Pratt Radio Light Box

As many of you know I've been an employee and show host for Pratt Radio for the past couple years. This year the station manager Nick Childers decided we needed some sort of device that promoted the station while also informing the student body of show times, host names and more. I was asked to build a window mounted light box to solve the problem, by drawing the attention of students walking by the station and projecting show times. The photos below are only a selection of the shots I took throughout the entire process- the rest can be found on my Photobucket.

This project was very low-budget: we spent about $50 on materials... If I was to do it again I would definitely minimize the depth of the frame because the current setup is extremely large and quite heavy.

Solid Works Bicycle

Here are some recent renderings I did of a bicycle assembly I've been building in Solid Works. The rendering was done with Photo View 360. The bicycle was an assignment for my Solid Works class that I took special interest in due to my own passion for cycling. Hope you enjoy the images, they are my first renderings.

Great Blue Heron

I've continued work on my wooden 3D pieces and adapted the Blue Heron two more times. Here are some photos of the most recent models, I have one more to complete for wednesday and will be finalizing the size, elements, and materials for a final piece. The top 2 photos were the second adaptation and the bottom 3 are the most recent:

Whisk Sketching

Here are some sketches I did for short group project in my design class at Pratt. I had to do 30 hand mixer sketches total, 10 that would be used in a professional kitchen, 10 marketed to home cooks and 10 that fell into the "goofy" category. I tried to develop some quick whisk sketching techniques for these sketches to speed them up, so all in all each drawing took a little less than 5 minutes. We developed these specific groups based on market research of currently available whisks and the general categories they fell into. The sketches were done with prismacolors and a fineliner:

Wooden Animals

Here are the photos of the wooden animal abstractions. Since finishing these pieces I decided to continue evolving the Blue Heron and will post pictures of the newer ideation shortly.

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3D

My 3D class is taking a break from the bristol board animal studies and are now focusing on wood construction. I began the project with three abstract models constructed with scavenged wood. The original forms, joints and materials I used for these sculptures were then applied back to more animal abstraction. Here are the first three sculptures (I clearly need to get in the habit of using a nice camera for these photos):

Halloween

Halloween couldn't have come quicker, this year seems to be flying by at an almost alarming rate, as I was finishing a number of midterms and deadlines these past couple of weeks. I hope to upload some of my more recent work this weekend as well as some photos of the costume I put together for this year's festivities.

Seeing as October is the month of honoring the dead, I'd like to honor the lives of two amazing musicians who died this past October:

The reggae legend Gregory Isaacs died on October 25, 2010 at age 59, after battling lung cancer for a number of years. Although his discography contains a number of classic reggae hits, my all time favorite song is Night Nurse (click for the YouTube link).

The much younger and lesser known Micheal Larson, known as Eyedea of the underground Hip Hop duo Eyedea and Abilities died on October 16, 2010 at age 28. The cause of his death is still unknown, but comes as a great loss in a time when creative and original Hip Hop is getting harder and harder to find. Here is a link to the groups song Act Right.

Product Design Update

Here are some of my most recent sketches for the Hot/Cold design problem. As you can see these drawings were highly influenced by some of the concepts I sketched earlier when I was more focused on winter shelters.  I call it the Pure Melt water purification system!

SolidWorks Practice

One of my classes this year is all about learning how to use the 3D CAD program SolidWorks, one of the essential tools of the modern-day designer. Here are a couple screenshots from a recent homework assignment that had me building tables and using of of SolidWorks more unique features that allows for multiple "configurations" of one model. The two tables are actually the same file, simply configured so one is a dinner table and one a bed-side.