education + design + interaction + technology
An online companion tool for post-secondary creatives, Eddit is designed to replace systems like Moodle & Blackboard that aren't flexible enough for creative learning. Eddit goes beyond typical learning systems by splicing together the 2D & 3D frameworks of studio culture, learning, and sharing within the framework of a digital portfolio. It is built as a series of flexible, nestable grids that can be endlessly reconfigured. For...
'eddit Exploded' is an analog representation of my grad project 'eddit'. This display is inspired by Gabriele Meldaikyte's “Multi-touch Gestures,” in an effort to helps articulate the framework to viewers. 3D materials and craft are used to communicate the nested layers of the 2D 'eddit' system. This method gives the viewer something tacit to consider while learning about the complex website...
Enigmod is 90² Foot micro-space design for young urban living. Based on a meagre budget of just five hundred dollars, this micro-space provides the essentials while using the verticality of the space to it's full potential. A systematic evaluation of the 9 x 10 foot space and the user's needs allowed our design team to effectively retain the 90 square feet of floor space.
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Loop-up is a mobile app that provides remote support to people with chronic illnesses like Lupus and Multiple Sclerosis. Customizable menus enable users to track symptoms, medications and disease stressors to improve communication with healthcare professionals. Built-in reflection tools allow users to look back on the previous week's activities to find correlations and insights on how to better manage their health.
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Abraided is an exploration of the fraught tension that can occur when combining strength and fragility by using aircraft plywood for domestic object development. The finished product considers balance, repetition and irony. It is deigned for user assembly, and can be flat-packed into an 11x17 envelope for shipping and distribution.
Magnitive is a uniquely stackable board game designed to help dyslexic children learn to read, write and spell. Focusing on visual and tacit cues, the game allows children to make learning an adventure while ‘building-up’ language skills. Complete with several decks of phonetic learning cards, players can win new terrain pieces that forge a different adventure every time. The powerful magnetics embedded in each piece make playing and configuring pieces memorizing,...
'Sound Value' is an ode to a medium gone stale. It is a sculptural and systematic reinvestment of value through the use of repetition, assemblage and photography. Simply put, love of the message has been reinvested into the medium.
The work began as a series of accoustic-like, non-accoustic instruments and the collection of 13 lbs of CD's & DVD's. The donated disc materials quickly exceeded 20lbs until whittled down to the final iteration of the violin shell.
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