Relief

Final Exam: Design Foundation Course

This week I’ll get my grade for the Design Foundation Course final exam 🙂 This is the most intensive and important exam during the first semester!

This is how it was organized:

everyone got 10-15 minutes time to present EVERYTHING he/she had done in the course of the past five months in front of two professors and one tutor
we had to point out our most important findings exclusively (no time for nostalgic reminiscences)
the six mandatory main stages of the presentation were: Moirés, reliefs, modules, transformation, cubes and a 3D Poster (I’ll introduce to you in a minute).
the bonus task was to use one of the six main topics I just mentioned and design a concept for a “real world” project

Concerning the 3D poster, we were given a word that had to be used as a basis. Mine was “depression” 😀 I decided to go for a huge moiré pattern (partially against the professor’s preferences):

Perhaps you noticed the page numbers in the lower right corner. I made a small brochure 😉

From Flat to Relief

There is one step between the 3D emphasizing patterns and creating actual 3D objects: Reliefs! In class we were given the following limitations:

use thick paper
nothing is to be cut out and excluded from the relief
format 18×18 cm
no coloring

I used some of my patterns for the reliefs without creating new ones especially for this task. This way I really had to find ways to cut pieces without cutting the whole thing apart. I advise you to print out your patterns and draw the cuts with pencil before actually cutting! This way you can prevent mistakes later on, which happened to me a few times and it was really awful having to start all over again 🙁

This is how two of my reliefs look like:

And here are the corresponding patterns:

Final Exam: Design Foundation Course

From Flat to Relief

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