Final Products

Night Light

This is a battery powered night light designed to provide a low level of indirect light. It uses 3 LEDs which are activated when you rotate the shade (which sits on top of the base).

Laser Cut Boom

Big bada boom

Laser Cutter

Laser cut out of card board.

3D Printer Concepts

Just messing around with 3D concepts 

I might use as inspiration for my final.

Glass

(Almost Final) Haeckle Organic Model

The high-resolution rendering of this with better lighting failed, so this is what you get.

Haeckle Organic Model

Super ugly colors demonstrate the wondrous advances in technology 

over Haeckle's original black & white drawings.  

Screwdriver (Project 2)

My First Rendering

It's a thing!

Assignment 4: Second Seat

By Zoe Blatter & Nate Eshleman

 

Accessory Concepts

Inspiration Boards

Assignment 3

Brief: As the Baby boomer population in the U.S. continues to age, the number of people with arthritis and other mobility inhibiting diseases is going to rise drastically. By 2030, it's estimated that 67 million Americans will be affected by such ailments (source). Because of this, ergonomics are going to be at the forefront of design going forward. 

These sorts of diseases affect people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and therefore products designed to improve usability should be accessible to, whenever possible, the lowest common denominator, yet still be aesthetically acceptable to the majority. In other words, the pen must be very low cost, yet beautiful. 

There are currently not very many unique ergonomic pens out there, and many that exist are impractical or ugly. Most of these pens involve simple modifications to the grip of standard pens, like the HeavyWeight. The result is something that might be alright to hold, but is horrendous to look at. On the other end of the spectrum, the Evo Pen radically reshapes the pen in a beautiful way, but requires even more effort to maintain control than a normal pen. The only pens that really reduce the amount of force needed are the similarly designed Ring Pen and PenAgain. While both of these drastically reduce the amount of pressure required to hold them, their diameter still closely resembles that of a standard pen, leaving them still potentially problematic for those with reduced dexterity. 

My Designs: For my designs, I wanted to play with the way the pen works and feels in the hand. I experimented with everything from glove-like pen slips to different organic blob like shapes that fit into the hand in different ways. 

Prototype:

Initial shape studies:

Final Prototype:  

Assignment 2

Assignment 1

Pattern: 

Relationships:

Detail:

Adaptive Use: 

Smiles:

Route: 

Favorite Design

The SR-71 Blackbird is nothing short of a design and engineering model. Produced in the early 1960's by Lockheed Martin, this jet maintains its record as the fastest manned aircraft in the world. Every part of this aircraft was designed purely to fulfill its function of traveling at extremely high speeds at high altitudes, and yet the result is this beautiful sculpture of organic lines contrasting with bladed edges, making it appear both elegant and extremely powerful.