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May 6, 2021

Wearables Final Project: Fog glasses

For my final project, I decided to explore the topic of body image by creating a pair of glasses that will block the user’s vision if it detects a mirror. My inspiration came from my personal experience and conversations with other friends surrounding body image. Growing up, I never felt…

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Wearables Final Project: Fog glasses
Wearables Final Project: Fog glasses

May 4, 2021

Visual Design A5: Type in Motion pt.4

This week, I focused on adding some details and finalizing my draft from last week according to some of the feedback I have received. …

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Apr 28, 2021

Visual Design A5: Type in Motion pt.3

Coming into week three of this assignment, I am definitely feeling some stress and fatigue working with the same material for the past two weeks. …

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Apr 20, 2021

Visual Design A5: Type in Motion pt.2

After putting together some ideas on contents and layouts for my project, I got some valuable feedback on how I should move forward this week. I realized that my storyboard didn’t include some important details like my font choices, transitions, and layout. So this week, one of the first things…

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Visual Design A5: Type in Motion pt.2
Visual Design A5: Type in Motion pt.2

Apr 13, 2021

Visual Design A5: Type in Motion

This week marks the start of our motion design project: Type in Motion. We are asked to represent a chosen dialogue, conversation, or speech in only texts and basic shapes. …

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Visual Design A5: Type in Motion
Visual Design A5: Type in Motion

Apr 7, 2021

Wearables: Making a soft switch

This week we are making a switch using sewable materials. I decided to make something similar to what I did for the midterm by using pressure as a trigger. I imagine the switch would be constructed using some foam/cotton stuffed in a pocket. So I put some conductive tape on…

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Wearables: Making a soft switch
Wearables: Making a soft switch

Apr 6, 2021

Visual Design A4: Design Systems pt.4

This week marks the end of our 4-week long project Design Systems. For this assignment, we had to design a poster, article spread, and website landing page for a hypothetical symposium taking place at NYU. …

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Visual Design A4: Design Systems pt.4
Visual Design A4: Design Systems pt.4

Mar 31, 2021

Visual Design A4: Design Systems pt.3

After settling down some key concepts and sketching out my poster design, I got some great feedback and made some minor tweaks to the poster.

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Visual Design A4: Design Systems pt.3
Visual Design A4: Design Systems pt.3

Mar 24, 2021

Visual Design A4: Design Systems pt.2

Hearing some feedback from last week’s sketches, I decided to go further with my ideas and come up with more iterations of my initial idea. I went back to the title again and began to think about other ways I can add more meaning to it. I asked myself, what…

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Visual Design A4: Design Systems pt.2
Visual Design A4: Design Systems pt.2

Mar 17, 2021

Wearables: Project 1-Creative data tracking

For our first creative project, we are making a wearable device that deals with data tracking. Because this project is very similar to our low-tech wearable assignment, I decide to extend that idea and see if I can take it to the next level. A couple of weeks ago, I…

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Wearables: Project 1-Creative data tracking
Wearables: Project 1-Creative data tracking
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