The assignment “Light switch art” (3.5 pts) was lots of fun! I remember one summer camp as a child they had blank light switch covers and all the kids decorated their own light switch cover. Mine is on the light switch in my room, but because I mainly used marker and it was a shiny surface it faded away slightly. The picture was of a turtle by the water, but I wanted to make something a little more interesting than that for this assignment. Designing my own light switch cover was lots of fun because unlike last time I didn’t have to stay within the box. Coming up with an idea was tough, but I started thinking about the binary system of a switch, and got an idea. When you turn a switch it is either on or off, light or dark. Another way of looking at light/dark is good/bad (think Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader). Sticking with this theme, I created an angel/devil light switch cover. When the light is on, it is on the angel’s side, and when it is off, it is on the devil’s side. I colored in my design and put it on my switch.

The features of the angel and devil are pretty stereotypical with the fire and halo. While the design is fairly simple, I have to admit, coloring in the devil was a lot more fun than the angel. There are so many colors in the fire and the devil himself, whereas the angel is mostly white and gold. The rest of their design is pretty much the same: their bodies are simple, they have something on their head, they have a background (wings or fire). Even their faces are the same, with eyes that look at each other. The difference is that the angel is smiling while the devil is unhappy (maybe because he is upside down). While it is fun to play with binaries like heaven or hell, good or bad, I don’t think that I would put this on a child’s light switch. Children already have enough trouble with monsters under their beds at night, so I wouldn’t add the devil to the mix every time I turn off the light. However, I am perfectly ok with leaving it on my light switch, which is what I’m going to do.

So trucking along in my design assignments and for this assignment I chose to recreate my light switch cover! We were asked to take your average light switch cover and make it into something more interesting and witty!
I chose this assignment because I have often found myself bored by normal light switch cover or either really scary. You can buy more interesting covers but I have found that most of them are kinda scary when stumbling to the bathroom at 2am.
That being said I decided to make my light switch cover into a face! To try and avoid the whole scary light switch cover thing, I decided that I would make the face have a giant mustache! Because let’s be honest, there’s nothing more benign then a giant mustache. I then incorporated the light switch by making the switch synonymous with where the nose placement would be! Here’s the finished product!