PROJECT

These three projects were intro-level exercises meant to broaden the idea of the process of industrial design. They were focused on careful craft, considering multiple aspects of a single design, and the semantics and approachability of form.

FOUR-BOARD FOOTSTOOL

The goal for the four-board footstool was to turn a 5-foot by 10-inch board into four separate pieces and combine them together into a footstool. The pieces could only be cut at 90˚ angles, and the stool could only have 90˚ relations. The challenge was working within these shape restraints and using the spaces created between the four elements to create visual interest.

PLANT / STICK / ROCK VESSEL

This project was an exploration on the interaction between extremely different forms. I used plastic shaped by a vacuum to create a rounded vessel that would be filled with sand and display an airplant and a rock and stick of our choosing. We had to pay close attention to how every element related to each other in terms of shape and proportion.

PRIMITIVE HAND TOOLS

This project was focused on semantics of form, the visual language that informs a user on the function of an object from the moment they pick it up. The assignment was to create two primitive hand tools — a hand axe and one of our own choosing — that shared similar aesthetic qualities. In their construction, we had to consider how the aspects of the form would impact how the tools would be held and used.