Bristol Board

The Bristol board is harder to work with than regular paper. It is less flexible but more sturdy so this made it different than paper. I did figure out things that I could do differently than paper that is very interesting. Because it is thicker you can rip away layers. Ripping it also makes a cool effect. I do not know really what I am going to make but I am not supposed to yet.

Lamp Inspiration

Over thanksgiving break I looked at different lamps for inspiration

Project 4

We are now starting on project four which is to make a lamp made out of paper. We are supposed to found out and use ways to let the light through. We made 25 or more models that demonstrate that.

Final Book

The final product of my book was good but not the best it could be. It had poor craftsmanship but this was due to having mono during the weeks that they we've been working on it.

Written reflection on Parts of the Letter

This lecture was very helpful for this project. When talking about our letters with my group members it was useful to know the terms of the part of the letter we were talking about. I know that not only did it help for this project but also for my upcoming college classes. It would also be beneficial to know the terms for my future career.

Inspirations for Books

I wanted to do something other than an accordion book style for my book so I found some things online that gave me inspiration for it.

Compress Onsite

Today we put our words onsite and showed the class. I think that making the foam, though challenging, was a good decision because the letters looked very good when placed in the windows and compressed themselves. 

Construction

Construction of the words were harder than we thought. Cutting the foam was difficult to make it not rigged on the sides. Also it was when we were done we noticed that they couldn't stand on their own. So we had do a lot of problem solving. We ended up cutting in the middle of the letters and adding wire for more support. This is very time consuming, it would have been better if we could have bought more foam but it was expensive.