Graduation Keychains

For the final project in one of my design classes, I was asked to create something that "makes [you] or someone else happy." Since I was nearing the end of my undergraduate career and many of my friends were graduating, I decided to make keepsakes for people who were moving away from Pittsburgh. (I was also quite broke, so I opted to use as much scrap material as possible, leading me to the pieces of acrylic I found laying around.)

I intended for people to hang these keychains on their bags/keys, looking at them from time to time, thus thinking of our friendship every so often. Each design is a customized pattern based off an inside joke shared with a specific person. Each design was created in CAD using lines and splines to create the vector files. Then, I laser cut each piece out of various colored acrylics before glued everything together using acrylic glue. Short but sweet!