April 2010
6 posts
Crayon Rings 2009
This project began as a very simple solution to the theme of “color” for a show sponsored by the American Design Club. Since then the product has taken off and is sold in shops, museums, and galleries all over the world such as the Future Perfect in Brooklyn, the Tate Gallery in London, Oye Modern in Australia, The Norweigan Centre for Design and Architecture in Oslo,...
I've spent some time thinking about you today....
A theme I’m always working towards is the idea of a person or a thing being everything to everyone. A few years ago I tried to write a very unspecific and innocuous message that could be applied to everyone I saw in a vaguely positive way. I began giving out these business cards to strangers without saying anything else or giving them time to respond to me directly. I continue to give...
Shoestring settee 2008
This was a project completed for 225 Forest, which is a store in Laguna Beach, CA bringing all the action sports products from Nike, Hurley, and Converse into one retail location. The brief from Converse was to simply create a piece of furniture which is compatible with their brand. The final result is three found chairs whose forms are very different from one another, brought together...
Quick and dirty 2009
Another tenet of good design that I’m constantly chasing is simple manufacture. This stool was made in a few short hours, from conception to completion, with found objects as well as common materials bought at a hardware store. The unique form of the seat comes from pouring cement into a bucket and the joints between the seat and the legs were made simply by sinking the tops of the...
Teaching boys to be men 2008
I continue to be interested in shared experiences and shared nostalgia. This is a refurbished pellet gun which represents an early rite of passage. It’s a personal piece which many people won’t immediately relate to but I wanted to take an object which is inherently childish and mature at the same time and enhance those elements even more by presenting it in sophisticated...
Be Well 2005
This chair was the premier example from a series titled “Be Well.” The aim of the project was to explore something we all generally want: to be well, then take it to an extreme that might make us question that desire. The form and materials of the chair are all carefully selected to be at once familiar and off-putting. The simple, blond wood is familiar in a domestic setting,...