Due to a really busy week and weekend, I am behind on progress this week. I am currently at the same place as last week, except the difference is that my sewing machine is tested and ready to use! However, I am planning on doing the bulk of my project on Thursday through Sunday. I…

As for my update for this week, I will be going over my revised timeline in summary. I will be going for an aggressive schedule starting this Friday. My plan is to compress about 3-4 weeks of work all into Spring Break. This means purchasing all of the remaining materials, detaching the existing umbrella fabric,…

Time. Everything of mine requires gluing, painting, drying, sewing… All of which use a lot of time. And we only have about 7 weeks left in the semester, so I need to be even more aggressive about my schedule. I expect getting the lace to be the correct size then attaching it to the frame…

I’m still juggling between a few different ideas, but the two top ideas I am debating between are a light-up fan bed canopy and Neo’s parasol from the show RWBY.  I will write my blog post mapping out both of these ideas. Light-Up Bed Canopy This idea is inspired by my team member Brittany Warly…

As a fifth year BS/MS student with a track in bioengineering, I am taking this class solely out of interest. All of the design project classes I’ve taken so far has always been with a group all working toward a single product with no concern towards aesthetics, so I’m very interested in gaining more project…

My primary engineering-related strength I can offer my teammates is SolidWorks experience. Overall, I consider myself proficient to advanced – I am very knowledgable and familiar with SolidWorks and basically LOVE this program.  I know that almost all of us mechanicals have SolidWorks experience, but I have also worked with SolidWorks in industry, specifically two summers…

My project revolves around pure aesthetic – specifically a lot of color and shiny things and light (all of my favorite things). The main idea is using a ton of glue that dries clear, I will add in different colored glass shards and build a gloriously colorful glass shard tree. As I cannot start until tomorrow…

Bigger is better? Not for this spectacle of art. This aesthetic focuses on the art form of regular everyday things in an irregular size – specifically, incredibly small. These tiny replicas, despite being tiny, manage to draw in more attention than it they do at their regular size. For example, yesterday’s lunch? Already forgot. But take…