05/30: I finished the luminary. Once the film was dry I glued the four panels and held them together with rubber bands.
Upload date 5/1/23
05/29: I cut out the panels and sanded them. The first time I cut them, two of the panels did not work because there were extra boxes around certain parts which made them separate from the main section. When I was cutting the broken parts again, I forgot to set the thickness for the laser cutter which resulted in the lines being thicker than usual. Luckily, I did not have to recut them but I did notice that on the panels I cut the second time (when I made the error), some of the thinner sections were extremely fragile since the wood in the middle had been burned off. This made sanding a bit more difficult but in the end, it was fine. After I finished that, I measured them for the dimensions, which I used to cut the film. I then glued the film onto the back of the panels.
Upload date 6/1/23
CW/HW 05/25: I finished the design on Illustrator and am ready to cut out the panels once I make the joinery.
Upload date 6/1/23
CW/HW 05/23: I finished most of the designs. The first and third panels have similar designs on the bottom, except the small diamonds in the middle are placed differently. The second and fourth panels have shapes drawn on the bottom. I used the pencil tool to draw them and had some difficulty with making them how I wanted since I was drawing with my touchpad.
Upload date 5/29/23
CW/HW 05/22: I made the four panels and finished the middle design, which is a curved diamond shape that continues throughout the panels. I also worked on the bottom design for one of the panels which is the base/inspiration for the rest of them.
Upload date 5/29/23
I gave the desktop organizer to my housemate and they put it on their desk. In the top section, they put some pens and pencils and used the middle open section for small decor. In the bottom drawer, they put a few accessories.
CW/HW 05/20: To clearly differentiate between the negative and the positive in the design, I made the positive parts blue in Illustrator. This design took a while since it was completely new (while I did base it off of my previous one). It was somewhat difficult to use Illustrator since it was different from Fusion, but after creating some basic designs I was able to grasp the tools needed to make this panel. The curved parts on top are not completed, as I have not decided on how many I want to include yet. They will continue between the diamond chains onto the next panels. The curved diamonds, taken from the previous design, will also be continuous.
Images uploaded 5/18/23
May 18 HW & CW missing – Work on luminary design in Fusion
May 16 HW & CW missing – Work on luminary design in Fusion
HW 05/15: This was my original design for the luminary—the curvy line on top would have been connected between the four panels, and the curved diamonds in the middle would have as well. This clearly did not work so I had to scrape this design and start a new one based off of it.
Image upload date 5/18/23
HW 05/11: This was my very first design. I wanted to use a tree divided into two panels and have a branch that extended through all four sides. Eventually I decided that this design was not practical, because in order for the branches to look like branches they would have to be very thin, which would be extremely fragile. It was also difficult to make the branches (and lines in general) curved on Fusion, which is why I switched to Illustrator.
Image upload date 5/18/23
CW 05/11: As a finishing touch, I put rubber feet on the bottom corners of my desktop organizer so that when put on a flat surface (such as a wooden desk), it wouldn’t slide while opening the drawers. They worked very well.
May 9 HW & CW missing – Translate hand-drawing into Fusion sketch
CW 05/03: I finished the desktop organizer and made sure the drawer worked. It did. I then made a few more sketches for the luminary.
May 3 HW missing – select the design you think is most successful and develop it further with additional sketches.
CW 05/02: I finished gluing together my project, so now I am just waiting for the glue to dry.
May 2 HW missing – Sketch a minimum of 2 original luminary compositions.
CW 05/01: I finished staining the other side of my pieces and will move on to gluing them together next class.
HW 05/01: I made 6 concept sketches for the new luminary project.
HW 04/30: Due to the long line for the laser cutter, it took a while for me to cut my parts with etching. I also had an issue with making sure the dxf files included the fillet parts I wanted for the sides but that was resolved when I used the “project” tool to revise the sketches. I finished cutting the parts and sanded them as well. I also put it together without glue to make sure the parts fit together correctly, which they did. I then moved on to staining the pieces.
Apr 27 CW missing – Fabricate desktop organizer, no homework
Apr 25 CW missing – Fabricate desktop organizer, DXF files due
Images uploaded 5/1/23
HW 04/19: I finished the desktop organizer and found designs to put on it. I used a vectorizer AI to change the pictures into vectors. I had some difficulty with one design because it was what my housemate wanted on the desktop organizer, but it had watermarks on it. To solve this problem, I used another AI tool to remove the watermarks.
Apr 18 CW missing – Fabricate desktop organizer, no homework
Apr 17 CW missing – Fabricate desktop organizer, no homework
Apr 13 HW & CW missing – Work completed on 3D computer model
Apr 11 CW missing – Work completed on 3D computer model
HW 04/11: I finished the main parts of the desktop organizer, including the joinery. I still need to figure out how to personalize it.
