Special Edition-Laser cut Notebook

 As a side project I decided to create a notebook using the laser cutter. I designed it in Illustrator using a rounded rectangle and then I added kerf cutting to the middle where I wanted it to bend. With the basic design done I decided I wanted to add a design so I took an old illustration of Baby Groot that I had done and put that on the front cover. When I finally cut it everything worked except the image cut out completely. So I ended up gluing it back in place. I also decided to print out a nebula I made and I hot glued it to the inside to give a background for the cut out parts. This was the final result.

 

Week 12-3D printing part 2

This week we had to print the object that we created in Tinkercad last week. Using the MakerBot software and the MakerBot Replicator+ we printed the items. After resizing my box a little to cut down the time the finished it was 2 3/4 in. tall and 3 1/8 in. wide. This is the printed result.

Week 11- 3D printing part one

For this week we had to build an object in Tinkercad that assembled. What I decided to create was a box. Since I didn't want it to be simple I made it a hexagon. Then I decided to recreate the solar system going around the box to add more design to it. I used various shape tools and the hole creater in Tinkercad to make it. This is what I came up with.

Week 10- Virtual Reality

For this week we had to work in the virtual reality space. Our assignment was to create a place within the city virtual reality space and add to the replica of our art building. For my addition to the city I was inspired by the legend of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. I created a gardenscape around a glowing pool of water with firefly like lights all around. For my addition to the art building I was inspired by the Mystery Machine and decided to replicate that in Virtual Reality. These are the final results.

Week 9- Hot sauce Package

 I decided to create a coffin shaped container for the hot sauce bottle as the final design. Using Illustrator, the laser cutter, and wood glue I crafted and assembled the box. I chose this design with the idea of creating vampire hot sauce. I ended up designing a latch to secure the the box closed. I ended up having to cut it 3 times before I got it to work. This was the end result.

Week 8- Hot Sauce package designs

    This week we were assigned to create sketches for 3 different packages for hot sauce. These sketches will be used to create the cut document to send to the laser cutter. To make my sketches I used graphing paper to help with making the sketches to scale. My 3 ideas are a coffin, a sleeve box, and a cylinder that can unroll with a circle that closes it. These are the final sketches for the ideas.

Week 7- Cylinder

        This week some of us were given the task of creating a 3 inch cylinder out of plywood using the laser cutter. To start with, we found the circumference of the smaller circle using C=πd. We used the result of this equation to determine the length of the kerf cutting we would uses to wrap around the circles to create a cylinder. After getting all off the measurements we used Illustrator to create the cutting document for the laser.  To create the kerf cutting, I used the shape builder tool to make a rectangle with the center cut out and a little extender piece. Then I copied and pasted that until it was around the length of the rectangle I had made that was the length of the circumference of the inner circles.After that I used the shape builder tool to make it all one shape. Then I used the shape builder tool again after putting the kerf cutting piece on top of the rectangle to cut it down to that exact length. This was the final result.

Week 6- Crayon Box part 4

 This week we had to turn in the final constructed boxes and their matching crayons. We had to use the digital paper cutter to cut out at least one part of the project so I used it to cut out one set of the crayon wrappers. So the tools that we used were the printer, Illustrator, glue sticks, scissors, glossy paper and plain paper to make and assemble the boxes. I also used my manual cricket cutter. These were the final results.

Week 5- Crayon Box part 3

         For this week we were tasked with creating three different graphic designs for our boxes and the crayon wrappers. It one had to be a different theme with it's own color scheme and logo/company name. For my three themes I chose space, pop punk, and Broadway. To create the designs I used Adobe illustrator. Within Illustrator I used the pen tool, the brush tool, the selection tools, the type tool, the image trace tool and the Gaussian blur effect.

      For the Showtones crayon box I wanted to do a theater theme so I made the art on the box curtains being drawn and used a font the resembled marquee lights. For the crayon wrappers each color corresponded with the actual color of the crayon. For the names I used references to musicals to really tie the concept together.

      For the Color Me Punk crayon box I wanted a basic black background but splatters of color since punk style incorporates wild hair colors and the music is just as wild. For the font I wanted the word punk to stand out and feel edgy so I made it a different color and used a brush like font. For the wrappers I made them all black but I used the ink spatter design on the paint brush to add the color of the actual crayon to the wrapper and to add an extra element of design. For the names I wanted to do something to correspond with the theme but i couldn't quite do it for all of them.

     Lastly, For the Celestial crayon box I did a galaxy background using the Gaussian blur effect to give it a space feel. I also did it on the word Celestial to make it feel softer. I also brought in a design of mine as an ascent to the design. For the crayon wrappers I kept the same design and the box cover, using the ascent as a border on either side of the words. 

      

Week 4- Crayon box part 2

         For this week we had to create an innovative design that would serve as our final design moving forward. To accomplish this assignment we used illustrator to create the layout and glossy 11x17 paper and glue sticks to assemble it. for my design i built upon the diamond box from last week and added a smaller diamond shaped pedestal in the middle to separate the crayons and keep them in place. I also added a longer tab. This was the result.

Week 3- Crayon box part 1

          This week we were tasked with creating crayon boxes that would hold 8 crayons. One box had to be a basic box and the other was a more innovative box. To begin this project we took measurements of the dimensions of one crayon. Then we laid them down on graphing paper and arranged them in different shapes and took measurements. then we took the designs to illustrator. In illustrator we used the rulers, grid, pen tool, shape tool, and shape builder tool to recreate the designs. After we accomplished that we printed it out on glossy 11x17 paper and assembled it using glue sticks.

       My plain box I created fit 2 rows of 4 crayons and allowed you to see the tops of the crayons. 

              

My second box was a diamond shape that allowed you to see all of the crayons when you opened it

Week 2- Paper Cube

     This week we were tasked with creating and assembling paper cubes with our art work on the outside. To accomplish this we used Adobe Illustrator and glossy paper for both the 2 inch and 3 inch cubes. In Illustrator we used the shape builder tool, the rectangle tool, the direct selection tool and a clipping mask. For the graphing paper cube we used rulers, pencils, graphing paper and glue to create and assemble them.

     

Week 1-Intro

My name is Taylor Anderson and I am a Junior here at SXU studying Graphic Design. My experience with 3D design is with wood working and help with set design in my high school productions.