Princeton University
VIS 215: Graphic Design: Typography
Typesetting Sheila Levant
12/11/22
I typeset Sheila Levant de Bretteville's text to reflect her argument of approaching design from a feminine point of view. I designed the layout to reflect how I approached reading this text.
Recreating Muriel Cooper
11/7/22
On InDesign, I recreated Muriel Cooper's text by matching the typeface, soft returning spaces, and paying close attention to the placement of letters.
Typesetting Laszlo Maholy-Nagy
10/10/22
Using only paper, glue, a knife, and a xerox machine, I designed a layout that would bring out the main message in each paragraph of Maholy-Nagy's piece "The New Typography."
Manually Typesetting "Story of Your Life"
10/3/22
My classmate and I manually put metal letters into a galley to produce the following page from "Story of Your Life," a short science fiction story about aliens and language. I learned to read backwards and upside down.
VIS 222: Sculpture I
Project Forge: The Ram
5/5/22
I shaped a steel rod as tall as I was (5' 4") into an abstract ram because I was born in the year of the sheep. My project also resembles a uterus, thus exploring how femininity and masculinity coexist.
Project Fabric: The Enchantress
4/8/22
I sewed a cloak for the first time, joining three different pieces of fabric together. The velvet green is the same color as my favorite dress when I was a child, and I have always loved fantastical things.
Project Recognition: Me, Myself, and I
3/26/22
I rendered my creation process—connecting with the world (the cat), dreaming (the dragon), and drawing (the human)—out of a never hardening clay.
Project Accretion and Project Box: Confluence
3/2/22 - 5/6/22
Confluence is my first and last project. The first box project I completed with my friend: we turned a large plywood board into a maze game. The goal is to get a golf ball (a thought) from the top of one head (the shape on the end) to the other. Sometimes, connection is instantaneous, so the ball can go straight through, but other times, our meaning gets lost in translation, so the ball can get stuck in the maze in the middle.
For Project Accretion, I painted our box to visualize the movement of thoughts and energies during the game, or conversation. Abstract ideas in our heads become tangibles beyond us before returning to abstract signals in the mind of another.
Project Walk: Dreamwalker
2/3/22
One day, I noticed that our neural pathways and The Laniakea Supercluster look similar—how wondrous that our thoughts are akin to the universe! To explore how we walk through our minds, I sculpted a brain with the soul as a butterfly, which was inspired by the Chinese idiom "庄周梦蝶(Zhuāng Zhōu Mèng Dié)." Zhuāng Zhōu dreams that he is a butterfly so vividly that upon awakening, he is unsure if he is the man or the butterfly. The butterfly also references the butterfly effect, showing how our small actions—our thoughts or a butterfly's wings flapping—can create significant changes.
FRS 106: Art and Science of Motorcycle Design
Triumph Terrier 1954 Class Hoodie and Crewneck
4/6/22
I designed a class gear featuring my motorcycle design and our classmate's names.
Triumph Terrier 1954 Detailing Work
5/2/22
I sandblasted, repaired, and painted parts of an old motorcycle and added glow-in the dark rim tape, working together with my detailing team and classmates. Below is our class wearing my gear design and my Detailing Team's weekly progress log.
COS 126: Computer Science, An Interdisciplinary Approach
Final Project
5/4/22
My partner and I made a Pokémon-inspired game where preceptors battle each other with their computer science knowledge. I created the graphics and coded the game mechanics.
VIS 218: Fall 2021
Graphic Design: Image
Project Reader: "An Archive of Answers"
12/16/21
I created a book of people's reactions to different prompts. I first said words such as "love," "peace," and "hope," to everyone. Then, I recorded people's responses to questions and compliments.
Project Clock: "Zodiac Music Clock"
11/15/21
When I discovered that there were 12 Chinese Zodiac animals, 12 Western Zodiac signs, and 12 notes on the Chromatic scale, I combined all three to make a 12-hour clock without any numbers. The music changes each time the second-hand reaches a new Chinese Zodiac animal. The background is a visualization of the music and inverts when the second-hand makes half a revolution, symbolizing yin and yang.
Project Printer: "The E-Motion Machine"
10/24/21, 10/31/21
I translated movements to color.
Below are two performance videos.
Project View: "Macro and Micro"
9/26/21
I took a walk with my classmate around Princeton's campus, and we each took pictures of our views at different locations. I distilled our walk down to macro and micro images.
FRS 127: Fall 2021
Body Builders: Living Systems as Arts Media
"The I in Immortality"
12/7/21
For the final project, my teammates and I explored the idea of immortality by creating a 3D game. Bacillus F, a biologically immortal bacterium that can help mice live longer and stay fertile, is the protagonist who searches for telomeres and telomerase. Telomeres act like shoelace caps for our chromosomes, protecting our DNA during cell replication, and telomerase repairs telomeres.
I used TwoTone and Typatone to sonify the data from Bacillus F DNA, human telomeres, and telomerase to examine how bacteria would react to acquiring telomeres and telomerase. Then, I composed a song with the sonified data and my flute music in GarageBand. I also created the graphics for our project.
"Heartbeat Duotone"
11/3/21
For my first data sonification project, I turned data of my resting and active heart rates as well as those of my classmate to music. My heart rates (collected while I danced to Glass Animal’s “Heat Waves”) form the melody, while those of my friend (collected while he exercised) form the bass.
I used TwoTone and Garageband to compose the song, which encourages us to cherish the present and the people important to us. Also, the contrast of the different heart rates symbolizes how different movements and people can work together to create beautiful memories and moments.