I’m adding some additional projects to my portfolio online. In addition to traditional industrial design and some interaction work, I’ve done environmental projects like solar decathlon, which turned out to be extremely research intensive.
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Reconfigurable Displays for GM
Partners In Crime:
Michael Levy, Alex Riegelman, Jimi Okelana
In the Summer of 2007, I was hired by GM along with my team members to research the area of computer reconfigurable displays for General Motors cars. Specifically, we focused on the Cadillac CTS and the Chevrolet Impala. We carried out this work in the comfort of a windowless room in the Human Computer Interaction Institute on Carnegie Mellon’s campus.
In the first phase of the project, we went to car dealers to get an idea of what an Instrument Panel (IP) means across as many brands as possible. After we had gathered this information, we spent over a week discussing the past present & future of the CTS and the Impala, and how our digital IPs would help further that future.
Basic Cadillac Display
Apparently there are no women in Apple’s marketing department
If there were, they would have named the iPad something else…
Also, I hope someone turns this into a drawing tablet, thereby making it actually useful. It would also be awesome if I could listen to Pandora while drawing drawing on said tablet. I know Steve Jobs hates the stylus, but a $500 Apple-branded drawing tablet would seriously cut the Cintq down.
UPDATE Core Toon Win!
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State of Shelter
I was just reading Ernest Beck’s State of Shelter over at Design Observer. The Haitian earthquake has made an estimated 1,000,000 people homeless. Until a permanent housing solutions can be found, a lot of people are sleeping in the streets and it shouldn’t be that way.
Bamboo Radio
Bamboo Radio, 2007
Bamboo plywood + Blackened walnut veneer + Brass
This radio was inspired by the Gramophone from the late 1800’s. I used this form factor as a way for a small radio to project sound 360 degrees. Inside its guts, a wireless card will allow the user to stream music directly from their computer, as well as listen to normal radio stations (for the purposes of the working mockup, I used an Apple Airport Express to demonstrate the principle). By allowing the the sound to echo in the lower sealed chamber, I was able to maintain the good bass response for which the Tivoli is known.
Mapping Our Activities
The first step to understanding how to design a product or service is to determine how and why people do what they do now. Is it efficient? Bone-headedly moronic? A conceptual model can find this out.
A visual map of how people create, carry and share photos.
Spaceship Monday
I haven’t done as much free sketching as I’d like to lately, so i decided to draw some spaceships on the good ‘ol Cintq during lunch.
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New Decade’s Eve
A bunch of photos I took while home for vacation. I headed to Brooklyn for the big night and we celebrated the new decade with bagpipes played by our host!
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Laser Cut Glassware
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Partner In Crime: Zoë Pinfold
My friend Zoë and I used a laser cutter with an attachment for round objects to create some designer chair themed presents. We got our hands on a fancy converter for the laser cutter that automatically rotates a round object. If someone told me laser cutters weren’t designed to make presents, they would be lying. (more…)
Hedron
Glass + Aluminum
Pen and finger powered touchscreen
Though the idea of a touch screen PC is already in the market, the current solutions are still adapting a normal PC to attempt to satisfy the size requirements of a sketchbook. At some point in the process of using the computer to create, everyone has said, “I wish this program would just let me do _____ the way I see it in my head.” Hedron will help it happen.
