They come from here. I got to take a look at the Davison Plyforms factory as a part of my model making class this semester. Davison Plyforms is the factory where all the Eames Lounge Chairs are made, which is really exciting! They’re all molded from the same form, then cut into different shapes. This makes …
Month: December 2012
I recently had the chance to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where I saw their exhibit, ‘Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac’, which was amazing. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are brothers who run a design studio together. They’ve done work with companies like Vitra, Kartell, Ligne Roset, and Cappellini. The first part of …
Source The Federal Building at Kendall has recently been certifed to the USGBC’s LEED Gold Level. This is fantastic for the school and for the whole of downtown Grand Rapids, particularly because of the adaptive reuse process applied to the historic Federal Building. The building served as a courthouse in it’s previous life, and will …
Photo by Livy Hoskins Publishing has a Design problem. Big D Design, systems design, design thinking, all of that.We’re at a weird spot in which writers don’t need publishers in the same ways that they always did. Forty years ago, writers needed publishers. Publishers took care of everything, they read through slush piles to find …
I first wanted to create a tool for writers. After researching tools that currently exist for writers, I realized that distraction is a huge problem for writers. Not just writers, either, it’s a problem for a lot of people while doing computer-based tasks. People may be motivated, but they seem to be easily distracted by …
I did this project with Phillip Han. We wanted to create a coworking space for a variety of uses. We wanted to have space for the occasional visitor, people who would work here every day, and small companies that need office space. The space we decided upon was a three-story building at 76 South Division. …
For this project, I worked with Christina Cardendas. We planned a renovation of Cherry Street Park in Grand Rapids. It’s a fairly small park and whenever I pass by, it’s empty, except for people occasionally playing tennis or basketball. There’s a tall, chain-link fence around the whole park, which makes it feel less-than welcoming, and the fence …
For this project, I worked with a group of five other people. We each took on an aspect of the design to focus on. My focus was usability. We decided that we wanted to create contemporary furniture for a family with small children, probably in a smaller home. To research this, I took to twitter …
In my digital foundations class, we learned how to use Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. For a final project, we compiled all of our work from the class into an interactive PDF. The interactive features work well on my computer. However, when I upload it to google drive, they stop working. You can see it here in non-interactive …
For my industrial design project in Introduction to Design, I designed a kayak. Remember that post over the summer, about kayaks? That’s what I went off for this project. I had the solution in my mind, I knew what the perfect kayak would be like. I was really exited when I first started the project. …