How can natural cork granules be used to create a product? Cork composite is made by a resource intensive process that is not as environmentally as cork can otherwise be. My fruit bowl uses cork granules from the bark of a cork tree, in their natural form. My low energy design and the clean and inviting nature of cork emphasize the natural and delicious quality of the fruit.
As part of an effort to create tactically readable images for the blind, students in my Virtual to Real class at MICA were asked to create 3D representations of relics from the Walters art museum to aid the blind in experiencing their collections. I used to the 3D program ArtCam to make a relief of a Medusa Sarcophagus. It was then rapid prototyped by a ZPrinter.
Pencil on paper. 2009. Drawing is of a Greek style capital done in my Drawing From Architecture class at MICA.
After much research into the history and gestures surrounding the ice cream scoop, I designed an ergonomic scoop for leveraging hard-to-scoop ice cream. The thicker neck creates a better grip towards the scoop bowl, making it easier to handle.
When it comes to golf ball packaging, it is the quantity of paper and plastic used that decidedly is wasteful. My goal was to design packaging that uses less paper and little or no glue. My package uses lightweight paper to protect the balls from scratching each other, in essence wrapping them like candy. Opening up a golf ball is like opening up a candy. Without trashcans on courses, golfers hold on to their trash, with my package, a slot in the back can be used as a receptacle.
How can we get kids to eat healthy? In order to make bringing healthy lunch from home more fun, I designed a disposable lunch box. Additional boxes inside hold fruit and sandwiches. The turtle's legs fasten the two boxes together. The head of the Lunch Box Turtle pops out of the top of the shell thereby creating a handle.
A young child enjoys his healthy lunch, packaged in my Lunch Box Turtle.
The significance of this flashlight is that the light is pointed towards the user's range of vision. Other flashlights point straight ahead away from the range of sight. When stood upright with lens side down, this flashlight strikes a dynamic, yet elegant pose. The design calls for a plastic housing, energy efficient LEDs and two C batteries.
These nesting containers are constructed from a flat material, such as leather felt, or plastic. With a simple low waste dieline, some hardware and a little folding, this container can be produced at low cost.
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