It was really this past week where I did the majority of the work on the project because I just finalized my design about six days ago. Looking back, I wish I had approached this smarter so I wouldn’t have to make so many origami balls (I only used 400) or order so many lights….

This past week I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted my final design to look like. With the help of some friends, I was able to start the design and implementation of a 6.5 foot diameter light mural. So far, I have strung 200 of the 600 lights onto the wall….

This past Friday the paper for my project came in. I don’t know how it happened, but I seemed to have ordered the wrong size. The paper is much smaller than I originally intended. I could have returned the paper in exchange for a larger size but I wanted to get started on the folding…

For my project, I have decided on a gradient In experimenting with different paper sizes I’ve decided that I like the look of the 3 inch square paper better than the 6 inch. The smaller origami balls make it so that it’s more difficult to see the flaws from folding the paper.design where I will…

As I was looking through projects from previous classes, I came across a very unique one that I would love to make myself. It is an origami light mural. It consists of 780 origami balls of either white, blue, or grey and each one is on an LED light. I thought this was a great…

Leo Villareal is an American light artist who works primarily with LEDs and coding to create rhythmic illuminated displays. He achieves the desired outcome by focusing on the small details of the system, namely the pixels and binary code. Using his own custom software, Leo is able to manipulate parameters such as opacity, speed, and…

Hi! My name is Liz Rocco and I am from Queens, New York. Growing up around New York City, I was heavily influenced by architecture at a young age. The Manhattan skyline is one of my favorite views and I have a dangerous habit of staring at it when I drive across the bridge to…