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TEAM ADIDAS
Roster: Dexter Sulit, Claudia Lopez, Daniel Raes and Marcus Taylor (CMF)
Two weeks down and we’re still going strong. I couldn’t tell you how many hours the other students and I put in this week. I can safely say that it is over 12 hours a day though. It takes discipline and consistency to become a better designer and produce good work. It’s not always easy and we’re often tired but we love what we’re doing. One of the students was leaving the studio late at night and asked when we were going to leave, I replied that we would leave when we achieved our dreams. Now this isn’t practical but it’s certainly the mindset that you have to be in to get where you want to be no matter where that is. We’ve been sketching non-stop and will continue to do so through this week. The only difference is that now we will be asked the difficult questions, like why we chose a design element or how it would work. Each day brings us closer to the final critique and the potential for our dreams to come true.
Here’s a look at some inspiration for my project. These are Stingray hides at the Oregon Leather Co. down the street. Here is an actual dyed stingray skeleton. The amount of amazing things you can find in nature and animals is astonishing. Here’s a look at some of my sketches inspired by the stingray. I took elements from its skin, its electrical field sensing ampullae and the network of cartilage that forms its skeleton.-Daniel Raes
