Brittany Callin

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Current Vs. 20th Century Design

May 8, 2019

Current vs 20th century design movements 2019

At first I hard a hard time placing my design within a 20th century design movement, but upon more research I selected two design movements that matches my final design project. My final project is a snow globe terrarium. I making the base out of terra cotta. I am keeping the design of the terra…

Summing Up 2019

May 8, 2019

Brittany Callin

Summing Up 2019

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This semester I created two artifacts. The first artifact I created was an up-cycled lamp. For this artifact I focused on the appearance and how to make common trash into a beautiful object someone would want to keep inside their home. I achieved this with a very floral aesthetic. The second object I created was…

Main Project Part 2: Snow Globe Terrarium

May 8, 2019

Brittany Callin

Main Project Report 2019 Part 2

I am very pleased with my final project. It is not what I originally aimed for aesthetically, but it still turned out very well. My original aesthetic was fairy tale with a combination of a log cabin aesthetic. I achieved my fairy tale aesthetic. My fairy tale aesthetic was achieved through the miniature house, butterfly/fairy…

Main Project Report Part 1: Terrarium Snow Globe

April 25, 2019

Brittany Callin

Main Project Report 2019 Part 1

For my final project I created a terrarium in the shape of a snow globe. My initial plan for the base of the terrarium was to have it made of wood or to at least to look like wood. I realized very early on in the design process that this was not going to be…

Main Project Final Stretch: Snow-globe Terrarium

April 10, 2019

Brittany Callin

Main Project Final Stretch Progress 2019

I am currently two weekends away before I want project to be finished. I am currently on schedule and have completed all of the steps I wanted to by this point. I have bought all of the supplies (clay, large glass bowl, plants, miniature house, fairy lights, wood stain, and moss). I have also sculpted…

Construction Timeline: Terrarium

April 3, 2019

Brittany Callin

Construction Timeline 2019

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For my final project I am creating a snowglobe terrarium. I already have almost all of my materials and I have made the main base of the terrarium, which was the most time consuming part of the project. I am also only available to work on the project during the weekend due to my busy…

Design Review Report: Terrarium

March 11, 2019

Brittany Callin

Design Review Report 2019

For my final project I want to focus on the dynamics of plants and containing that within something that is normally conceived as stagnant. To accomplish this I am creating a snow globe terrarium. An example of a normal terrarium is pictured below: Image taken from: https://www.potterybarn.com/products/glass-terrarium/ I want to achieve a fairy tale aesthetic…

Top 5 Constraints

March 8, 2019

Brittany Callin

Top 5 constraints 2019

For my final project I am making a terrarium shaped like a snow globe. This project has a lot of complications that could arise. Here are the top five I can see effecting the project currently. The first constraint is the materials I will be using for the base of the terrarium. I need something…

Main Project Inspirations

February 27, 2019

Brittany Callin

Main project inspirations 2019

For my project I plan on creating a terrarium in the shape of a snow globe. The snow globe shape, is obviously inspired by snow globes. The idea of a snow globe shape came to me during class while I was sketching. I already had the idea of a terrarium, I was just unsure of…

Skill Set and Aspirations

February 25, 2019

Brittany Callin

Skill sets and personal aspirations 2019

I am currently in my last semester in chemical and biological engineering, with a minor in biomedical engineering. As far as programs go I am proficient in Matlab, Aspen HYSYS, and Aspen Plus. I am very skilled in Excel. I am also experienced with some specialty tools. I am very good at compression fittings, Propress,…

Upcycle Project: Flower/Spiral Lamp

February 10, 2019

Brittany Callin

Upcycle final report 2019

For my upcycle project I created a lamp with a spiral cardboard base and a floral, coffee filter lampshade. The base was made of a repeating shape that spiraled upward. Each piece was glued together with tacky glue. Shown below the individual pieces are shown and also in-progress pictures of the base being glued together.…

Upcycle Inspiration: Spiral Staircase

February 6, 2019

Brittany Callin

Upcycle Inspirations 2019, Upcycle progress 2019

cardboard, Lamp, Upcycle

As I mentioned in my last blog post, the base of my lamp is inspired by a spiral staircase. The spiral staircase I was directly inspired by was from a DIY (Do it yourself) video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-Z7OTAjJ0, by Ben Uyeda on Facebook I saw a couple of months ago (You can find Ben Uyeda and his…

Upcycle Progress: Cardboard Lamp

January 30, 2019

Brittany Callin

Upcycle progress 2019

cardboard, Lamp, Upcycle Project, Wire

For this project I knew what object I wanted to create, but I did not know what I wanted to make it out of. To determine what I was going to make it out of I used my go-to design-process. This process always begins with an initial idea and I then ask other people for…

Aesthetic Exploration: Chiaroscuro

January 23, 2019

Brittany Callin

Aesthetic Explorations 2019

Aesthetic Explorations, Caravaggio, Chiaroscuro, Rembrandt

Chiaroscuro, in its most basic form, is a contrast of light and dark without regard of color. It is commonly used to give subjects of a painting or photograph three dimensions with light falling on the subject from a particular light source out of frame. Though this technique has existed for a long time, it…