3d object design

  Remix or read-write culture describes a society in which one can take the work of one person and mash it up with the work of another or editing a previous work in some way. The ability to freely use another person's work and then transform it into your own is the primary idea behind remix culture and exists in some forms mostly online. Thingiverse is the website used to create the objects in the pictures below heavily encourages remix culture it even mentions if a piece is based on another person's previous piece. In art, it's used quite a bit with collages and other forms of artwork. Parody is arguably another example of remix culture as it involves taking another person's work and modifying it to often make it more comedic. Sampling in music is also read-write culture, for example, the band the avalanches often makes songs with hundreds of samples. when working on this project I was creatively stumped at the start and at the end but in the middle I where I felt like

 While watching the documentary one object that really stuck out to me, the grid compass designed by Bill Moggridge. I chose this laptop mostly because I thought it looked cool, the look of old computers and technology is something that I find really fascinating because of how much the look of computers has changed over the years. From bulky black rectangles to the sleek design of many laptops today. the change in the aesthetic can be also witnessed in the film when a MacBook is presented by Jonathon Ive, both are laptops but look so drastically different due to the improvement of technology over time.  when making my recreation I started off by making a large rectangular box, then I started carving out the indented lines and then the area in which the screen of the computer would be if it was flipped down. next, I worked on the flipped up part of the laptop. The screen part is just a square of a different colour made as thin as possible. To make the thin lines on the top part I used a