SPHAN!

See if you can figure this one out. I just threw it together, and I'll put a better representation up later.

New Work: Winter Custom Yachts

62' Galot 3

Good evening. Just a quick note here- I am going to be working with Winter Custom Yachts some in the next few months, so hopefully I will have some new and exciting material to share in the next while. In the meantime, check them out! This is a passionate company with vision.

K.U.D.O.S. take 2: Ross Lovegrove

Lovegrove is a master of capturing the beauties inherent in nature, and snaring that beauty into the curved forms and shapes of his designs. I highly recommend Supernatural, the book chronicling his journey and process. When I look for inspiration, I often look to his work, or listen to his take on his approach to good design. Please take a minute and check out what this guy has going on. I doubt you'll regret it.

See+Design.

This is a product I have dubbed "CDesign." A slight play on "See+Design". Collaborated with a some electrical engineers at NCSU in Raleigh, NC to reverse engineer some portable CD players, and then turn and back up into a finished product on the other end, with a different level of functional understanding at our fingertips. Many wanted to create an indestructible CD player, but my mind was that Mp3 players have already conquered that arena, and if my design was to be relevant, I needed to come at the player sideways a bit. In order to achieve relevancy some distance into the future, I mixed some of the past and some of the future into what is a fading technology.


In doing a "stripped" CD player, I reached back to the classic turntables of a Golden Era of music for its function, and forward to a Star Wars final fit, form, and polish. My hope was to convey it as an intriguing piece of dynamic, sparkling, aural sculpture, seen on Mahogany desks in private libraries, and also sitting in its own corner in Moby's minimalist living room. I hope to refine this idea someday, and see it realized by a company that truly knows sound, so the CDesign will truly be worth having.

k.u.d.o.s. take 1

Shout out to some of the coolest and simplest designs from an I.D. brain in the last decade or so. Check them out. They have one of the coolest studio locations too- right on the Thames in London in the OXO Tower. Here is their "Propello":

Swoosh, The Chair.

Been working on a few renderings for this one today. This is one of my freelance projects, working with local custom furniture people to get some samples made. I have a few small scale prototypes finished, and I will add some photos of those to this post soon.

The design came of a day in the studio, joking with some other designers about using some scrap re-bar from another project. I claimed I could make it into "beautiful furniture", and one of the guys dared me to do so. This is one of the better results of my musings on it. I look forward to winning that dare. [More Swoosh]

Greetings...

Good day! Welcome. I have elected to begin a "design blog" So as to vent my design thoughts, share MY designs, other designs that catch my eye, and hopefully open the door to some meaningful dialog and just perhaps, some inspiration. I will keep this as up to date as possible, and will always welcome questions, comments, and conversation. Thank you for visiting, and I hope you enjoy.


(above is a shiny version of my speculative "open" format yacht, the Horizon)