Front side of the finished piece

Each side has details scattered, either referencing the poem itself or other pop culture references tangentially related

In my experience of designing props, I've found adding light hearted humor through easter eggs to add my personality (in an unobtrusive way)

This was the initial concept for which I ended dialing back to just the core idea of a graffitied vending machine

While brainstorming with my professors, I decided that simplifying to an adaptation of "Ozymandias" with a contemporary twist

The concept was supposed to just be a functioning vending machine but, due to size restriction from the bottles I bought, I went with a static piece with some set dressing

Loose blueprint of using foam for the model sand dune

I illustrated some faux branding for the bottles and machine

Label variations

The modeling process

Despite the machine not being able to dispense bottles, the built-in lights still worked