industrial design

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Together+ is a mobile device that encourages people to share their daily life with their loved ones. The goal of the design is to explore a more humanistic aspect of cellphone usage.

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Crab-to-Go is a seafood package design that is made from local materials and for local people in Maryland.

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Life Palette is easy to carry electronic agenda that uses colors to categorize events. Instead of typing, the handwriting feature gives users the freedom to fill up their life in their own way.

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This quality pencil sharpener has a built in storage space for spare razors and is made with durable plastics. This represents a consumer product which will last long and fight the environmentally damaging standards of planned obsolescence. 

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The mini glider was a collaborative project undertaken in my body mobility core studio.  It was a conceptual model for a personal glider that could be used for personal recreation, or sport.  It included and tested mechanisms that would allow it to fold down into the area of a full campers pack, allowing it to be highly transportable. 

The model consisted of over a hundred carefully planned and produced parts.  The structure was made in wood, that captured the immagination.

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Through mass production, plastic lawn chairs have become so common and blended into our everyday environment. They are considered to be inferior, disposable pieces of furniture, if considered furniture at all. By taking in historic references from the antique and reducing those forms to their essences, the chair is given a new authority.

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Cuboid is a multifunctional furniture/landscape that was designed for the children in St. Barnabas Daycare. The research covered for this project included children’s ergonomics, and their psychology with play. The assembly of this piece encourages the children to use their creativity to make different constructions. At the same time, it promotes the interaction between the children by helping each other. Targeted at an environment with very limited space, the design was intended to serve more than one purpose to decrease the need to purchase more furniture. The main materials used are honeycombs and plywood as an environmental alternative to solid plywood. 

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TOCA is a soft helmet that is designed for children who suffer from seizures as a symptom of their disabilities. Its main feature is to provide the wearers the opportunity to make their own fashion statement, and feel comfortable wearing it instead of being self-conscious. The components consist of the base helmet made of pastazote foam, and exchangeable skins.