This week everything went wrong, but I guess that's gonna be the situation every week from now.
I started with the vinyl cutting. I designed
a texture of terrazzo tiles in three different layers
to create a terrazzo sticker with three colors.
After cutting the three layers, I understood that taking apart all the small pieces of the
texture will be hard. I attached the first
layer to a sticky paper and then the second layer, so the
first layer sticked to the second and I needed to cut the
two layers all over again. It took me two hours, but in the
end I managed to stick together all the three layers. I also
changed the yellow layer to a black one.
And here are the ai files:
FIRST LAYER
SECOND LAYER
THIRD LAYER
I have some experience with laser cutting, so I was suprised that it took me so long to finish this task.
The first thing that was hard for me was to decied on a design that I want to make. I wanted to design a shoe,
but eventually decided to design a lamp.
We did some testing with the laser cutter at the shop as a group, but since I wanted to cut a white material,
I neede to do the testing again on the white cardboard. The machine worked fine on the small testing,
but when i started to cut the whole form, it didn't cut it well. I tried to increase the power, but
it still didn't cut it right. After wasting too much material, I went to the laser at N51 and cut it there. It worked great.
I designed a lamp that can be assambly in different ways. The skeleton is uniform but the skin has different sizes of offset
so I could assambly it with different parts or order to create different designs. It was hard to assambly because the
material was too thin and pieces were easily torn.
And here are the design files:
RHINO LAMP FILE
GRASSHOPPER LAMP FILE
The web thing was the hardest part this week. I still don't know how to edit it through the Atom,
but I managed to build it anyway and edit it on Github online. I decided first to do simple pure html
website, and to improve it with design and details after knowing some more html.