Xiang Luo

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Main Project Inspiration: Hedgehog phone case

May 3, 2020

Main Project Inspirations 2020

My main project inspiration was first being Fibonacci Sequence, since I have always been a huge fan of those spiral design. But eventually, I opted for a hedgehog inspired design for my final project, because I thought it’s interesting to utilize the mimic the spikes on the back of the hedgehog into a functional design.…

Main project part 2 – Hedgehog Phone Case

April 29, 2020

Xiang Luo

Final Project Part 2 2020, Student Work

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Presentation of the final project.

Final Project part 1 – Hedgehog Phone case

April 22, 2020

Xiang Luo

Final Project Part 1 2020

For my final capstone project, I made a 3D-modeled phone case, inspired from the spikes of the hedgehogs. I wanted to make a phone case that help people to stop using their phone, and end product did fulfill my initial expectation. The back is made of movable spikes with a mechanism inspired by lego. And…

Construction Update – Hedgehog phone case

April 15, 2020

Xiang Luo

Main Project Construction Update 2020

Not going to do an actual 3D printed or fabricated object, but I’ll present the render of the object for the final expo/presentation.

Aesthetics in Minimalism

April 8, 2020

Xiang Luo

Student Work, Your Aesthetic Roots 2020

I don’t see any aesthetic roots in myself. But as for my final project of making a hedgehog phone case , I’m choosing minimalism and perhaps a little bit of biomimicry, with that being said, it’s creating something with minimal shape that can represent its animal form. Above is the example of biomimicry, the product…

Mars Project Team – Favorite design/build video

March 31, 2020

Xiang Luo

Favorite Youtube design/build videos 2020, Student Work

I like the channel, Mars Project Team, a lot. They are really good at making miniature buildings out of real building materials like concrete and then furnish them with usable diy-furnitures. The miniatures that they make are very much like a livable real houses, but just in small scale. I remember the first time that…

Design Review Part 2: So… How do I fabricate the hedgehog phone case?

March 18, 2020

Xiang Luo

Design Review 2020 Part 2: Timeline and Logistics, Student Work

The image itself is pretty self-explanatory. I’ll probably choose at least one route in between the options of ordering 3D printing service online, make the phonecase by hand, or just buy a basic phone case and alter it to fit my design.

Design Review Part 1: Detailed Plans for Hedgehog Phone Case

March 11, 2020

Xiang Luo

Design Review 2020 Part 1: Detailed Plans

For the final project of this class, I’m creating a hedgehog phone case with minimalism style. I didn’t get to present in class, but here is the slides if anyone wants to check it out: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gyJf20X2NOQIr0quf0dYWkkVemHNb0aMCKH-BLIX3PU/edit?usp=sharing I had this super rough 3D model in the presentation, which I still need to refine. But the basic…

Top 5 constraints

March 4, 2020

Xiang Luo

Top 5 Constraints 2020

The top 5 constraints of my project would be: Time: The time for the project by itself is not a lot, not even to mention that fact that we as students may have 4-5 of other projects/assignments for other classes. So there is limited time to devote to the project. Having to deal with it…

A disruptive interruption: Making a phone case that makes you put down your phone

February 26, 2020

Xiang Luo

Main Project Aesthetic 2020: plans and alternatives

My goal for the final project is to make a phone case that’s so uncomfortable to hold, that it makes your whole experience of using phone horrible, and forces you to put down your phone. The guest lecturer on Monday briefly mentioned about addictive phone use, and I feel like creating something that disrupts the…

Post test

February 26, 2020

Xiang Luo

Student Work

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Upcycling final project: Plastic bottle caps & Polka dots

February 11, 2020

Xiang Luo

Upcycle Final Report 2020

It’s just hard to upload pictures onto this site, so you can check them out at :https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nfvkl7p3Ltj-a_64PLm_OcqbC4G3kT0u Original Sketch&thought: I started out with quite a lot of ideas for this upcycling project. But after I talked with one of my teacher from another class, I decided to focus on using plastic bottle caps for this…

Upcycle progress: Plastic caps art-piece

February 5, 2020

Xiang Luo

Upcycle Progress 2020

For my upcycle project, I’ll be creating an art-piece out of those plastics caps. Right now, I got all my materials: Cardboard, around 1000 bottle caps ( thanks to CU Recycling Facility), and the “glue”. I had taken some of the caps that I got and placed those into a plastic container and soaked with…

Guest Lecture: Greg Whiting

February 3, 2020

Xiang Luo

Aesthetics Game 2020

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Group members: Ethan Elshyeb, Kaiya Wahl, Xiang Luo Here is our designs for the Aesthetics Game during the guest lecture. Our topic was to create soda/beer drinking hat with holder and straw in nerd culture style.

Upcycle inspiration: Turning plastic caps into art?

January 29, 2020

Xiang Luo

Upcycle Inspiration 2020

The story of my inspiration came from two weeks ago… One of my classes is called creative climate change, in this class, we have a professor named Patrick Chandler, who presented one of his past work experience, of working with the Washed Ashore Project. The project itself is about reusing the marine debris, trash gathered…

Polka dots and Yayoi Kusama

January 22, 2020

Xiang Luo

Aesthetic Explorations 2020

Polka dots, is the “a pattern consisting of an array of large filled circles of the same size.” according to Wikipedia. The polka dots pattern, despite being popular and widely recognized in today’s fashion. It hasn’t always been this way. In the old times “In Medieval Europe, the pattern was initially seen as very unpleasant,…