The Goodman Guantlet Project Description – Advertising script: Are you tired of not being able to customize your body more? Are you scared of getting tattoos? Do you want more style in your life? Well if you answered yes to any of these questions then worry no further. Move over generic arm and welcome the…
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Assignment 3: CNC Milling – Circuit Map
For My CNC model, I chose to have another one of my own designs be carved into wood. One aspect of a lot of my art is map making, sketching and drawing up maps of made up loacations and cities. A lot of this comes from my interest in circuit board designs and how usually…
Homework: Laser Engraving – Digi-Plaques
For my laser engraving, I chose to engrave four of my own designs onto wood. These designs were originally used for an anthotype process where chemicals are painted onto paper and the designs are then printed on top using a hot lamp. They usually would have come out in a blue and white color and…
Assignment 2: Stacked/Sliced Model
Did you know that there are only 25 working blimps in existence today? it’s a shocking number for something so grand and in essence is just a giant floating balloon. But the reality of it all kind of makes sense, the whole reason for so few of these comes down to cost. In our modern…
Assignment 1: Support Object – Daniel Barrera
Titled “Ship in a Bottle” for my first assignment I wanted to keep it a bit simple and create a popular novelty item that is often collected or given as gifts to loved ones. I combined a bit of the techniques that we have learned so far such as slcijng, meshing, warping and voronoi. it…
Final Project: Circuit City – Daniel Barrera
Ever since I was a kid I’ve been in love with technology whether that be a smartphone, a smart watch, or even a game console. we’ve come a long way of computers the size of entire rooms to today where they’re the size of a small book. With my love of tech comes my love…
Assignment 5: CNC milling, Chicago – Daniel Barrera
For this assignment I decided to do something simple, I found this really cool wallpaper of Chicago and i wanted to see how it would turn out using the CNC process. It came out pretty decent, though next time ill try to add more depth to make put the city farther into the distance. Here…
Raster image engraving -Daniel Barrera
One of my favorite video games is one called “Watch Dogs”, not only because it’s set in Chicago but because the story was pretty good. Anyways the logo for that game is that of an abstract fox because the main character is called the fox by people. there something about it that I just can’t…
Assignment 4: A home divided – Daniel Barrera
This piece hits close to “home”, the story behind it is where I come from, I technically have two homes: the one here in Chicago and the one in Mexico (where my parents came from). When I went to Mexico, me and my family there talked about how one day they would come to America…
Assignment 3: Pistol Butterfly – Daniel Barrera
Pistol Butterfly was originally going to be a piece where when skinned the shape would be of a butterfly and then when constructed, forms a pistol. unfortunately due to some difficulties getting the idea to work, I compromised and combined both a pistol and a butterfly. The idea behind it was to send a war…
Assignment 2: Ranger 1 – Daniel Barrera
Inspired by my favorite movie of all time, Interstellar (2014), I wanted to make my own version of one of the vehicles used in the movie known as Ranger 1. Interstellar is a space exploration movie and when I first saw it, I was fascinated by the design of the ships they used throughout different…
Assignment 1: My Tech Companion – Daniel Barrera
Ever since the you know what pandemic occurred, I found myself with a lot of time to do things that I wouldn’t really have time to do. Most of that time was organizing myself in the digital world, the world of the internet. This consisted of cleaning out old emails and deleting old files to…