For the books:
The cover is a spline or line which has been extruded.
The insides or pages is a box with altered polygons.
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The Globe consists of a sphere, an arc, and 2 chamfered cylinders. The texture is from the US Central Intelligence Agency's web site, it is the "world political map"
Coffee mug is two splines or lines, one of which has a lathe modifier (cup part) the other just radial dimension added (handle.)
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Desk is 2 boxes.
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Chair is cylinders and boxes.
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The clock is cylinders, text and boxes.
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The chalkboard is a box with polygons inset and extruded. The writing texture placed on the central inset poly, the image used was changed to black and white in CS5.
The teacher is a plane with an opacity map applied.
To complete the scene I made the walls, floor and ceiling out of boxes. To one of these boxes I cut windows by use of a boolean object. A MR spot light was used to simulate sunlight through the windows. The interior of this room is lit by 4 omni lights and one skylight.