Milestone Projects

1. Castle
For this project, I was refreshing my memory on how to use Rhino so it became a very symmetrical design as I was trying to reuse the commands I learned last year. I had no plan as to what I wanted my castle to look like, I just wanted to keep building on from smaller bits and pieces. I actually went into designing the interior more than the exterior since I was building out of it. I had two to three rooms on each side with a desk and doors with extremely tiny doorknobs. Though you can't really see them now that I put a ceiling over the rooms. That's on me for not fully planning out what I needed before I started creating the castle.

2. Surface Design Study

For this design, I had two inspirations that I wanted to draw from, which were quite different. A geometric bag design along with a Chinese embroidery throw pillow. This was the pattern I created, again it's leaning towards a lot of detail as to a united design that looks like a pattern. Really had to build off of a line-based design and offset most of it to create the gold embroidery type of line. Wasn't a terrible assignment, got a little frustrated though. But I think it would have been cool to use the surface design onto something or as a render onto a cube or basic 3D item.

3. Reverse Engineered Object

Simple doesn't mean it's easy. I definitely found that out through this project. Not only did I choose an object that doesn't really come apart, as the screw in the scissors were welded into each other and the handle is shut tight to the blades. Rounding the corners was one of the trickiest parts of creating the scissors. But I later found out it was a simple drop-down menu option that could solve the issue. The other tricky part of this project was creating that sharper blade, it's curved in a weird location and I couldn't wrap my head around which steps to do it in. That took about 2.5 hours to figure out.

4. Outsourced Wearable Object

Super fun project! I always wear rings and have always wanted to design one, but I never knew where I could get them made. This idea actually came from my realization of how many vails I own and buy constantly so I thought why not make my own version of a vail as a wearable object. I created it digitally so that it would function as a vail with a hollowed-out interior like a bottle.

I did end up ordering the ring, my hopes are that when it gets 3D printed out, it would actually be hollowed out and possibly a functioning bottle. I will definitely add a new blog post and post photos to my Instagram (@acire_art) showing off the ring once it comes in.

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/acire-designs

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4. Parametric Structure Scale Model (Digital) (ii)

Title: Lap Wave Desk Inspiration: Ocean/Wave glass sculptures and The Great Wave off Kanagawa print by Hokusai Difference from typical furniture: A typical lap desk is formal looking, just metal and a plain one colour platform. I wanted something that's less traditional and more sculpture base, one that looks like an art piece and might benefit some users with the wave patterns as holders. Function: It's a lap desk! Those computer desks are portable and you can put them on your lap to hold your laptop on. Others might use it as a standing desk by putting it on top of a regular table Intended Location: Homes and maybe a less traditional office Intended Audience: Students, office workers, people who need to do work standing or work portable Here are the renders for my lap desk, I made two versions of it. One in an Oak material, one in transparent plastic with a slight blue colour just to make sure it would appear in the render. I made the decision of the transparent one bec...

Papercraft Research

What is papercraft? Papercraft, to my understanding, is a paper-made art and craft. Paper is the easy-to-find medium so it is easy for people to use paper to make things with, in our case we would be making 3d objects and understanding how folds, crease, and tabs should be connected in order to hold pieces of paper in place. Reviewing an article: Popupology The Popupology shop papercraft caught my eyes first. On the Colossal article, scrolling through that article, everything seemed very busy and complex, which I totally love, but it's not really my style. The Popupology shop ones, on the other hand, seemed so simple but so cool that it caught my eyes. Especially the hand-cut out one, how that is just a simple cut-out flipped on the other side and having it pop out with the thumbs looking like it's intersecting, that really stood out to me. Because this reminded me of elementary and how we used to do these DIY pop-up cards for holidays, t...

Memorial Jewellery Documentation II

Here's part two of my memorial jewellery piece, the final renders and explanations for my decisions on this project. The functionality of the ear cuff is still iffy to me. I tried to create a hinge for the bottom curve so that it would make sense as a piece that uses the earring hole, instead of just being a metal that hangs on the ear. But overall I feel like it is still lacking in that portion of the design because it doesn't fully make sense. I would assume that you'd have to wear the bottom part through the earring hole before clipping the back end together and hooking it over the top of the ear. And because I created it as a hinge-based opening, I had to pair it with a snap post closure instead of the screw back I had initially chosen. Theoretically, this ear cuff curvature would have to be adjusted from person to person because it's more personalized to fit an individual's ear shape. Plus it's designed to be aligned to the outer earlobe piercing so it wo...

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