Team No Limits - Week #1

Welcome to the blog for Team No Limits! In this blog, we will post a weekly update that shows how the bench project is progressing. Our group is called "No Limits" because it was fitting name for the space theme, but also it ties-in with how we are on a college campus, and how there are basically no limits to our education and what we can achieve in our time here.

Team No Limits with the finished bench
From left to right: Lexi, Haley, Marguerite, and Nick

For our design, we wanted to do something that very graphically represented space and the universe. We wanted to do something that would slightly resemble a comic book. While we were brainstorming ideas, we started looking at Roy Lichtenstein paintings, and found one of a sun. We thought it was very interesting how he flattened the image with Benday dots (small dots commonly used in comic books that give the illusion of solid color through a pattern).

We thought something like this would be very easy to make stencils for. We decided our composition would be dominated by a sun and its large rays. After many preliminary sketches, we finally decided on an arrangement where the sun would be in one corner, and be balanced by a large planet at the other end.

We added some rough ideas of adding a few more planets, some stars, a moon and a space ship to add some depth, and give more variety to our composition. We will add more fully realized images of these in our Adobe Illustrator studies in posts to come.

These are some original concept sketches for the spaceship and overall bench design:

Original sketches by Nick

- Marguerite Davidson