I decided my sign would be a shop sign for an opticians. Mostly because I'd recently finished A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix and was obsessed although the original is still in my opinion the better version.
After designing a steampunk looking version of this I thought it didn't give me many different materials and techniques to learn. I thought maybe I could make my sign change depending on whether the shop was open or closed. This is when the idea of an aperture eye came to mind! The idea excited me and I instantly started googling how-tos to see if it would be viable. From what I saw it didn't seem too complex and with all the workshops at uni I believe I can make it work!
Websites I used to help me with the aperture:
