"Leave Your Mark", Product Design using Co2 Laser and 3D printing
While working at the BobCatMade Makerspace Lab, I completed this product #design challenge in my Digitally Handmade for Artists and Designers course at Texas State University. 🎨
Our final was to create a tool that “left our mark” and its packaging. The overall theme was inspired by my family and Black farm-life.
Reference: It was 2019. Solange Knowles' visuals for “When I Get Home” had just come out. She reclaimed the cowboy archetype and what it means to be a Black Cowboy in the American West. 📍🤠
PROCESS:
I #lasercut my signature (2 styles of it) into a piece of soft linoleum and created a stamp. I #3D printed some white plastic for its handle. The stamp-handle combo was then "packaged" in a stack of pivoting lasercut horseshoes and a tan 3D-printed plastic base.
Each wooden and acrylic horseshoe revealed a layer of what makes me who I am. I etched (burned) some family portraits into them, a selfie, a butcher chart, some Bible verses, the “Be Someone” sign in #Houston and other identifying marks of my persona. This was my favorite studio course in undergrad for sure. My professor was a working artist herself and was a great mentor to me.
Check out the video that inspired me to also get back to my roots below!
This is the geolocation of the famous Sugarloaf Mtn. with apart of it covering my families land. It is a frequent stop for Texas A&M students to climb on the weekends, that is, when snake sightings are low.
