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paper-craft terrarium

Hey all,

Here it is, my paper-craft terrarium!

The round terrarium structure is made of paper maché, paper clay, and lots of glue. I laser cut the four pieces pieces that make the viewing box (the top/night sky, two sides, a window) that is inside of the terrarium including the round holes for the LED lights that show through at the top.

A breadboard is attached this piece which is the “night sky” and I coded the lights to fade on in synch with the sun setting. The screen is my iPhone where I uploaded a video of a beach sunset and inserted it into the window of the viewing box.

Finally, I added mini paper dune grass and a tiny wooden fence (my favorite part)! 🙂

Hi Everyone,

I am Cassandra aka Ca$$andra aks Cassy aka Cass. You can call me any of these names. Here I am hanging out on a rooftop in Park Slope:

So about me: I grew up in El Paso, Texas or as we locals like to call it El Chuco. It is a border town and one of the safest cites in the US. It is on the border with Juarez, Mexico which is one of the most dangerous cities in the world (think No Country for Old Men). I am Mexican American. Here I am as a kid:

I studied filmmaking in my undergrad education. After graduation I worked as a documentary video editor at a small studio in Berkeley. I then started working at a consulting firm–Bassett & Partners. We specialize in ethnographic research and design/brand strategy. Ingrid’s job at IDEO is similar to what I did/do except we did not do prototyping. After years of working with/for many talented designers I decided that design school was for me!

If you want to know a little bit about some of the projects I have worked on (work and personal) you can check out the portfolio section on the website I made for my application to this program here.

I am really looking forward to this class and working with all of you! Here I am in Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof aka Museum für Gegenwart. The exhibit was ryoji ikeda’s db (decibel).

Paperavioli (paper craft ravioli cutter)

My object was “Kitchen Utensil” and my descriptor was “Paper Craft.” I found a site online that described how to make a 16 pointed modular star: origami That made me think of a ravioli cutter that scores pasta. I also wanted to do something I had never done before and using the laser cutter for the first time seemed like a great way to do that!

For the handle I was inspired by Damon who ordered and assembled a deer and moose, cardboard laser cut model for our studio: cardboard safari

After printing the components I assembled and bonded the pieces. To make the ravioli cutter “semi” functional I proxy glued x-acto blades to the points in the star. Here is a slide show of some images from my process.

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Below is a demo video of the Paperavioli scoring pasta: