Raeus 3D Design Spring 2025

Process:

So first, we started by making the boxes. We were going to make wooden crates with leftover wood from the studio but we decided that would take too long midway through making one. Instead, we decided to instead use cardboard boxes. We turned them inside out, and taped them together before cutting an arc into the side of them so the produce is more easily visible. After that, we used fabric to line the insides of the boxes. Afterwards, we got pieces of wood and shaved them down into smaller pieces, after which we painted them into pieces of bread. We then also painted the rocks into tomatoes to put alongside all the other produce we made. 

Secondly, we made the supports for the stall. We took off the top layer of a piece of cardboard, exposing the inside and wrapping it around a piece of rebar for more stability. After we made about 4 supports, we used tape to put them together into 2 longer supports. Along with the tape, we used rubber bands to hold the supports together, and at the park we dug holes to insert the supports into using a post hole digger. Once the supports were in the ground, we put a piece of cardboard wrapped in fabric over the supports, acting as shade. 

Lastly, we used 2 foldable tables to put the boxes on, and we covered them in fabric. Once we had everything else in the stall set up, we put the boxes on the tables, and filled them the cardboard shavings and the produce we made. 

Materials used: 

Wood for the stall and fake produce 

Tape to keep the supports attached to one another 

Rubber bands to hold the supports together 

Cardboard for the produce containers, and sign 

Fabric for the inside of the boxes, and as a tarp 

Cardboard shavings to fill the inside of the boxes 

Rocks for the produce 

Wooden tables holding the boxes up 

Acrylic Paint for the produce 

References:

Final Presentation Summary:

For our final proposal with our altered new sentence "Resist and Revoke Global Businesses" we wanted to go for a more medieval market stall display. What we want to do is an interactive protest as we felt that a more interactive project would gain the most attention and eyes with the message idea of protesting against corrupt popular selfish cooperate business while spreading the want of support towards small local businesses instead that are more honest and care for their customers and consumers.

References:

Concept Sketches

Proposal:

Intent:

Materials:

Wood

Rocks

Tape

Rebar

Cardboard

Fabric Cloth

Wooden folding tables

Acrylic Paint

Statement:

Our purpose for the project was to spread the message that supporting small businesses can be  a way to revoke and resist against much larger corporations. At first, we wanted to make a structure such as a wall that we would throw rocks at to signify the revoking and “rebellion” against global businesses; however, we thought it better to pursue a less violent approach to our purpose. So, as our final proposed idea we came up with an ironic twist to the purpose of our project; a medieval-themed market stand where strangers could come to us and receive our products and thus supporting our small business. By interacting with our shop, the community is able to revoke against global businesses. 

For our environment/setting, we chose a public park to fit our medieval theme. Not only is a park full of traversing people, but it is also a place that seemed most fitting to our medieval, renaissance theme.

For our market stand, we chose to paint rocks and wood as food: tomato, orange, bread, fish, watermelon; as a gift for the customers that pass by our stand and interact with us. We thought it would be an ironic commentary on how corporations often pump microplastics and toxicity into our food. These were inorganic things disguised as organic, a way to show the irony of what these big businesses sell to us that they label as “food.”

During our exhibition, we realized the struggle small businesses face in attempts to get people to check out their products or even just provide a small interaction. Often, people would only stare or walk past us without paying much attention. A couple times, it took our own initiative to ask others to attend our market stand for them to willingly go to it. There were, however, a few individuals that voluntarily came up to us and asked us what we were doing. 

Process:

So first, we started by making the boxes. We were going to make wooden crates with leftover wood from the studio but we decided that would take too long midway through making one. Instead, we decided to instead use cardboard boxes. We turned them inside out, and taped them together before cutting an arc into the side of them so the produce is more easily visible. After that, we used fabric to line the insides of the boxes. Afterwards, we got pieces of wood and shaved them down into smaller pieces, after which we painted them into pieces of bread. We then also painted the rocks into tomatoes to put alongside all the other produce we made. 

Secondly, we made the supports for the stall. We took off the top layer of a piece of cardboard, exposing the inside and wrapping it around a piece of rebar for more stability. After we made about 4 supports, we used tape to put them together into 2 longer supports. Along with the tape, we used rubber bands to hold the supports together, and at the park we dug holes to insert the supports into using a post hole digger. Once the supports were in the ground, we put a piece of cardboard wrapped in fabric over the supports, acting as shade.