In our second project, we were tasked with creating both a man-made item (mouse) and a natural item (shell) out of three different materials — clay, foam, and paper, ultimately aiding the creation of a “hybrid” form—the intersection of the forms of both the mouse and shell. …

Part 3 Prompt: create a stop-motion animation that speaks to the relationship between the animals and their environment, with a focus on the behavior of your animal. Scarred from the long nights figuring out how to work Adobe Illustrator, now we face a new, even more, daunting task: figuring out…

Prompt: Use found and reclaimed packaging—plastic containers you’ve collected—to create your animal. The second part of the animal project was to create our animal from plastic waste—paying specific attention to the curves and shape of the plastic to imitate the form and proportions of our animal. When introducing the project…

*Some pictures are JPEGS exported from illustrator and medium messed with the original colors. To start the semester, we were introduced to our first project: to create a composition with an assigned animal on Ai, paying special attention to visual hierarchy and composition. I was assigned to the Gulf of…

With the first semester coming to an end, our final project was to create a lighting engine that “ produce[s] and modulate[s] light for personal use in the context of the first year design studio”. Lights—specifically lamps— are always something I have taken for granted and never thought twice about…

Project prompt: How to score, fold, and cut paper stocks of different weights, with an emphasis on techniques that are appropriate to the materials. Coming into this project, I have no idea what we are supposed to be tasked with doing or the result — with intersections and the cardboard…

Part 1: Experimentation Having carefully come out of the last project injury-free from using Xacto knives, never would I have thought that my first injury at CMU would be from holding cardboard — not even cutting it. …

Week 1 — Getting accustomed It is 6:30 AM. Rain is coming down hard, and it is as if there is a small creek running along the side of the road. Coming from the Bay Area and having never experienced rain this big, I was excited to take photos of the intersection in the pouring…