This is some of the work I've done at university. I do B Design and these are from the second semester of my first year.

Topographic map (with dinosaur bone embedded into it) This is made of corrugated cardboard and was all cut out with a scalpel. We were given a map to replicate in 3D. We had to embed a form made of foamcore into it, and I thought a dinosaur bone would be cool, and that is the white thing you see.

Thing made of balsa I did not design this; I only built it. This particular form was given to us to be built so that we'd have a hard time doing it: there are two circles, there are non-90 degree angles, there is a rod shaped like a chopstick (square on one end and round on the other end), the point of which fits into a tiny 2mm hole.

Conceptual studies of Persian Paradise Carpets The Paradise carpet depicts paradise in the Islamic religion. There is a garden, and a central fountain from which four rivers flow, a river each of water, milk, wine and honey. Values/states/stages of the human journey towards paradise are attached to each of these rivers: for water, life and consciousness; milk, growth; wine, fruitition; and for honey, perpetuity. This is a universal journey, and somewhere in my head it works really well with Taoism, and also somewhere in my head, the two images above have something to do with this description - hopefully you can draw at least part of that connection for yourself. There is a reason I used a bowl (with holes) as a metaphor, although that bit is open to interpretation.

Conceptual studies of the piece of music Different Trains by Steve Reich Steve Reich, the composer of this piece of music, was a Jew who grew up in the USA in the early 1940s. He used to go on train journeys from New York, to Chicago, to LA, and only later realised that if he was in Europe at the time, he would have been riding very "different trains," those which led to the Nazi concentration camps. One side is joyful and innocent, and set in the USA. The other is a map of the lower half of Poland. Darker, sharper angles, and lines leading right into Auschwitz. I looked at these parallel journeys in two very different worlds.

Staedtler compass click here (this was too big for this page) This was my first project using the CAD program Vectorworks. We had to replicate an object and I did this Staedtler compass.

page 2 of uni work from 2005 copyright [email protected]. pay me and i will paint you something.