Everyone wears pants, and everyone can relate to the plight of the trash pants.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Huzzahh!!!
Sweet Zombie Jesus! Look what I found!
yourmoneyyourmoney.blogspot.com
I'm going to be rich! Or not.
Anywho....What I really discovered was...
....a concept sketch I did a few years ago while still stuck in engineering for a iPod dock and stereo on my hard drive. It was for the only class I ever enjoyed in mechanical engineering, a manufacturing and design class. We actually team designed these iPod docks and then prototyped them using SolidWorks (an engineering design program, that I'll probably still use in industrial design, it's really powerful). Then of course, we actually used CNC machines to make them. It was really interesting, but a pain at the same time. Lots and lots of time was poured into this iPod stereo dock. And we didn't even use my (two) designs. My group members (the idiots) settled on the easiest one to make.
If I remember correctly, the dock was supposed to be compact for easy transport and above all, cool looking, not boxy like so many are. We settled on one that looked like a football cut point to point. Heck, we even painted the stupid thing to look like a football. It was a terrible design. We got a C and were lucky to get it actually. The abomination of good design is below.
My concept sketch was included in the full proposal for manufacturing paper we created (47 pages!). I luckily still had a copy on my hard drive. I'm thinking it would be interesting to expand on this design as I am interested in consumer product design. Anyway, the image of my sketch is below.
The whole design was a shell with the speakers which, when closed, encased the ipod, the dock, and the remote. But when you opened it by sliding the two shells apart form each other 'till they stopped and then rotating them out and open, you had an interesting to look at fully functional portable iPod stereo. You could even leave the iPod on the dock, close the shell and there were little slots on each side for the iPod to slide into, thus storing and protecting your design for travel! God, it was amazing. The jerks thought it would be to hard to make. Well yeah, it would have been tough, but we would have an A if we succeeded and an amazing prototype. But no. We went with the football design from Captain Jock Itch (he was a lacrosse player).
My other design, the iBall, as I dubbed it.
As you can see, both my designs were certainly pretty cool looking and couldn't be further from boxy.
I think I'll make a fine industrial designer someday.
Anyway, thanks for reading, feel free to comment.
Holy Moley! 3 posts in one day! I am SUPER POSTING MAN! Cower in fear as you read my posts!
yourmoneyyourmoney.blogspot.com
I'm going to be rich! Or not.
Anywho....What I really discovered was...
....a concept sketch I did a few years ago while still stuck in engineering for a iPod dock and stereo on my hard drive. It was for the only class I ever enjoyed in mechanical engineering, a manufacturing and design class. We actually team designed these iPod docks and then prototyped them using SolidWorks (an engineering design program, that I'll probably still use in industrial design, it's really powerful). Then of course, we actually used CNC machines to make them. It was really interesting, but a pain at the same time. Lots and lots of time was poured into this iPod stereo dock. And we didn't even use my (two) designs. My group members (the idiots) settled on the easiest one to make.
If I remember correctly, the dock was supposed to be compact for easy transport and above all, cool looking, not boxy like so many are. We settled on one that looked like a football cut point to point. Heck, we even painted the stupid thing to look like a football. It was a terrible design. We got a C and were lucky to get it actually. The abomination of good design is below.
Fugly iPod Dock
My concept sketch was included in the full proposal for manufacturing paper we created (47 pages!). I luckily still had a copy on my hard drive. I'm thinking it would be interesting to expand on this design as I am interested in consumer product design. Anyway, the image of my sketch is below.
The whole design was a shell with the speakers which, when closed, encased the ipod, the dock, and the remote. But when you opened it by sliding the two shells apart form each other 'till they stopped and then rotating them out and open, you had an interesting to look at fully functional portable iPod stereo. You could even leave the iPod on the dock, close the shell and there were little slots on each side for the iPod to slide into, thus storing and protecting your design for travel! God, it was amazing. The jerks thought it would be to hard to make. Well yeah, it would have been tough, but we would have an A if we succeeded and an amazing prototype. But no. We went with the football design from Captain Jock Itch (he was a lacrosse player).
My other design, the iBall, as I dubbed it.
As you can see, both my designs were certainly pretty cool looking and couldn't be further from boxy.
I think I'll make a fine industrial designer someday.
Anyway, thanks for reading, feel free to comment.
Holy Moley! 3 posts in one day! I am SUPER POSTING MAN! Cower in fear as you read my posts!
