Raina's Object Design Blog

In my last class of object design, we were asked to look into remix culture. Which is just basically taking something already made, and making a "new" and updated version of it. The best example for that would be with music, DJs are constantly making mashups of songs or even just editing current ones. This can even be seen with movies, with directors making "parodies" of certain movies. I remember an example of such was shown in class with movie directors adding music that wouldn't normally fit with a scene but then it ends up setting a different mood for the scene. That is sort of what I tried to do with this project, its mostly just things that normally don't make any sense, but when you put them together, it makes a different setting.  Mesh 1: Weird Car - With this one, it was my first 3D mashup of the project, and I honestly just did the first thing that came to mind. Not sure why it was this but, it works. cosmetic lower arm prosthetic by Hatsyflatsy - ...

Recently, For my object design class at Auarts, I was assigned to watch the documentary "Objectified" by Gary Hustwitz. This documentary focused heavily on the reality and the complex areas of design. The amount of thinking that is required for an object as simple as a spoon or a fork amazed me. This documentary showed how simple and easy to access design will sell better to the consumers. Such as apple, apple has such an iconic and simple look to it, and its one of the most known things in the world. There was this one part in the documentary where they had a little hamster wheel on the Roomba, and that inspired me to create a Roomba for my assignment. I originally wanted to add a hamster wheel onto mine to add some personality, but I realized quickly that I am not that skilled with making 3d models, which is something I hope to improve on in this class as it is mostly about 3d models. I started off by making a cylinder as the main shape for the Roomba. As the documentary me...