OBDF 210

 Project 1 Week 2 - Mood Board Precedent Work     My inspiration for this project comes from an artist I referenced in my mini presentation, Catherine Burgess. Her work involves cold, industrial materials like metal, processed and fabricated in a way that the finished piece appears like something handmade or like a less industrial material such as ceramic.      When thinking about the fabrication process of laser cutting, I'm reminded of a heavily industrialized process; kind of a "cold" medium. There is what feels like a large separation between a laser cut item versus an item that is hand carved or cut. Having these associations, I wanted to choose a material that represented the opposite.      I decided on painted porcelain tea plates as my material. Though these plates aren't necessarily handmade, I have strong associations to decorative plates as something that is warm and feminine, and an item that is oftentimes displayed in homes ...

  2D Mosaic I chose my t shirt design to create the 2D mosaic in Rhino because I liked the mixed elements of straight geometric lines and also a floral pattern.   I first began by locking the image of the shirt design in Rhino and then creating a separate layer for the picture. I then sectioned off a square so that I had an area of focus in the design, this I made into a separate layer also. I used mostly the line and polyline tool, and sometimes the ellipse shape and the trim tool. After outlining my set area, I put the design on another new layer and then also copied a new "tile" so that I could return to the original design if need be.  I continued copying the tile and then rotating it to fit so that it slightly overlapped and so that the straight lines from tile to tile wouldn't match up perfectly.  The resulting pattern is one I really like; because of the rectangular border shape around each small tile, it overall ends up looking like a roll of film at fir...