I mentioned the student group Co-Lab a few months ago. They are a student group focused on designing and building small scale installations in and around PennDesign and Meyerson Hall. This time last year, in preparation for the 2013 Year End Show, I had the opportunity to design and build a stool to use at... Continue Reading →
Tonight PennDesign had a show to celebrate all the work done over the past school year. The centerpiece was a 'menagerie', netting which had sheets of paper hung from it to catch projected images. It provided an interesting volume for the image to inhabit, as opposed to the usual flat surface. Kudos to Eric Wong... Continue Reading →
My sister Nora celebrates her birthday today and celebrates it with a full day of rehearsals for stage productions in the DC area. She is an actress. She is very good, too. Here is a dramatic performance (improvised) from Tlemcen (northwest Algeria) in 2009 with Ami Tayeb. The amphitheater is part of the Roman ruins there... Continue Reading →
Tree eats metal bar.
Urban settings offer a lot of opportunities, with one exception being campfires. Glad to have the chance to buck that trend every now and again.
This project is being modeled in Rhino, a computer aided design software capable of sophisticated surface modeling. For this project, everything is simple extrusions to reflect the end construction material. What this type of modeling allows is for testing of design and construction. The design is finalized (for now), and the laser cut pieces are... Continue Reading →
I'm trying to keep busy after the let down that comes with final reviews ending. The next few days I will be trying to built a easily assembled coat rack designed for a very narrow hallway. It is a thank you gift for close family friends. I hope to build it out of MDF pieces prepared on... Continue Reading →
A quick goodbye to the mess and chaos of studio.
Today was my last final review, this time for Orkan Telhan's Visual Epistemologies class. I'm done! And still exhausted. Here are the remaining slides from my studio presentation from yesterday. I will update this with context and clarifications in the coming days.
Just had my final final studio review of graduate school. More deadlines on the way, so another quick post of a few slides from today. More to follow.
Adam Achrati 