Line work

This are my basic line drawings at the beginning of the week.

The Pokeball drawings, clockwise, are outline, contour, structural, and gestural.

My hand drawing. 

The Wings of Freedom, just a free sketch that I did with lines. 

To me, lines communicate anything on the human emotion spectrum. They can represent stress on a person's face, wrinkles from age, folds in the skin from smiling too much, or movement as a team chases towards victory. Lines are the epitome of human beings. 

Several Problems in the World

• Fix the air conditioning in the school--because it never works and students and teachers suffer when it gets hot 

• A big problem is civil forfeiture, where the police can just simply take your stuff just because they suspect you of a crime. What's worse, is that they get to keep it,regardless of whether you are convicted of a crime. Many families are on the streets because their houses were taken. I look to John Oliver who shows the seriousness of this.
• Another huge problem is of drone strikes, which supposedly kill terrorists, but after studies and interviews of the government, it shows they have been killing people who simply looked like terrorists. 

• Redesign the school website, as any search done in one school's website goes through the entire district.

• Stop the spread of Ebola and find a cure for it to save people and prevent future outbreaks

Another problem is the education system in this country. There is way too much stress on students to do well, but grades have become an obsession, and students cheat because they value grades over their education. And colleges are basically buisnesses, over charging students and putting them in debt for the rest of their lives.

Self Portrait

I am like Armin Arlet, from the show Attack on Titan. He is not very good at physical activities. but he is very intelligent. He can make good strategies under pressure, and thinks logically and rationally. He is very intuitive, and so is very useful in bad situations. However, he doesn't think highly of himself, and believes he is useful. I am also a logical thinker, and do well in group projects and solving. However, I know my worth, and am optimistic. I believe that winging things won't work when it matters, and so does he. I am also supportive of my friends, and they think of me first for help. What this means for design is that I take a lot of time to think, and to draw concepts, and so my projects will spend a lot of time in the planning stage before they become reality. However, this also means that my projects will be good quality, and not rushed or shoddily-built. My goals for this class are: to finish a physical project with integrity, have a beautiful blogger, and to get good at Inventor. In conclusion, Armin Arlet, while not a designer, is my kind of inspiration as a designer. Now if I could just get that blonde hair. 

Product Improvement

Our introductory page, with basics laid out

The two modes, drawn in detail

   Amijot and I worked on this. We decided to improve the treadmill. We noticed that nobody uses a treadmill after a few days,which ways money, time, and is a guilt trip for people. 

IDEA: Design a treadmill that has a built-in HD screen, has Internet, and USB and charger ports. However, the Internet and TV only activate get a certain amount of minutes at a certain speed. The faster/larger you run, the faster the download speed. It has two versions: one with a regular small HD screen with physical buttons, and a more expensive, full HD widescreen touchscreen with every feature in the UI. The more exxpensive model comes with AC, USB, and outlets, too as standard.

Team Hydra's First Project

Hydra Bridge, at 51.5 cm

Team Hydra's first project! It's 51.5 cm. Its connected using simple slits between each piece. The original design was to be a slide, but we didn't have enough time. Me, Austyn Coffil, Austin Adams, and Ganesh Ramakrishnan worked on it. It spent a lot of time in the concept and brainstorming phase, so we barely did any testing. However, we had a lot of teamwork, so we had a lot of fun. We could have folded the edges to create walls to keep the balls from touching the table. Only by brainstorming we created this design.