Illustrator
To make our key chains and are vinyl decor we will be using the software Illustrator.
Illustrator is a program where you can make vector designs. It is a design based software
you can create logos and pretty much anything on it.
Illustrator is a program where you can make vector designs. It is a design based software
you can create logos and pretty much anything on it.
Laser Key chain Project
Here is my design for the key chain. The design is from the show The Office it is my all time favorite show. After designing my key chain it was time to take it down to the laser cutter. At the laser cutter I opened up my key chain file and went to file-print. After this I had to change some settings; I had to make the printer VLS6.60 also I had to go into preferences and change the material I used to plastic and I had to enter in the thickness of my key chain. Then I opened up UCP, this is the program we use to print on the laser. I then put my plastic into the laser, next I had to align the laser with each corner of the key chain. Here are pictures of my key chain printing This is my final key chain |
Vinyl notebook
To start we typed our names into Illustrator. Then we set up the vinyl cutter in this picture you can see the setup of the Vinyl cutter. The vinyl cutter will then cut out the names that we put into illustrator, this is what mine looked like after being cut. Here is my name after the access being peeled off as you can see some of the vinyl in some lettesr was stuck there so we had to use a tool to get it off. After removing the rest of the excess vinyl I used transferring tape to transfer the vinyl from the backing to my notebook. This is the final on my designer notebook |
Summary
In conclusion I learned many things throughout these processes. The first thing I learned was how to use the software illustrator. While using the Illustrator Software I learned the difference between a vector image and a rastor image. I also learned how to use two different machines the first is a laser cutter and the second is a vinyl cutter. Doing these two projects definitely opened me up to all of the things that you could make which I found amazing.