for a screen) and another using subtractive color (a CMYK document meant for print).
Used Adobe InDesign to design and construct an 8-page book using only content taken from others, from poems
to Pinterest images to iMessage texts I've received.
I decided to theme my project around gratitude, and I created a pocket-sized zine where each page represented
something small that I am grateful for and want to remember to appreciate. I made most of the designs directly in
InDesign, but used Photoshop for some edits. Then, I organized the pages onto an 8.5x11" size paper to be printed
and folded into the book. Below is the layout for the zine to be printed.
Designed, laser cut, and assembled a 2-panel wooden lantern representing the storyline of making dumplings
in a traditional Chinese household.
I drew out the two designs in Procreate, which my partner then vectorized in Adobe Illustrator (below are the
Procreate drawings and the vectorizations).
We then laser cut these panels and assembled the lantern by layering a translucent white paper behind the carvings. A light was placed inside to illuminate the carvings. See photos below for the assembly process and final result with both a white light and a red light!
