This is the final post for my Humanities and Arts Practicum!The technical concept of my design was inspired by the music toy box and kaleidoscope: the toys of my childhood. This purely mechanical construction was powered by the winding mechanism with the key placed outside of the wooden box. Therefore, the key’s release produced the…

This week I faced dozens of problems related to this project and its assembly, so I had to redo almost everything I was working on..I understand that it is a normal process of learning but it gave me really hard time.So, almost last minute, I had to change the way my mechanism will make the…

The biggest problem I’ve faced this week is the problem of making colorful semi-transparent disks that will rotate with certain frequencies to create a single overlapped picture. So, this week I’ve made some progress on creation of those disks, as well as ordered some of the necessary materials and samples.Here you can see my first…

Hello to everyone! Here I have two concepts to share with all of you and I would love to hear some feedback or adds to the current designs! Design one: Dandelion Flower The sketch I have above is a detailed visual representation of an idea I have from the first day of this class. It…

Carnovsky is a Milan based art and design duo comprised of Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla.Francesco is an art historian and Silvia is an industrial designer, so Carnovsky is actuallythe result of these different backgrounds and biographies. “Color est e pluribus unus” is one of their slogans for their art works. In the poem “Moretum”,…