During product design, I designed a lightbox with a place. I made a lightbox of a New Zealand Sea. I went to New Zealand 2 years ago. I went to New Zealand, and the Sea surprised me a lot. IT was fabulous, the seal was just sitting on a rock, and a fishing boat was going out to the sea. My family and I were supposed to travel to New Zealand this year, but we couldn’t go there because of the serious pandemic. Therefore, I decided to make a lightbox about the New Zealand sea with the ship and a seal on a rock.

In making the lightbox, my biggest obstacle, and the most interesting thing to do was using Adobe Illustrator. It was my first time using this application to make my lightbox. I learned a lot, too.  I learned about making specific dimension shapes, combining two shapes, making round the corners, and expanding/ tracing a picture.

My biggest success is that the LED part. It was hard for me to do the LEDs to what I wanted to be. I failed to make it perfect a lot of times, but at last, I finally succeeded. I glued some spacers on my layers’ backside, and I bind the LED line around the spacers.  So that when someone looks at my lightbox, they will see no LED lines, only a boat, a seal on a rock, and the sea. It was satisfying to me.

A one-piece that I would give to future students who will make a lightbox is that when we are painting with different colors in one layer, we should definitely use masking tape. When I was painting, masking tape helped me alto. It made me color the layers more accurately and smoothly. It will help people paint a lot.

Overall, I say my lightbox was a success; it looked mostly how I planned it before. Even though there are some parts, it was new and difficult for me, but I overcame these challenges. I am proud of myself.