In product design, we were challenged to make a light box of a landscape or place that’s memorable to us. I chose to make my light box London themed—I included the London eye, Big Ben, and Tower Bridge.
after I had decided my theme, I used the adobe illustrator to make the layers of my light box(as you could see, the light box is made of layers overlapping each other). this seems very simple—drag and drop the icon downloaded online into my own file—but actually I had to adjust the size and change some of the details so that the laser cutter was able to cut it out properly. when painting the layers, I used the skill of masking, for the moon in the background, to avoid painting into areas that’s already covered with another color. putting in the LED was a lot harder than I had expected, and if I could do it again, I will stack more LED in between the background and the city layer so it looks brighter than it is now.
I think I made the layers of my light box successfully, but I could have done a better job in choosing the color for my layers. my biggest obstacle was trying to put the LEDs in place (as you could see in my final product, the light seems a bit dim).
