This semester, in product design, we designed a light-box and decorated it with places special to us. After a few classes, I decided to decorate my light-box with a scene from Niagara falls. I choose Niagara falls for my project because it is one of the best places I have ever been to.

My biggest obstacle was designing layers with illustrator, It was very difficult and I always needed help from others. In the beginning, I didn’t know how to make shapes and change sizes. Because of this, I took forever to design my layers. However, I eventually learned how to use illustrator and successfully laser printed the layers.

Something I learned during this project was using illustrator. After class after class of struggling with illustrator, I finally learned how to use it in the end.  I learned many things like making shapes, rounding corners, deleting and adding parts (etc).

Something I would change is painting my layers, I felt like the color of my layers weren’t very accurate, I should have spent more time discovering the correct colors before I painted. If I could redo my painting, I definitely would.

Overall, I think my light-box was a success because I recreated the scene pretty accurately and I am proud of it. In conclusion, I think I did a good job overall but there is still room for improvement.