Charles Kane!

I finally saw this movie. Yes. So I spent a little of my Saturday afternoon piecing together the infamous Kane election poster from five movie stills.

Project X-RAY: Common Sense

This semester, my friend Craig and I teamed up to build a project, tentatively titled "Common Sense." It's a museum exhibit, infographic, and sculpture piece, all wrapped into one. We're examining the American Dream --- where it came from, where it is now, and where it might go someday.

It's very exciting, and we're hoping that we might get funded by the Pepsi Refresh project. Our website, www.projectxray.blogspot.com, will be updated over the next few months, tracking our progress.

Killer Balloon Art

Very cool. Incredibly playful. Nearly terrifying. http://www.jasonhackenwerth.com/#

New Portfolio Website!

Goodbye Coroflot, hello Shownd!

Charts rock

Chart on the left about says it all, doesn't it?

Philippe Starck at TED

I never cared much for Philippe Starck until I saw this video. No self-aggrandizement - no slides of his work - just humility. Design may not be "oosless," but I agree that it creates better fiction than reality.

Vanishing Point

I finally watched Vanishing Point (1971) last night. I have no idea why it took me so long. What an excellent, excellent film.

Crittern Barn lives!

The folks at Critter Barn found a plot of land near the Tulip City Airport. I thought that the project would be completely, and forever, sidelined by the Great Recession. Tremble and despair at the eternal appeal of furry creatures!

Nostradamus works for AT&T

These predictions from 1993 are remarkable accurate... worth a watch!

Odds and Ends

Felini's 8 1/2 was on IFC the other day, and I had to get a picture of those glasses. Sadly, I couldn't wait around for the beautiful sunglasses that show up later.

This is my stepdad Dave's '95 Jeep. Over this past week, I sandblasted, primed, and painted the wheels to match the forest green body. We turned the whitewalls in when we remounted the tires. Looks pretty tough, I think.

Finally --- that's no dual monitor setup. That is the power of TWO desktops?!

Yet another portfolio update

The last piece of the puzzle: Standard Chartered Bank Experience Design.

New Grcic Table

This guy kicks so much ass.

Remember when?

I lived here, once...

NeoCon 2009 Aftermath

Somehow, Caitlin snagged tickets to a NeoCon afterparty at the House of Blues. What began as an academic day of research and study quickly devolved into a celebration fit for Bacchus. There were snacks!

And dancing.

Mostly, though, there was mugging for the camera.

More Portfolio updates

I must have job interviews next week... just updated my K60 Lounge Chair project. Reordered a few things, improved some renderings (you can see the original cover page below). Could a SCB update be far behind?

let's not forget

While we remember the heroism of all those involved in the Apollo space program, let's not forget the efforts of this terribly brave, yet terribly unlucky, man, the George Harrison of Apollo 11.

Another Google Blanket Update!

I swear, this is the last time that I update this project. I think, now, it's finally at the level at which it needs to be.

Related: 100th post! Updates have been scarce lately; I've been considering grabbing the rudder and changing the direction of this blog, now that I don't have tales from the East to share. Hopefully a new portfolio website is in the cards soon, as well as experiments with Rhino and Alias, more furniture concepts, and maybe even more car design crit...

neocon 2009

some photographs from this year's NEOCON furniture fair in beautiful downtown Chicago. this was my third year attending... i'm starting to get familiar with a lot of the furniture, so there wasn't much surprising for me this year.

definite highlight of the show: my stacking solution! this little plastic bumper, on the bottom of Haworth's Very Wire Stacker, took up the majority of my time at my internship at Haworth last summer. fun to see it real.

favorite chair from the show: Herman Miller's Setu. comfortable, flexible, constant seating surface: beautiful and functional plastic chassis. simple construction. really excellent.

i think this natural pattern, this idea, is finally on its way out.

it's not a movement, it's an abomination.

cool fabric at the show. from a distance, the print looks like clouds, but up close, it's a matrix of hundreds of different, colorful shapes. very cool stuff. very curious how the artist made the print, manually or through some computer algorithm...

portfolio update!

it's that magical time of the year!  check out the latest addition to my portfolio, the K60 Lounge Chair.  above, the quarter scale model that became one week of my life.

chair poster

things are coming together... the multiply textures and colors might be cheater tactics, but so long as the outcome functions, i'm not going to complain about it.