Month: November 2019

Written reflection

Profile of Non-Human response, Emobied lessons :

The Non-human that I chose is my dog Bingo. I admire his positivity, energy, and lovingness growing up. And although he is not by my side anymore, I still remember the happiness and playfulness he brings to the people around him. Therefore I want to create an object that brings out the child-like qualities to people. Something that a person would wear on a jolly day and spreads positivity.

I have always wanted to explore making jewelry and accessories with delicate details, therefore I chose to create a set of earrings and a headband. I believe the size of the earring and the color palette I chose for the headband support my idea of creating something cute and child-like. Throughout the process, I have learned technical skills such as creating small detailed shapes from wire,  3D building with hot glue and different knot constructions. And one lesson that I found most rewarding is developing the skill to make earring attachments from wire. Design as such is often overlooked from its complexity.

Embodied lessons:

1. Model making with hot glue
2. Creating earring attachments
3. Utilizing daily tools such as tips of a ball pen to create detailed shapes with clay
4. Using clay as a mold for hot glue
5. Knot constructions
6. Different types of fabric response
7. Single stitch

3D sketch model

Sketch

Fullscale prototype 

Process photos

researching different types of earring attachments and knot constructions

photographing final works

Molding hot glue to clay

Technical drawings 

Final photographs 

Research Proposal :

For this research assignment, I chose to research advertisement posters, films, and news media that portray the cigarette culture amongst teenagers in the 40s-80s. I was drawn to the topic after listening to a podcast from the New York Times “The Promise and Peril of Vaping, Part 2 The story of Juul” In the podcast, it addresses how Juul advertisements play a role on this ongoing trend for vaping. Therefore I was curious to see how cigarette commercials are like back in the 40s to 80s. For my risograph poster, I would like to create an advertisement for an e-cigarette company emulating the commercial style back in the 40s to 80s.

Mind Map:

Photos of original object

3 compositions of component parts

Written Reflection

For the skillshare workshop, I decided to teach my classmates how to make a portable studio lightbox. A design that has been very useful for my classes at parsons especially for taking product photography. After conducting the workshop I realize that the time is not enough for my peers to finish creating a lightbox. Which resulted in having my classmates to bring home the materials and finishing it up on their own. If I were to conduct this workshop again, I would only do a quick demonstration of how to make the lightbox and focus more on the photography aspect inside the lightbox. For example, teaching my peers how to create interesting shadows, lighting techniques and angles to taking product photography. However, I am glad to see some of my classmates were interested in the design and toke the materials home to continue.

I found it very interesting to see Pierre Cardin’s Futuristic design from 1960s to 1980s today. Because as Pierre’s “future audience” I believe he had a pretty accurate vision to what future fashion looked like. From materials such as vinyl to organic circular shapes in his design, he had brought the future to the eyes in the past. Despite his extraordinary designs I found his idea of creating unisex couture clothing to be very contemporary. A design that I enjoy a lot is his rib trim vinyl maxi coat. It is a red unisex coat made of vinyl. During the 60s plastic is not a common material to be used in fashion. Looking through the eyes of the past, I believe the glossiness of the plastic and the straight zipper on the side chest really gave a futuristic look to it’s audience. Especially the ambiguous sex of the model must have created interesting conversation around its audience. Overall I really enjoy the exhibition and wonder if there are artists today like Pierre, creating fashion depicting the future today.