2025
Shape Shifter
A university project with the premise: "take one system and reverse engineer it into something new"
In my case, "skeuomorphism" - the design system of using physical elements in digital interfaces, by representation or material metaphor
e.g, things that look like:
From which I ended up making:
The idea behind this project was to reverse the concept of skeuomorphism (physical -> digital) to bring a sort of uncanny feeling to seeing the UI elements we are used to every day
And so, I took some photos to show this reversed shift from digital -> physical
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I made them using a mix of 3D printing (the ON/OFF case), vacuum moulding (iMessage bubble) and laser cut acrylic stacked for everything else, in varying finishes
Pretty cool, right?