This page houses my biggest, prettiest, and most complete projects. For a look at ongoing work, smaller projects, passing fancies, and my perspective on design please check the blog.
Jan 12, 2012
So, after some trial and error, I finally have some lovely TARDIS rings to show off. They’re cast from a high resolution 3d print generated in SolidWorks. One of the beautiful bits about using a CAD program to drive the design is that I can change the proportions of the ring, shank, and TARDIS independently [...]
Nov 3, 2011
After seeing protests erupt all over the world I wanted to make something that could change the game a little. I want people to be able to protest with OWS without the risk of being fired for showing solidarity. I wanted to make something useful, portable, something that could make the biggest difference to the most [...]
Aug 4, 2011
For the past month I’ve been designing some passports with Mitch Altman. The purpose is to get people visiting more hackerspaces, interacting with the communities held within, and spreading ideas across different groups. I find the scavenger hunt element – trying to fill every blank space in your “visas” section with stamps from hackerspaces across [...]
Mar 31, 2011
I just put the finishing touches on a mace-shaped pillow, fashioned for NYC’s Pillow Fight Flash Mob this Saturday. It rocks the awesome. Surprisingly it took a good yard of cushion foam and two bags of poly-fill to do this one up right and get it nice and spherical. In other interesting news this may be [...]
Feb 27, 2011
I’m developing an enormous interactive musical sculpture called the Anywhere Organ. It uses organ pipes, salvaged from discarded church organs. With a combination of some electronics and CAD driven laser cut plywood I’ve designed a system that can easily be expanded to more voices and pipes as I gather more pipes and add to the system. I’ve [...]
Feb 17, 2011
While Diana Eng was a resident at Eyebeam I was asked to assist her with her project: Fairytale Fashion. The objective was to use wearable technologies, tessellated structures, and 3d printing to produce unusual, fantastical, and otherwise impossible fashions. There was also an education aspect to the project. In addition to generating algorithms, prototypes, and 3d models, I also produced [...]
Feb 16, 2011
While at the Bone Room I spotted a jar of mixed python vertebrae. I was awed by how they naturally fell together into patterns, linking up with each others’ ends. I decided to make some jewelry that drew from that same beautiful linkage. The process to make these was fairly simple. I cast a vertebra in [...]
Feb 16, 2011
In college a friend told me about an artist who lived for several days wearing glasses that turned his vision upside down. Apparently after a day or so his brain adjusted to his new perspective so remarkably that he saw the world as being upside down when he finally took the glasses off. The story [...]
Feb 16, 2011
While working as a designer for Instinct Engineering I developed some prototypes for Fusion Brands. The idea was to create rigid silicone volumes with attractive organic lines that matched their existing product lines. We started designing around a manufacturing process that would allow us to capture a rigid heatproof plastic structure in a silicone skin. [...]
Feb 16, 2011
As I’ve experimented with different 3d printing methods it’s struck me that, even though the process of printing an object is very different from the usual way products are made, the materials still move and bend in a predictable way. This set me to wondering if I could design features like living hinges, friction fastenings, [...]
Feb 16, 2011
Being both a fan of victoriana and Bioshock (related afflictions) I contrived to create for myself a belt buckle of the Bioshock logo. The prototype was milled out of machinst’s wax over on the Tormach 4-axis CNC at Techshop. After creating a mold in silicone I had some wax duplicates cast in bronze. You can [...]
Feb 16, 2011
I find the structure of horns and bone incredibly enticing. It’s captivating how you can see them from many perspectives and appreciate their structure from many scales. If you observe the shape of a bone, it’s incredible to think of the way it was formed both by the outward pressure of growth, but by the [...]
Feb 16, 2011
These digitally fabricated steampunk goggles took over a year of tinkering, procrastinating, and experimentation to build. I started with the metal pieces, designing them in Solidworks and cutting out waxes on a CNC milling machine over at Tech Shop SF. From there, parts were cast in bronze at a place called JR Casting. I designed [...]
Feb 16, 2011
A few months ago I published some experiments I’d been doing emulating MIT’s Bokode technology at home. For those of you who don’t know Bokode is a method developed in the Camera Culture Group at the Media Lab that tucks huge amounts of readable graphic information into a space as small as a LED. This [...]
Feb 15, 2011
I once had the opportunity to work with NASA engineers designing new concepts for returning to the moon. I learned from them a certain awe and respect for the monumental task of solving the problems of space. Every object taken into space is designed, planned, weighed, and engineered to the finest degree of detail. Every [...]