Week of 4/28 - 5/2

This week I began a new project: designing a light switch plate cover. In my room, I don't have much decoration on my walls yet. I figured a good place to start would be by customizing the light switch plate on my wall which right now, is very basic and boring. On Monday I looked around for some inspiration on a design that I would like to include on the switch plate. I wanted something that had some texture and raised designs on the plate like the examples below.

I began to design the plate that I wanted in my room with a sun surrounding the light switch. I created the design I started with below by importing a canvas into CAD and tracing the edges of the design. I found that this design would not work well with what I wanted to accomplish with the plate. The spaces between the sun's rays on the design would not cover the space it needs to on my wall and the light switch would still be somewhat visible. I also found that the plate could not be flat against the wall because when I checked my light switches at home, they were raised above the flat surface of the wall so it would not sit flush against the wall as I could not make it convex and maintain the design effectively.

Since this design had so many issues associated with it, I decided it would be best to scrap the idea and try again with a new design of the plate. This design would keep the form of the classic light switch plate but would include the raised designs that I looked to add to the plate. The plate would have a sun, moon, and some stars on the cover which would be raised above the flat cover. I have not finished the design for this plate yet but I plan on finishing the design on Friday and printing it out the following week.