Compositional Units
So my first project for TMP II is done. It's pretty much a class on graphic design, which I never really had any experience with before, but I rather enjoy.
We had 4 different studies for this project, all dealing with arrangement of 10 rectangles and or squares. We're learning about the illusion of space, texture, composition and balance, proximity, and unity. Also big was the dynamics of figure and ground.
Study 1 was all black blocks and study 2 was blue, red, black, yellow, or white blocks. Study 3 was blocks of text (newspaper or the like) and study 4 was blocks from pictures. A few posts down I put up my first thing I did in this class, it was my first iteration of study 1. I like my new one better. They're all below.
I designed this to look like the equalizer in iTunes (the bars that jump up and down correlating to your music that is currently playing, don't know if I've got the right name for it).
This was designed to be symmetrical down the diagonal while giving the illusion that the horizontal center of the picture plane is further away than the top and bottom edges. I did this by fading the colors closer the middle on the bottom set of bars and sharpening the colors going away from the middle on the top set of bars. And of course, closer to the center of the picture, the bars are shorter.
This was a surprisingly fun study to do. I had a great time searching for things like old newspaper clippings on Google and messing with their colors and saturations. I tried to make it look like the top of the picture plane was further away from the bottom by arranging smaller blocks on top and lighter colors to contrast the heavy, thick blocks on the bottom pulling the arrangement down to the base.
So in the 4th study, I was trying to use several different pictures cropped out of loosely related photos. I had this one of Audrey Hepburn that I was using, it dawned on me to cut that one up into the 10 squares. I arranged them so. I really like this one. It's my favorite of the 4, and not just because I like Audrey Hepburn. How it is still one congruous photo because of the organization of the blocks, but each column dosen't give all the info needed to discern what is going on is really pleasing to my brain.
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You know I once read that most blogs have one reader. Thanks Mom. Knew I could count on you.
Anyway, thanks for reading (Mom). Please feel free to leave comments.
We had 4 different studies for this project, all dealing with arrangement of 10 rectangles and or squares. We're learning about the illusion of space, texture, composition and balance, proximity, and unity. Also big was the dynamics of figure and ground.
Study 1 was all black blocks and study 2 was blue, red, black, yellow, or white blocks. Study 3 was blocks of text (newspaper or the like) and study 4 was blocks from pictures. A few posts down I put up my first thing I did in this class, it was my first iteration of study 1. I like my new one better. They're all below.
Study 1 Black Blocks
I designed this to look like the equalizer in iTunes (the bars that jump up and down correlating to your music that is currently playing, don't know if I've got the right name for it).Study 2 Color Blocks
This was designed to be symmetrical down the diagonal while giving the illusion that the horizontal center of the picture plane is further away than the top and bottom edges. I did this by fading the colors closer the middle on the bottom set of bars and sharpening the colors going away from the middle on the top set of bars. And of course, closer to the center of the picture, the bars are shorter.Study 3 Text
This was a surprisingly fun study to do. I had a great time searching for things like old newspaper clippings on Google and messing with their colors and saturations. I tried to make it look like the top of the picture plane was further away from the bottom by arranging smaller blocks on top and lighter colors to contrast the heavy, thick blocks on the bottom pulling the arrangement down to the base.Study 4 Photo Blocks
So in the 4th study, I was trying to use several different pictures cropped out of loosely related photos. I had this one of Audrey Hepburn that I was using, it dawned on me to cut that one up into the 10 squares. I arranged them so. I really like this one. It's my favorite of the 4, and not just because I like Audrey Hepburn. How it is still one congruous photo because of the organization of the blocks, but each column dosen't give all the info needed to discern what is going on is really pleasing to my brain.
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You know I once read that most blogs have one reader. Thanks Mom. Knew I could count on you.
Anyway, thanks for reading (Mom). Please feel free to leave comments.
What are pants anyway?
Pants.
I can't sleep because of pants. I can't sleep because all I can think about is pants. Why pants?
Why did I decided to make pants? Hell, I don't know. I decided to make pants because when this was all announced*, I thought, "PANTS!" It's that simple.
I've got the context and the form but not the concept. No concept of why pants. (I wanted to tell my prof, John Marshall, well why not pants! But that wasn't a good answer. But it would have been funny.)
FAAAANNNNNCCCCCYYYYYYYY PAAAAAANNNNNTTTTTSSSSSS!
Well at least I finally downloaded some Tegan & Sara. I heard "Back Into Your Head" on the radio once or twice and finally got some of their stuff. Great stuff.
