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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. It definitely feels odd to conclude the project after weeks of working on it since each week I am always thinking about how I could make…

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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. So after watching some other kinetic typography work and learning up some tricks and skills on YouTube, I scratched a lot of ideas and decided…

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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. This assignment is to challenge us to think about different ways we can convey emotions through typefaces, shapes, colors, and…

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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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