On Friday a few of us headed back to Herman Miller’s Design Yard to meet with engineering, color & materials specialists, design facilitation, and research to go over our protoypes.

We brought with us detailed specifications of our work which included information about how we intended to assemble them, as well as the materials we were thinking about using.
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Last week the 3D Department and I went to NYC for 3 days to soak up as much as we could from designers, museums, galleries, and show rooms in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

While intense in terms of pacing, the lasting effect was one of informed excitement. We were able to see the work and studios of many of the big names in our field- IDEO, Rich Brilliant Willing, The Rockwell Group, Antenna Design, Ecco, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects, Bill Moggridge, AMT Studio & Jan Habraken, Jason Miller/Roll&Hill, and others.
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Today is the first day of my last semester at Cranbrook. I already wish that I could stay for another few years and get additional Masters degrees from other departments here…

It is time to bring everything together so that I have a solid showing in the degree show in May (not to mention a completed thesis).

I was one of the 6 students in our department to have my work selected by Herman Miller to be fully prototyped and ultimately shown at ICFF and/or NeoCon.
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The Mirror Hooks project is almost complete. Currently the White Oak version is done and ready to receive jackets, scarves, and bags.
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All of the work on the Dome Light prototypes has resulted in the Orbit Light. The name is in reference to the way the light switch dial rotates around the glass dome like planets around a star.
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I ended the 3rd semester with a completed version of the coat tree/valet artifact that I am now calling ‘Clip Tree’ (sometimes sticking with a name is hard…).
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I have finally finished the first prototype of the Mirror Hook coat rack that I began last semester. I am pleased with the way it has turned out. It functions both graphically and functionally.
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So I finally had the custom dowel work completed by H.A. Stiles in Maine.They came out perfectly.
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Over the weekend I took an Arduino workshop here at Cranbrook, taught by members from OmniCorpDetroit. I’ve been wanting to dip my toe into electronics programming for a while and the Arduino platform seems to be the most accessible for someone like me.

In the class, I learned how to connect the Arduino to a breadboard and program it make LED’s blink, turn off and on with a button, and dim with a potentiometer. Good times! I am hoping to ultimately work on some sort of lighting interface. Perhaps I could even get a printed circuit board made someday!

The world is a much more dangerous place now!