procedural camouflage

04Jan08

I recently finished a programming project in the Processing programming environment, which I just started learning this semester. I created a program which will analyze any image file, and spit out a tile-able swatch of camouflage based upon it.
The program selects 5 predominant colors from the image, weights them, and creates a background of [...]

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Tags: art, camo, camouflage, design, processing

dome obsession

05Dec07

i dug up some pictures from the height of my dome obsession, last november. 
some small cardboard models, hanging on my studio wall:

inspirational images, hung up in studio:
my full-size cardboard dome, in process in the hallway outside my studio (it was too big to move all the way to the outdoor site by myself, so i [...]

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Tags: art, building, cardboard, domes, geodesic, life

geodesics

03Dec07

last year, i became obsessed with geodesic domes and highly geometric 3d forms. this is a concept image i made for a project in which we had to re-design the housing for a tivoli kloss model one radio. the concept grew out of experiments with folding paper, truncating simple solids to make more complicated ones, [...]

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Tags: design, domes, geodesic

new chair pics

28Nov07

here are some quick snapshots of my new folding chair design (taken with my really dodgy digital camera, sorry!). i’m really excited about this one! i hope to make a couple of them eventually, out of different woods, and with more refined hardware.details:- made of locally grown ash hardwood, with reclaimed aluminum cutoff cross-pieces- hand-cut [...]

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Tags: chair, folding, furniture, sustainable

solar decathlon stools

26Nov07

i made 2 of these folding barstools over the summer for the carnegie mellon solar decathlon team house. i wasn’t too happy with how they came out, so i never took very professional shots of them. this one image was shot on-site in washington dc by neha thatte, showing the unfolded chair. when folded up, [...]

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Tags: chair, furniture, solar decathlon

typeface

19Nov07

after years of taking notes and drawing in graph paper notebooks, i’ve developed an ultra-simple, all-uppercase style of writing. i’ve been slowly building a portfolio website over the past week or so, and it occured to me to try to reproduce my lettering style in the design. i couldn’t find any fonts that really worked [...]

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Tags: font, graphic design, type

infinity plus

19Nov07

for some reason i was obsessed with this symbol i found in a book of op art last summer (repeated 4 times here). i can’t really say why, but the expression “infinity plus” always goes through my head when i look at it.

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light fixture

15Nov07

when the light fixture in my room got full of dead bugs, i decided to take it down, and make one of my own.
it’s made out of:
- a 12×12″ square of acrylic (purchased at a flea market)
- a page of slides of the german countryside (purchased as part of a record set at jerry’s records [...]

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Tags: design, light

pgh camo

14Nov07

2 summers ago, i made an attempt at creating a camo swatch based on pittsburgh imagery, colors, and map shapes. the results were interesting, but not especially polished. you can see the steelers logo and the 3 rivers pretty clearly in the designs. ted galperin made a similar attempt later that year, since the idea [...]

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Tags: camo, camouflage, pgh, pittsburgh