Experiments

Stardust II

After the conceptualization part of the process, I started to visualize the installation. I created the following model using animation + projection mapping of how Stardust would look and feel. I also did visual research and found the project Delicate Boundaries by Chris Sugrue beautiful and inspiring. The work by Yayoi Kusama was an inspiration…

Final Piece: Stardust I

“The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust.”       –Lawrence M. Krauss I…

From the beginning…

I’ve been thinking on what got me to this Master’s in the first place. Why did I propose the project I did, and I have spent the last two years experimenting, researching and reaching out of my comfort zone. (These thoughts also come back when I’m in need of motivation). The reason I wanted to…

Sketchbook Project: Done!

It’s like a road trip, but with sketchbooks. Finally! I enrolled into The Sketchbook Project as part of my design process for my MA project. I found it motivating to have a blank page, a theme and a deadline. I tried to fill in the sketchbook with ideas/concepts/visual material about emergence, reality, technology and design.…
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Norwegian Wood

Exploring Tactility In the week that I experimented with the laser-cutter at school, I decided to make something for my good friend and old flatmate Pato, who got married a month ago. Being unable to attend the ceremony back in Mexico, I chose to do something that they could touch and smell and that represented…

Project Cardboard

I know I’ve been talking a lot about these new cool Augmented Reality glasses Google’s Project Glass demoed recently. Even the Book of the Week (The End of Hardware) reflected the hands-free, future-is-now approach. And of course, I couldn’t help but share it with friends. I made a very “quick and dirty” prototyping experiment: create these…