Layers Project – Wooden Drop For this project, I wanted to capture the moment that a water drop hits a body of water. I find this moment very beautiful where it is the intersection from the energy of a single drop spreading and dispersing into a lager body. I am using wood to capture the…
Author: Jakob
Altered Toys Project – Jakob Sperry
For this project i decided to pivot from my orognal idea because I felt like it did not express my childhood in the way that I want to. Instead i started to think about the diffrent toys that i playes with as I aged and i realized that i pretty quickly pivioted from toys into…
Altered Toys Design – Jakob Sperry
For this project I chose to show my my childhood of making Rube Goldberg machines have played a role in shaping me as an engineer. Through playing with my hands and making assemblies of subassemblies that all have to work together to preform a simple task i learned about my love for making and designing….
Lantern – Jakob Sperry
I want to make a really big one over the summer. For now this is my final version. If you watch the whole video you can see how it will change both quickly as well as slowly.
Lantern Design – Jakob Sperry
I want to make a Ping Pong ball light display that will fade in and out and flutter different colored lights. I plan to use spherical packing and make a hexagonal base that will hold an LED strip with individually controllable LED’s. I am still deciding how big to make it and how to mount…
Layers Project – Jakob Sperry
For the second version of this project, I made a more organic and fluid design. I still plan to work on the project more to add an aspect of depth. I want to stain the wood with more coats lower down so it fads to a darker shade of wood at the bottom to a…
Layers Cut – Jakob Sperry
I am pretty happy with how my piece turned out. personally I like the idea of using wood to represent a water drop because it is normally such a rigid and strong material, using it to represent a fluidity and motion is really interesting to me. Do I need more layers to properly represent the…
Layers Design – Jakob Sperry
I am taking inspiration from Jen Stark and Duffy London in my peace. I love the idea of using themes of water and transparency in my work in the way that Duffy London does. I want to incorporate the depth and color that Duffy London uses in their tables. I also love the work of…
Drawing #1: Jakob Sperry
This is a picture I took on a bike ride with my friend tommy. We both decided that we needed a break so we went to Vermont for the weekend to relax and go gravel biking. The vectorized version does not do the image justice, but this was a beautiful clay road with trees on…
Jakob Sperry: An Introduction
Hi, I’m Jakob. I am a 5’9” white male who grew up in the Boston suburbs. That being said, like everyone, that does not even start to describe who I am. I think the question “who are you” is very interesting. Sometimes the answer is simply “Jakob” and sometimes the answer takes a lifetime just…