Live Catch Mouse Trap

For the first project in my Industrial Design course, I had to create a live catch mouse trap. The model had to be crafted out of illustration board, but if it were manufactured it be made from flat plastic. No glue was used, except for the mechanism, and it doesn't harm the mouse in any way.

Ideally, the mouse would run up the ramp and try to eat the food that is placed on the platform which is held up by sensitive magnets. When the mouse places its weight on the platform, it drops down into the chamber below and the suspended roof covers the top.

Here's the model completely disassembled.

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Spaceship Model

This is my spaceship model. It took a ton of time to make, mostly because of the complicated measurements. I made the model with a lot of triangles so I put my old grade 11 trigonometry to good use. I made it out of illustration board; the two small bumps on the sides of the model are googly eyes and the laser cannon things on the head of the ship are some strange doodads I found in my house.

Here's the structural drawing I made of the model.

Scale Juxtaposition

This was the first 2-D project I did for class and the only one I actually liked. As you can see, I placed an astronaut inside a lava lamp.

Victorian Facade

It has been so long since my last post that I almost forgot about this entire blog thing. In the meantime, I have added many pieces to my collection so now I can actually reopen my page with more content!

For this project, I was supposed to create a scale model of the front of an old Victorian house. Victorian houses are generally defined as all houses built from 1837-1901, during the reign of Queen Victoria. Lucky for me, my own home happens to be a Victorian building, built in 1895 to be exact. I live in a semi detached house so the model is cut off on the left side.
The scale of the model is 1/4 inch equals 1 foot on the actual house and I made it out of illustration board and mayfair paper.

Here's my obligatory perspective drawing.

Serial Planes

 My second model project was on serial planes. The goal is to take a shape and repeat it while it slowly morphs to create one large form. I had to create a pattern of many 2-D shapes to make one 3-D figure. It's entirely made out of foamcore and glue. I made it without any major difficulties, unless you count the loss of sleep...

 I used greyscale markers to shade my perspective drawing this time.

Paper Sculptures

For my first post, I thought I 'd show the first project I made. The assignment was called "Space and Motion" and we had to make two paper sculptures. One sculpture had to show movement or imbalance while the other remained motionless and balanced.

 This is my static sculpture. It took me a while to figure out the measurements for this one. There was a lot more math involved than I had expected. It wasn't perfect but I was happy with the outcome.

 This is my dynamic sculpture. It took way less time to complete than the other one. I don't think it showed movement or imbalance very well but I thought it looked cool so I did it anyways. I cut a peach into slices and placed them together to see how it would look before I made it. I don't know why, but I like to think that it helped.

For every project we have to do a perspective drawing in pencil, so this was mine.