Culture Shock was my thesis exhibition with the great designer Ana Carolina Gomez Bridge.

We had a joint exhibition because both our thesis subjects were both influenced heavily by culture.  

The title of my thesis was:
”Modern Regional Manufacturing and the Vernacular Influence: sustainable approaches to innovate design“ 

JUL042010_rooftop-panorama on Flickr.

Good Times…

This design exercise was a two week process where our class was allowed into Natuzzi’s showroom in High Point, NC, and then we came back and designed a project.  This was my result.

iceberg is a design that is supposed to fit in with existing sixinch lines.  

A lighting design with the company Axo Light Italia in mind.  

Taking cues from the companies new use of mesh as a light diffuser.  

A simple wire frame construction with the perimeter lit with LEDs of any sort.  

This piece could be tiled and programmed to light due to set parameters.  

Bump light is a prototype design for a slumped glass wall sconce.  This project was designed to be produced in as few steps possible.  

This design charette was approximately 3 week long and we had direct input via teleconference and an introductory lecture with the company.
The beginning was spent trying to identify things that were indicative to the Hoyos style and some of the other projects were about addressing a market or niche that they don’t currently extend into.

A design based around the idea that soon enough your corner hardware store will have a laser that will be used to cut and etch anything you can imagine, within reason…

A chair designed to lessen the stresses of a post traumatic stress disorder sufferer.  The chair uses acupressure as a daily routine for PTSD patients.  This could specifically address the large influx of servicemen with the disorder.

A birdhouse design that updates the National Forest Services bird box that exists on and in parks around the country.

This project involved designing a mailbox.  The route I veered into was the American past time of hitting mail boxes with blunt objects.  By creating a viable product that embraces this slightly illegal activity the consumer takes an active risk enticing to some taboo to others.

This is a project that involved me designing a lamp, and prototyping it using a 3D printer.  The material printed was ABS plastic.

This project was intended to design an object that used a vinyl cutter.  The pieces were designed in Illustrator and all the pieces are abstracted weapons.

This is a design for a simple leather pouch wallet.