Anfal Abdulrahman – Aesthetics of Design

Goal My goal for this class was having an integrated project of engineering and aesthetics. This goal was pursed by making a Piet Mondrian inspired LED dress. Piet Mondrian is known for his work that shown in figure 1. The white, red, yellow and blue colors are very attractive and actually were made into dresses as…

Piet Mondrian LED dress 4/20/16

April 21, 2016

This week I have learned few things: Piet Mondrian LED dress is white- I’ve used a black dress and honestly it did not seem as pretty. Do not sew LED until you settle on the batteries and their voltages and amperages respectively – I have been too reckless and thus had decided to buy a…

Piet Mondrian LED dress 4/13/16

April 21, 2016

Greetings! So I’ve decided on the Piet Mondrian dress and bought 40 to 50 3mm LEDs of each of the green, red and yellow colors. The battery is still of a concern but I’ve decided to go ahead and attach the leds according to the design and then calculate voltage and amperage needed. So far I sewed…

Anfal’s 4/6/16 post

April 10, 2016

Hello, So I honestly didn’t have much time this week to progress much. However, I got some advice from teammates in regards to the battery problems, I think I will get red of the resistor (even though I wanted them for designing purposes) in order to save current and thus the batteries, given the big…

Anfal’s Wednesday progress post

April 1, 2016

Greetings! Over the spring I have obtained everything I wanted, I have an initial design and started cutting and putting fine print layouts on the address. Although, I have not attached anything to the dress prominently. I am still struggling with the batteries, I need to figure that out. This weekend I will be attaching things…

Anfal’s project progress

March 16, 2016

Designs by on day 2 of Graduate Fashion Week at The Old Truman Brewery on May 31, 2015 in London, England. Hello! New Project So, I’ve changed my project entirely and have decided to make a smart garment instead, also known as e-textile. In search for materials and ideas for my old project I…

Anfal’s top five constrains

March 10, 2016

My top five constrains are: Integration of sensors, motors and fabric how far it can be pretty and functional. Aesthetic – what is my genre? do I belong to one, is it fine if I don’t or should I start looking for one to identify with? We talked in class today about the fine line in human embodiment…

Anfal’s Building in Progress

March 2, 2016

I want my final piece to be weird, unusual yet attractive and beautiful. I also would love for my project to expresses me to some extent as a women and engineer who has appreciation for aesthetics. In order for that to happen I want to create a simple walking mechanism and be able to amplify…

Anfal’s project inspirations

February 28, 2016

This semester is one of a kind having three project classes and almost no homework, midterms and the usual structure. This semester resembles the real-world working environment and I hope this would help me with the transition. Also, I think overall I became smarter and more knowledgeable about team dynamics which in turn will help…

Anfal’s Aspiration

February 18, 2016

What are my aspirations? This class is one of few classes that I have been assigned to do my own project at. Being used to group project it is somewhat weird. However, I appreciate the aspects of individualism and aesthetic required for this class. Before this class my mindset as and engineer was that functionality…

Anfal’s skills

February 10, 2016

Hello team, I think the number one skill I have is that I am excited and eager to learn about everything, so if you asked me something that I do not know I would still try to figure it out. So, to the more technical side if things. I am electrically/ electronically inclined. I really…

Strandbeest Report

February 4, 2016

Animaris Umerus, Scheveningen beach, The Netherlands (2009). Courtesy of Theo Jansen. Photo by Loek van der Klis Motivation As a future engineer taking Aesthetic of Design class, one of the first things that came in mind was the work of artist and physicist Theo Jansen. It all started in 1090 when he started building the Strandbeest…

Design Process

January 28, 2016

Team: Anfal Abdulrahman Nick Ortiz Nick Flood Attached picture of our design process that we came up with during the class today. Hope you find this helpful.

Mini Strandbeest design progress

January 27, 2016

Continuing from my last post about Strandbeest I bought a mini strandbeest assembly kit to help me better understand the mechanism and drain some idea. I was able to assemble it as shown in the figures: I also took a video of it “walking” while blowing it with hair dryer but unfortunatly it wasn’t compatible with the website.…

Strandbeest

January 17, 2016