I think I like chick rock. Oh well. It's really catchy. Check out their myspace to hear some stuff.
*the project is for CFC (concept, form, and context) II. It involves a larger than life add on to your body, made out of more or less, trash and recyclables. I'll detail my plans more thoroughly later when they are finalized.
I'm going to bed now, I needed to vent on PAAAANNNNTTTSSSSSS!!!!! Thank you for reading!
I can't sleep because of pants. I can't sleep because all I can think about is pants. Why pants?
Why did I decided to make pants? Hell, I don't know. I decided to make pants because when this was all announced*, I thought, "PANTS!" It's that simple.
I've got the context and the form but not the concept. No concept of why pants. (I wanted to tell my prof, John Marshall, well why not pants! But that wasn't a good answer. But it would have been funny.)
FAAAANNNNNCCCCCYYYYYYYY PAAAAAANNNNNTTTTTSSSSSS!
Well at least I finally downloaded some Tegan & Sara. I heard "Back Into Your Head" on the radio once or twice and finally got some of their stuff. Great stuff.
I think I like chick rock. Oh well. It's really catchy. Check out their myspace to hear some stuff.
*the project is for CFC (concept, form, and context) II. It involves a larger than life add on to your body, made out of more or less, trash and recyclables. I'll detail my plans more thoroughly later when they are finalized.
I'm going to bed now, I needed to vent on PAAAANNNNTTTSSSSSS!!!!! Thank you for reading!
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
WizWheelz Industrial Design Work
Over the summer of '07 I worked as a Design Intern/Assembler/Jack of All Trades (that was more or less my title) for WizWheelz (home of the TerraTrike), a recumbent trike company. It's like a lawn chair with wheels and a Ferrari chassis. Check out the WizWheelz link for pictures of these comfortable speed machines.
Anyway, I did frame design and reworks for them and also had a hand in designing some accessories for the line of trikes. I specifically worked on a headrest design that I helped with in the final prototyping stages and a seat riser which was given to me in the initial stages of development. This one was my baby, it was handed to me as a rough idea and prototype and it was my job to make design it to look good and function flawlessly.
The headrest is currently finished and back from Taiwan in full production and you can now buy something that I had a hand in crafting. Below is one of my technical drawings and a picture of the finished product.
My technical drawings.
The finished product.
For the headrest my main input was the adjustably of the model. Initial drawings and prototypes only had the telescoping rods for height and neck adjustment. When I got my hands on it and applied the companies tag line of having the most adjustable trike on the market to the headrest. The rotating joints you see behind the pad and on the lower telescoping arm are my doing. With these joints the customer is able to specifically set how they want the pad to rest on their neck. I was very proud of this contribution. If your into triking and have a TerraTrike you can purchase one here, the WizWheelz accessories page, it's at the top. (There is however, no commission in it for me. I'm making no money if you click there...or am I? Nope, I'm not.)
My baby, the seat riser, is still in Taiwan waiting for final production.
The Main Unit
The Lower Seat Stays
Anyway, I did frame design and reworks for them and also had a hand in designing some accessories for the line of trikes. I specifically worked on a headrest design that I helped with in the final prototyping stages and a seat riser which was given to me in the initial stages of development. This one was my baby, it was handed to me as a rough idea and prototype and it was my job to make design it to look good and function flawlessly.
The headrest is currently finished and back from Taiwan in full production and you can now buy something that I had a hand in crafting. Below is one of my technical drawings and a picture of the finished product.
My technical drawings.
The finished product.For the headrest my main input was the adjustably of the model. Initial drawings and prototypes only had the telescoping rods for height and neck adjustment. When I got my hands on it and applied the companies tag line of having the most adjustable trike on the market to the headrest. The rotating joints you see behind the pad and on the lower telescoping arm are my doing. With these joints the customer is able to specifically set how they want the pad to rest on their neck. I was very proud of this contribution. If your into triking and have a TerraTrike you can purchase one here, the WizWheelz accessories page, it's at the top. (There is however, no commission in it for me. I'm making no money if you click there...or am I? Nope, I'm not.)
My baby, the seat riser, is still in Taiwan waiting for final production.
The Main Unit
The Lower Seat Stays The seat riser was super rough when it landed in my lap. We had a rough prototype that we had tested and structurally liked but it needed some help with it's looks and finer details. It was very boxy when I got it and I gave it smoother, rounded lines and designed the attachment system. I also designed the lower seat stays from the ground up with torsion resistance in mind because of the extra length they would have to cover than the normal lower seat stays. I can't wait for this one to get back from Taiwan and see the final product. I'll post it when it comes in!