Apr 6 CW missing – Work completed on 3D computer model
image uploaded 4/11/23
HW 04/06: I finished most of the desktop organizer, but had some trouble with the drawer joinery.
Image uploaded 4/6/23
HW/CW 04/04: I worked on the pencil box and made most of the 3D model.
Apr 4 CW missing – Work completed on 3D computer model
Apr 3 CW missing – Work completed on 3D computer model
Apr 3 HW missing – Paragraph on how feedback is used
image uploaded 4/6/23
CW 03/30: I started working on the 3D model of the desktop organizer. I made the back and the bottom parts.
Image uploaded 3/30/23
CW 03/28: I started working on the low resolution cardboard version of the desktop organizer and finished most of it, including the drawer. I still need to cut out and glue the inner dividers.
HW 03/28: Taking my housemate’s requests into mind, I created 6 different sketches for the desktop organizer.
CW 03/27: I wrote a paragraph with a problem statement and some details on how my housemate wants the organizer to look.
For this project, my housemate’s problem is that she has many items cluttered on her desk, making it very difficult to organize the rest of the desktop and find specific objects. As a solution, I am making her a desktop organizer for her stationery so that she has more space for textbooks and electronics. It will include several sections for pens, pencils, and similar pieces plus a section for more irregularly shaped items like Post-It notes, tape, and AirPods. My housemate wants the organizer to be sage green, and designed in a minimal style. She wants a few bigger compartments, as opposed to many smaller compartments. Accordingly, she also wishes for functionality to take priority while also matching the organizer’s aesthetic to the room’s.
HW 03/27: I interviewed my housemate with the questions I previously wrote about the pencil box and what she wants it to look like.
- Why do you want a pencil box?
- Have lots of stationery, nowhere to put them
- What are you looking for in a pencil box?
- Organization
- Section for pens, another one for pencils
- Look aesthetic
- What are you planning on putting in the pencil box?
- Everyday pens and pencils
- Other stationery items
- Scissors, tape, highlighters, markers, etc.
- What style would you like the pencil box to be? Any particular colors, aesthetics, or styles?
- Sage green
- Minimalist style
- Possible patterns on outside surfaces
- How often will you use this pencil box?
- Every day
- Will stay on desk permanently
- How much do you want the pencil box to hold? Are you expecting to put all of your stationery in it?
- Holds most stationery
- Approx. 20 pens and pencils (possibly more)
- What matters more—performance/functionality or aesthetics?
- Both
- Highly functional but still fits with room aesthetic
- How long do you intend to use this pencil box for?
- Until it breaks
CW 03/23: Today for homework (since I wasn’t able to be in class) I read about how to use interviews for design thinking and generated eight questions to determine how I will go about making the pencil box.
- Why do you want a pencil box?
- What are you looking for in a pencil box?
- What are you planning on putting in the pencil box?
- What style would you like the pencil box to be? Any particular colors, aesthetics, or styles?
- How often will you use this pencil box?
- How much do you want the pencil box to hold? Are you expecting to put all of your stationery in it?
- What matters more-performance/functionality or aesthetics?
- How long do you intend to use this pencil box for?
Pencil Case:
Phone Stand:
LED Lamp:
CW 02/23: I reconstructed the pencil box because the previous one had issues with the base lining up with the other parts.
HW 02/23: I made both sides of the pencil box.
HW 02/22: I added details to the design and remade the base, which took a while since it needed to be one piece.
HW 02/21: I started my own pencil box design. I plan to make two square sections on the left and right, then add something else in the middle.
HW 02/13: I made all 4 sides and the base of the pencil case, but ran into a problem when extruding the base.
CW 02/02: I finished the LED lamp.
CW 12/12: I used the joint tool to attach the lower arm sides to the upper arm using the circular disks. I also made the disk with two smaller holes inside for different wires.
HW 12/12: I created the sketch for the lower arm side and made two metal disks to attach the lower arm to the upper arm.
CW 12/7: In class, I worked on transferring my sketches for the upper arm side and upper arm horizontal to a flash drive and using the laser cutter.
CW 12/6: In class, I added rectangular and circular holes to my upper arm design. I duplicated the sketch for my upper arm by using perpendicular joint points and hinging the second part from the original. Then I made the distance between my two designs 0.94in apart.
HW 12/6: I duplicated one side of the upper arm of the lamp to create the other side. I first copied and pasted the side we made in class and then added two joints to connect them. Then, I set the distance between them to be 0.52in. I double-checked this by measuring the distance between two farther points on the top of the circular section, which turned out to be 0.94in.
HW 12/5: I created the upper arm of the lamp. I first drew two circles, with diameters of 0.6in and 1.5in respectively. Then I set the distance between them to be 13.75in. I created two lines between the circles and made the first one connected to the top of the circles. Finally, I trimmed the parts of the circles that were in between the two lines. Although I had some difficulty matching the lines to the circles, it was ultimately fine.
