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Mirror Hooks
The Mirror Hooks project is almost complete. Currently the White Oak version is done and ready to receive jackets, scarves, and bags. Once I get back to school in a couple of weeks, I will have the Walnut version completed. It is great to finally have this project nearing completion. Here is an image that demonstrat
Orbit Light
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. At this point, I feel that most of the design issues that surfaced during the prototyping of the Dome Lights has largely bee
Clip Tree
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...). Here are some additional images of (thanks PD Rearick):
Half-Full Light
My last project for the school year is a light that uses a left over piece from the Dome Light project, a dimmer switch, dimmable LED puck light, RP components, an acrylic lens, and a cloth-covered cord. The light is designed as accent lighting. The top of the light rotates in either direction to turn the light on and
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Design work with a particular manufacturing technique in mind is at times better than simply dreaming up a form and searching for a suitable process ex post facto. The Chris Lefteri book Making It- Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design can help inspire the latter approach. Though certain processes are curiously absent (CNC tube bending?), it covers quite a broad range of techniques with examples, images of processes and pros and cons for each. Being a mere student, I am mostly concerning myself with techniques that I might be able to afford to use in my projects. Though it may not be a bad exercise to design for a technique that perhaps a company would finance (i.e. pie in the sky designing).
With the pervasive talk of sustainability and green living, coupled with oil filling up the Gulf of Mexico, it may seem an odd time to release a book that celebrates the use of plastics in design. I would have to say however, judging by the pieces that make up this survey in Plastic Dreams- Synthetic Visions in Design, it may not be a bad thing if some of these objects last 10,000 years. Plus it is good to know thine enemy. Covering all forms of the stuff from bakelite to the cool Ultradur High Speed polymer that Konstantin Grcic used in his Myto Chair, there is much to know and admire about plastic. The book comes with a neat (but very smelly) plastic sheath.
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