Thanks for reading! Feel free to leave comments.
Thanks for reading! Feel free to leave comments.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Messages
I'm taking, like all freshman A&D students at Michigan, the TMP (Themes, Materials, and Processes) series of classes. I'm currently in TMP II : Messages. It's about the messages conveyed by art and the art process, we are concentrating on 2-d design. I'm super excited about it, the class seems really interesting and the prof is excited to be there and has some interesting projects lined up for us. Below I have posted part of the first project we are working on, it's about spaces. It's just cut out paper on heavy stock paper. We had to use 10 rectangle or square black paper blocks (we got to pick what sizes we wanted) and arranged them on a 6x6" square. All I could think of was sheet music, not sure why, I'm tone deaf. But this is what came out of me.
I like it, the predictability of the vertical lines relatively evenly spaced out overlapped by the more random, different sized horizontal bars is really appealing to me.
I had some scraps and which had some rubber cement on them and had stuck together in the form you see them in below. I simply put on some more rubber cement and attached it to a long rectangle of heavy paper stock. I think it looks like a cross. It's appealing to me because I didn't mean for the black paper to be arranged in that order, they simply fell like that. All I did was glue it on some paper. I still like it though.
I was playing around with scanned image of the cross with the free photo editing software The Gimp Shop after class. Bare with me, it's my first digital image manipulation past red eye removal and cropping. But it was fun, and I like how the image stands out in gray.
I like it, the predictability of the vertical lines relatively evenly spaced out overlapped by the more random, different sized horizontal bars is really appealing to me.
I had some scraps and which had some rubber cement on them and had stuck together in the form you see them in below. I simply put on some more rubber cement and attached it to a long rectangle of heavy paper stock. I think it looks like a cross. It's appealing to me because I didn't mean for the black paper to be arranged in that order, they simply fell like that. All I did was glue it on some paper. I still like it though.
I was playing around with scanned image of the cross with the free photo editing software The Gimp Shop after class. Bare with me, it's my first digital image manipulation past red eye removal and cropping. But it was fun, and I like how the image stands out in gray.
My Photography
I love to shoot photos. To help all of you acquaint yourselves with my art styles, I've posted a smattering of some of my favorite shots. I use a Nikon D-40 with an assortment of different Nikon lenses. If you'd like to see more, you can also check out my photo/rambling musings blog, UMpetehall. Enjoy and please feel free to leave comments.
Thanks!
Kara, my finance.
Rebekah, my sister.
One of my favorite photos I've ever taken, the reflection in the window is great. Also, how it frames itself several times is ascetically pleasing to me.
My Dad, Martin. Dad. Dad Hall.
The saddest looking kid on the Michigan Diag.
Downtown A2 (Ann Arbor for all you out of towners.)
Thanks for looking!
Thanks!
Kara, my finance.
Rebekah, my sister.
One of my favorite photos I've ever taken, the reflection in the window is great. Also, how it frames itself several times is ascetically pleasing to me.
My Dad, Martin. Dad. Dad Hall.
The saddest looking kid on the Michigan Diag.
Downtown A2 (Ann Arbor for all you out of towners.)Thanks for looking!
Drawing 100 (Literally)
So, welcome to my digital portfolio blog. This may be simply an assignment for a class, but I really like the idea of keeping a digital version of my portfolio and I'll be updating all my course work here. Now everyone can see my work!
Before I delve into any current class work, I'll get you up to speed with my (limited) first semester of Michigan's Art & Design School. I had a drawing class, 100. It was a life drawing class (nudes! hehe) and I hadn't drawn since middle school so I was quite pleased with the results that I got out of myself. I've got a sampling of some of my favorite works from last semester below. I hope you enjoy, please feel free to leave comments at the bottom! Thanks!
This was from Halloween, the model kept her costume on, she didn't have horns for real. Sorry.
Before I delve into any current class work, I'll get you up to speed with my (limited) first semester of Michigan's Art & Design School. I had a drawing class, 100. It was a life drawing class (nudes! hehe) and I hadn't drawn since middle school so I was quite pleased with the results that I got out of myself. I've got a sampling of some of my favorite works from last semester below. I hope you enjoy, please feel free to leave comments at the bottom! Thanks!
This was from Halloween, the model kept her costume on, she didn't have horns for real. Sorry.
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