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In Defense of Junk Culture pt.1
Junk culture is all around us. For most Americans, it’s hard to ignore. Many academic, “creative class” types like myself do their best to ignore it, however, retreating to shadowy “high culture” enclaves like “ART”, “DESIGN”, “FASHION”, and other capitalized arenas of human expression. Having gone to school for Industrial Design, I understand the urge […]
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Tags: cross-brow, design, junk culture, memphis, sotsass, surrealism, trash humpers, web 2.0
procedural camouflage
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
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 […]
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Tags: art, building, cardboard, domes, geodesic, life
geodesics
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
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Tags: design, light
pgh camo
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
The Stacks 