Original wooden toy.

Our objective was to render an original toy design in photoshop based on the aesthetic of Playsam's wooden toys. 

Experimenting with light sources

Building a light sculpture

"Between the Folds" response

     Between the Folds was an eye-opening splash into the world of origami. As I’m sure most people are, I was unaware of the depth, variety, and potential importance the art of folding has. This documentary was a stunning account of just how quickly origami is still developing, and the breadth of what is yet to come. Paper folding spans from simple recreation, to seemingly impossible artworks, to models for scientific and mathematical research, and as the potential that these areas show were illustrated to me in the video I couldn’t help but note to myself that these processes from microscopic to grand scale sound like explanations of the process of a creator deity.  From simple materials, infinite variations arise through metamorphic change, and this metamorphosis is truly the important part. Just as Newtonian physics suggest that no energy is ever truly created or lost, folding creates both systems and forms, both geometric and organic, which can be either totally unique or infinitely repeatable.  The idea that humans desire order through pattern and rule and discernable form is the essence of mathematics, arts, and sciences, and it seems to me, paper folding meshes with all of these more smoothly than most other processes, while still leaving room for unrepeatable chaos. Origami, in other words, is probably the most holistic of any liberal art, and deserves far greater attention and notoriety than it has.

Rendering our abstracted animals as if metallic.

My first photoshop rendering experience.

double parabola fold

I am really stuck on this fold, so I find myself always playing with how it goes together rather than trying out a larger variety. It's really pretty simple but very hard to make clean, especially with weaker papers, and with those who don't want you to continue working.

some paper experimentations

I think she turned out rather nicely.

Photobook prototyping

Photography, set design, engineering?

A "photographer" surely, but also so much more. It's great to see people pursuing whole ideas with artistry than just making more lateral cuts into a singular area of art and/or design.

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And then we built it

Group word

obtain |əbˈtān, äb-|

verb

1 [ with obj. ] get, acquire, or secure (something): an opportunity to obtain advanced degrees.

2 [ no obj. ] formal be prevalent, customary, or established: the price of silver fell to that obtaining elsewhere in the ancient world.

derivatives

obtainer noun,

obtainment noun

origin

late Middle English: from Old French obtenir, from Latin obtinere ‘obtain, gain.’

Final favorites

Tooling around with Illustrator text tools

Individual word

displace |disˈplās|

verb [ with obj. ]

take over the place, position, or role of (someone or something): in the northern states of India, Hindi has largely displaced English.

• cause (something) to move from its proper or usual place: he seems to have displaced some vertebrae.

• (usu. be displaced) force (someone) to leave their home, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster: thousands of people have been displaced by the civil war.

• remove (someone) from a job or position of authority against their will: his aides were discredited and displaced.

derivatives

displacer noun

ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Old French desplacer .

Our Final Poster

Redesigning the lint roller.

My children are going to play with scandinavian toys. That is all.

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