La Projecto Finalmente

To be perfectly honest during the first part of this project I didn't know what I was doing. However, one day as I was getting ready to go to school I saw that design on my my desk and I had a revelation. The general bits and pieces of my project fell into place, I would use acrylic to cut out and engrave the design itself and then I would house it in wooden plaque. The actual Adobe part of this design went along without a hitch because at this point if you can't draw stuff in Illustrator are you even doing Digital Fabrication?

At this point I was slightly lost. I had already printed out the design and it fit within the stock but there was nothing else. It was just a piece of wood with a design, albeit a cool one. Designs on wood has been my favorite part on this class because natural talent with illustrator I guess. So, I decided to do what I did and snazz up the piece of wood. Through countless attempts at getting ideas in this class I had developed a technique: The TSUBAME GAESHI!!! To run through my files within a single minute maximizing idea coverage and minimizing time waste. Through this method I found four suitable images that would drip out the stock and thus I drew them out on illustrator and engraved them on.

Ultimately, Digital Fabrication has been one of my favorite classes this year because the freedom to make almost anything I want has been amazing when the let's call it structure of my other class have been ... spiritually taxing. But if I could do this project again and I had unlimited time and resources I would want to make a trophy made by stacking different pieces that will have been CNC'd out and stacking them on top of each other. Maybe, i'll do that next semester when I have a study hall but as of right now i'm just a kid with a dream.