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When thinking about my project I thought about my hobbies and my physical traits. I decided to focus on my hobby of playing the guitar. I came up with the idea of a retractable guitar that I feel represents the feeling of pride I have when playing the guitar. I also made a baseball glove with writing on the inside to entertain like a book because I play baseball. For my glasses I related the idea of fragileness to my object as my glasses are fragile. I made a retractable guitar to convey my pride when playing the guitar. The pride of playing my guitar comes from all the time and practice I put into learning how to make good music. When you first meet me you wouldn’t know all the practice I’ve put into playing my guitar but when I perform I can display my ability to play. The guitar shows its neck like I show off playing guitar. At first you wouldn’t be able to see the neck of the guitar but after retracting the neck you could see the entire guitar. I made a baseball glove with writing on the inside so as to entertain the wearer. I did this because when playing in the outfield in a little league game not many baseballs are hit in your direction. You could write text to a book page on the inside or a poem to keep you entertained while playing outfield. For my glasses I made a potted plant. My glasses, like a plant, are delicit. A plant can easily be broken and needs the right conditions to grow. To connect them I made the plant in the pot have lenses instead of leaves. I have broken a pair of glasses before so I see this as a strong connection for me. When I look at the plant I see the connection between the two fragile objects. 

Over the studio I got better at a couple of things. I improved on sketching ,working with cardboard prototypes, and storyboarding to create a story around an object. I made a lot of different sketches for my project to convey the look and shape of the object I was trying to make. I did this with the guitar when I sketched the guitar and comparing it to a peacock. I’ve made lots of cardboard prototypes with rough drafts of how the real object would work. An example of this is the retractable guitar I made and the glove I made out of cardboard. To retract the guitar neck I used zip ties so the neck could slide up and down the guitar back. These cardboard prototypes helped me flesh out my ideas about how the object should look and work.