3 Layer Screen print on paper intended for both a print and textile.

After working out some functionality and purpose of shape with the foam core and foam prototype, Ryan and I decided to move into more substantial materials to help legitimize the interactions and the possible reality of the prototype. We moved into mocking up the table with the workable materials of Masonite and Acrylic. We built in a controller hiding place and cove. We then made the light sensors used to activate the 3 zone as seamless as possible with the look of the desk.

As the NET Desk concept of linked paper started to evolve, Ryan and I started to utilize more and more sketching to get across quickly to each other what thing might start to look like. In order for us to Rapidly Prototype we started to rapidly sketch ideas until both of us rested on functionality and looks that served both aesthetic function but also interaction. We then moved to building a prototype using quick and simple materials that allowed us to quickly move through ideas using foam core, foam and light sensors we could quickly get to a semi functional desk, which allowed us to understand the usefulness of our actions and user interface up to that point.

Twelve from Christopher Becker on Vimeo.

Inspired by the 12 song on Sesame Street. PBS and Sesame Street has been a very large impact on my creativity and drive to be a creative thinker

Design a lamp hanging or standing around a 75 watt bulb. I chose to work with the shape of a mobius strip. The shape was inspired by me reading of Einstein’s Dreams. The Möbius strip is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It is also a ruled surface. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius. I attempted to widen the width of curtain sections of the plainer surface at which the bulb could fit into. The Möbius strip is one of the move difficult shapes to work with because the inside become the outside and vice versa.

Sound Scan : Animated Line from Christopher Becker on Vimeo.