Making Our Grid System : Part 2

In reference to Part 1 of making our own grid system. We had to use what we are influenced by and making our grid system and show case this grid in a mock up of a design.

With that, I choose to use my musical influence to make this design. We had to have a topic to which we would use to showcase this grid. e.g like

• Lights and shadows
• Reflection
• Transparency

Such examples/topics were to be used. For mine, i chose Reflection. The reason i used reflection was not because it is the bouncing of light by first understanding but it also acts a synonym in a way that we reflect things in our daily life. Reflecting this would help with the idea and concepts and actually make them happen. So this was a double sided concept, showcase the grid system and also reflect my ideas towards this design.

After taking note with that, i took where i saw grid system in my musical influence and i chose the microphone. It was clear that you could see a grid system on a microphone so i wanted to showcase this using reflection.

The image above shows this grid i was going to show using the topic of reflection. For starters reflection is defined by the bouncing of light off a medium. Hence i was going to have a model that would need to have light passed onto this medium which is a mirror then bounce light off a grid.

So to make this i used the following materials:

• Mesh
• Cutters/Scissors
• Box/cardboard
• Tape
• Glue
• Colored paper
• Manila 
• Mirror
• Light source

Having these materials i set out to make this design. It was going to have a a hole through one section of the cardboard where the grid system would be placed and then at the bottom, have the mirror and then when light hits the mirror, it relfects off the grid 'gate' and onto a medium like a wall, paper so we could see this.

After showing my idea to my lecture, he explained that the grid system is not by simply having normal straight lines that show. But to mix it all up like what if you tilt this that way, move this, add another layer here and there. So with that help, i added a mesh where it would show more "detailed" grid. By this you could see multiple lines of a grid through the same idea i had. 

To showcase this, i simply added my mesh that i had and put it ontop of the mirror and then when the light source hit the mirror, it was going to reflect this light off two grids, one on the mirror and one through the cardboard box hole.