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    Spray Bottle of Disgust

    Chris Perry and 2 OthersLily Smith
    Trey Walters

    DISGUSTING SPRAY BOTTLE

    Lily + Trey

    1 / 15

    This is me and Lily's project and were had to make a spray bottle with disgust. With this, we didn't know how to have a spray bottle make you feel disgusted. We thought about the texture and we also thought about the touch and the smell. We decided to go with sight. We thought we could make the bottle make you feel disgusted by the size of the different shapes. 

    The Resistance Weight

    Victoria Haggins - Wright and Chloe Goodman

    THE RESISTANCE WEIGHT

    Chloe Goodman + Victoria Haggins

    1 / 18

    Our project is a dumbbell (or weight, if you prefer) that gives you a personalized, customizable workout that will make you feel accomplished no matter what your skill level. 

    To start off, we were given a prompt; a dumbbell that makes you feel accomplished, so we went and brainstormed some different ideas. We ended up making a dumbbell that is attached to the pedal and string, and when you push the pedal, a rachet (a spinning mechanism) attached to the string spins, and the string gets shorter, making you work harder in order to lift the weight. This way, you have more resistance and a personalized workout. 

    You can have our dumbbell at home, and at the gym. Anywhere you want to work out, you can have it. It also has a small button you can click; letting you keep track of how much you pressed, and giving you a unique sensory experience - letting you feel the button and hear the click as an accomplishment each time you lift the dumbbell. 

    However, our devices' main purpose is to let anyone - even the elderly - have personalized workout routines to help them get healthier and feel better about themselves. Exercising can help your mental health, get you healthier, improve your brain health (memory and such) help manage weight (no one deserved to feel bad about their appearance), reduces the risk of diseases, strengthens bones and muscles, improves your ability to do everyday activities, and lots more. If our dumbbell can contribute to and help someone's mental and physical health, I would say our project is a success.

    Emotionland

    Jaime Christopher Vidaurrazaga and Eli Falkson

    Emotionland

    Christopher and Eli

    1 / 13

    Humorous Bench

    Bodhi Bragonier and Jasmine Horowitz

    Humorous Bench

    Bodhi Bragonier + Jasmine Horowitz

    1 / 18

    To generate the final project we put different words, such as emotions, interactions, and objects into a random script to put them together. The prompt that we got from this script was "The bench that feels humorous when you look at it". We interpreted this as a 'funny bench', which we took very seriously (pause for laughter). We then began brainstorming benches that are unexpected and unusual. Our hope was that these could be interpreted as interesting art or as a simple curiosity seen on the street. We hoped this would help uplift the spirits of busy city-goers with a simple chuckle.

    Disgusting Spray Bottle

    Chris Perry and Lily Smith

    DISGUSTING SPRAY BOTTLE

    Lily + Trey

    1 / 15

                 The goal of this project was to learn more about abstraction, and practice how to get there. This was also an opportunity to learn how to use new materials and tools that can be used in the future. 

                This project started out with an activity to remember and write down random objects, emotions, senses, and interactions. Those were then all shuffled into a generator to create random sentences. The sentence that this project was based on was “When you blow on the spray bottle you feel disgust and uncertainty.” The next step was to make twenty or more sketches of what a disgusting and unusual spray bottle may look like. To do this, the shapes of a normal spray bottle were switched out for ones usually seen as disgusting, and the normal sizes of the parts of a spray bottle were completely switched around. To continue, twenty models made out of foam were made going off of the sketches. The goal here was to make the spray bottle look very abstract and create some uncertainty. Finally, once the models were all made and the pictures were taken, the spray bottle that portrayed the most disgusting feeling and uncertainty was chosen.

    Rose Tint

    Nada Elsonni and 3 OthersMiriam Altman
    Beckett Munson
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    Rose Tint

    Miriam, Beckett, Hide

    1 / 18

    Rose Tint: an interactive sculpture that aims to show multiple approaches to the same situation. 

    This sculpture shows a person on a bridge with multiple paths inside an infinity mirror. It represents the positive outlook to the exciting element of infinite possibilities under a "rose tint". A lever representing fear of failure takes away the rose tint to show the person falling off the bridge. This project is made out of popsicle sticks, string, mirrors, colored gels, cardboard, wood, and leds. 

    Joyful Saw

    Chris Perry and 2 OthersSasha Lee
    Grayson Strickler

    Joyful Saw

    Grayson and Sasha

    1 / 16

                The goal was to take a sentence and create an object that somehow represents the task in the sentence. In this case, the sentence was a "saw that makes you remember joy."  


                The first step was to start out by choosing an image and corresponding the image choices with other people to find partners. The second step was sketching ideas for what the object could/might look like. After cutting shapes out of foam they were pinned together in different ways and photographed to experiment with a variety of forms. After that was done the final model was chosen out of the array of photos. 

    The Resistance Weight

    Victoria Haggins - Wright and Chloe Goodman

    THE RESISTANCE WEIGHT

    Chloe Goodman + Victoria Haggins

    1 / 18

    Our project is a dumbbell (or weight, if you prefer) that gives you a personalized, customizable workout that will make you feel accomplished no matter what your skill level. 

    To start off, we were given a prompt; a dumbbell that makes you feel accomplished, so we went and brainstormed some different ideas. We ended up making a dumbbell that is attached to the pedal and string, and when you push the pedal, a rachet (a spinning mechanism) attached to the string spins, and the string gets shorter, making you work harder in order to lift the weight. This way, you have more resistance and a personalized workout. 

    You can have our dumbbell at home, and at the gym. Anywhere you want to work out, you can have it. It also has a small button you can click; letting you keep track of how much you pressed, and giving you a unique sensory experience - letting you feel the button and hear the click as an accomplishment each time you lift the dumbbell. 

    However, our devices' main purpose is to let anyone - even the elderly - have personalized workout routines to help them get healthier and feel better about themselves. Exercising can help your mental health, get you healthier, improve your brain health (memory and such) help manage weight (no one deserved to feel bad about their appearance), reduces the risk of diseases, strengthens bones and muscles, improves your ability to do everyday activities, and lots more. If our dumbbell can contribute to and help someone's mental and physical health, I would say our project is a success.

    ragio

    Coffy lessig and Verity Gould

    MAKING SENSE

    OF DESIGN

    Coffy + Verity

    1 / 16

    "An object that makes you look angry when you hear it". That is the Ragio, a specialized radio that you can adjust your political leaning on so that it tunes to the hottest of takes from people whose opinions are wrong (according to you, the user). All it will do is infuriate you, and honestly, isn't a good bit of unbridled hatred all any of us want?

    All the models were made out of foam, with some featuring toothpicks, pins, wires, and that one weird one with all the pipe cleaners. The final model we chose was intended to resemble a vintage radio (because everything anyone said before you came along was wrong) with imagery of an angry face with the antenna. The three dials would be used to set your political leaning and preferences, were this to be a functioning object.

    Backpfeifengesicht

    Ari Sinert and Ari Sinert

    MAKING SENSE

    OF DESIGN - Backpfeifengesicht


    Ari Sinert + Bean Armstrong

    1 / 14

    The Backpfeifengesicht was a project Bean Armstrong and I worked on during our making sense of design studio. The goal of this studio was the understand the fundamental principles of design by applying them to our own projects. 

    Both Bean and I got two randomized sentences as a prompt to base our projects on. We were paired together as we both had similar prompts and worked well together.

    Our final project for the studio, dubbed the Backpfeifengesicht (german) was a pillow that screams when you press it. Our intention was to teach little kids empathy through the fact that everyone feels pain.