final degree

here are the finals:

final booklets:

week 14: the end

View first draft of presentation here:

This week I've been finalizing the designs and printing out and reprinting out 3D parts. It's been a pain to wait for these things to all finish, but it's getting there.

I've also been working on these booklets for Emmy:


And have been figuring out what to apply to each of the machines, and have been spray painting them.

week 13: last stretch

APRIL 18–22

It's a week before the final, and I'm scrambling a bit...
But I've solidified the AT machine and the ON machine, but the IN machine needs some work. It's getting there!







You can see the intense planning this requires below...



Prototype I made in my digital fabrication class...that failed. Oh well! Still good experience.



Next I have to spray paint the edges and work on the machine booklets, where you can see some drafts below:

week 12

APRIL 11–15



Above of a video draft of what I may do to show process. You can see the 3D prints as well as some of the parts for AT and ON. All the pieces are cut on the CNC, except for some pieces for the IN machine for 3d parts.

week 11

APRIL 4–8

This week has been mostly CNC routing and 3D Printing parts for the machines. It's been tough trying to schedule times to use it, because of my internship at Populous. Things are getting a bit crazier in terms of time and having to finish things before 5pm. Anyhow, I have all the AT prints cut out and planned out:



I've just started assembly...next is printing stuff for the ON machine!

week 10

MARCH 28–APRIL 1

Drafts for the machines are complete. See below images for each:

This is for the AT machine. It will be flexible two ways, where there will be two cranks. While the pen tool goes up and down to make scattered dotted lines, the drawing table will also turn.


This is for the ON machine. It's not as flushed out, but I have a general idea of what it will do. Since ON requires two surfaces, this machine will not be flat like the AT machine, but will have two planes. The drawing tool in the middle will be able to turn in two directions while the sheet of paper can also move and be pulled out.

Last but not least the IN machine. This one is a little more vague, however I think the three pens will go inside the cylindrical shape where it will draw inside the circle. 

I've also started to 3D print some parts, and have talked to Evin about the designs. He suggests that I use Inkscape for the gears and to look up some gear generators online.

week 9

MARCH 21–25

Since last week I was able to solidify my question, this week I've started to draw out plans for what that thing I'm making might be. I began to draw up some sketches, and have been looking for inspiration on how to visualize the relationship between language, space and time. The three prepositions I will be focusing on are: AT, ON, IN because these three are interchangeably used spatially and temporally.



I'm thinking of putting three different posters behind the machines to anchor them to each preposition. I also found these images by Ken Cox, where he seems to be doing something similar to me, but with different intentions:

sx: Le Toh

It goes where you go

t4: degree moodboards

sx: senior show

Preflight by mlim5036

week 7: midterm presentation

MARCH 7–11

It's been a slow start, and I've only just begun to solidify my question. Though I value the process of narrowing down the idea, this issue of not being able to pinpoint what I want persists in my work. I blame it mostly on the immense pressure I feel when I think about my degree project, making me feel like every idea I have is inadequate. On a more positive note, I finally have something I'm excited about and can stay excited about for the whole semester. From meshing two-dimensional and three-dimensional, to children's books, to language and space, some elements from each step carried over. So it wasn't all a waste! Overall, what keeps me going is the anticipation of other people's projects. I'm excited to see what everyone will do. Some things I need to do onward is trying to make up for lost time. I am a bit behind, but with some perseverance I'll get back into place.

At this point, I've been prototyping and learning about new tools I could use for my degree project. Since I don't know much about gears and mechanisms, I'm trying to learn how to make the gears function and do what I want them to do. I also went to the Fab Lab with Haas, and we learned how to laser cut. 

I realized that there's an obvious but somewhat abstract relationship between time and space: its roundness. The world is round, therefore all space we inhabit is round. And, time is measured on a clock.

My question has been updated to:

"how can I translate letterforms into space and motion using interactive, moving mechanisms to demonstrate how language affects and forms the way we understand space?"

t4: haribo

week 6: prototyping

FEBRUARY 29–MARCH 4

Found this awesome website, robives.com, to experiment/learn about gears. I followed some of his tutorials and came up with some mini prototypes for what my final product may look like/may include:

I also went asked Jo Kamm to teach me how to use the laser cutter. On Saturday, I went over to the Metropolitan Community College's tech lab to use their laser printer.

Something I experimented with:

After assembly:

week 3&4: summary

sx: senior show moodboards

t4: lemon drops

t4: packaging moodboards/research

Thinking of designing packaging for hard-candy that I'll probably buy at Nature's Own. I'm leaning towards the more playful aesthetic (note the clown bottle), but using the intricate structure in the second moodboard.