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LANDON LE
Land on one project, leap to the next
DESIGN PROJECTS
"Black Box" Assignment
Tools: Laser cutter, Adobe Illustrator, lighting lab
Task: Design a scene that evoke two randomly pulled moods: eerie and suspicious
Beginning sketch, establishing central focal point.
Medium fidelity modeling with laser-cut cardboard, testing sight lines.
Introducing more 3D elements, experimenting with positioning.
Fully painted model.
Introducing lighting, experimenting with shadow.
Final result with two different lighting colors.
Romeo and Juliet Set Design Project
Tools: Laser cutter, Adobe Illustrator
Task: Design a set for the play Romeo and Juliet, highlighting the struggle between passion and rigidity.
Exploring the feeling of rigidity and being trapped: that this is a fated and doomed story. Rigid vertical trees to invoke confinement.
Rough sketches, experimenting with curves and flow to represent the cycles of love but also death.
Experimenting a cylical woodland/forest setting to show how timeless this story is.
Low fidelty model using scrap pieces of old projects and material lying around.
Medium fidelity using laser cutter and cardboard.
Added acrylic railings and added stone texture.
Final result with added greenery.
Top-down view.
Elevator dial for Eurydice production
Tools: Laser cutter, Adobe Illustrator, Arduino
Task: Design a functioning elevator dial for Eurydice's descent into the underworld.
Experimenting with what symbols to add to the elevator dial.
Cardboard model with working servo motor component.
Finished result, painted and programmed.
Photo from the production.
Eurydice's first descent into the underworld on the elevator.
Hollywood-inspired Light Installation
Tools: Laser cutter, Adobe Illustrator, Arduino
Task: Individually design a lamp for a Hollywood-inspired lighting installation in 24 hours.
First test of the lighting and servo motor component.
Photo of the wiring and construction.
Final result of the full Hollywood-inspired lighting installation.
Boston College Graduation Caps
Tools: Laser cutter, Vinyl cutter, Adobe Illustrator
Task: Design graduation caps for me and my best friend!
Final result of the Minecraft-inspired
grad cap!
Some early sketches.
Process photos of the frames (constructed out of cardboard)
Final result of my Snoopy-inspired cap!
"CELIA" T-shirt Design
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Direct-to-garment printer
Task: Design an original t-shirt design of my friend.
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Designing in Adobe Illustrator.
Final result on a printed shirt.
TEACHING
NuVu Summer Middle School Makerspace Fellow (2026)
Assisted in the guidance and fabrication of over 200 students' projects.
Various student designs built to compete in a final sumo tournament.
Construction of a sumo arena using leftover plywood scrap in a symmetrical polygon design.
Various student's architectural designs and the resulting small scale models.
Rover designs built to maneuver and extract resources from imagined planets.
Shrink ray component.
Laser-cut and engraved books.
Various puzzles and escape room artifacts/components.
Designs of various water balloon launchers.
NuVu Summer High School Innovation Coach (2025)
Guided student-led projects through ideation, research, prototyping, testing, and refinement.
Provided iterative feedback and iterative guidance through projects in escape room puzzle design and game design.
Interactive game design activity on a physical 10x10 grid.
Various escape room puzzles, lock boxes and components using laser cutting and Arduino.
Final escape room result and exhibition.
Screenshots of students' finished puzzle/platformer games.
Sample brainstorm for escape room puzzles.
Screenshots of a student's final video game, a top-down RPG with a combat system.
Introducing students to low-fidelity prototyping through hand-made prison break artifacts.
MISCELLANEOUS PROJECTS
Toast
In assignment where we had to create a narrative in 5 still-shots, I opted for a non-traditional canvas.
High Horse
In this music video assignment, I wanted to capture the contrast between the good moments moving too fast and the mundane struggles of daily life moving too slow. Sometimes finding balance means making apple pie.
The Fool
A silly short film that explores a cursed game of UNO that introduces tarot cards.
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