was so niiiiice. I want to go back to the beach. Iwant to eat a crème brûlée sandwhich for breakfast again. I want to live in Sagrada Familia. And the trees, Barcelona has the coolest trees ever. And it’s SO WARM.
Sagrada Familia:
Park Guell:
Around town:
(This is the Spanish version of Freitag bags it seems. Different kinds of cuts and at a lower price, Anouk got one)
The Barcelona house!
…was pretty impressive. I’m used to going to our senior shows and really being wowed by a handful of the seniors but here it seemed to be the other way around. All of the projects were presentable and the majority of them weren’t just pretty good they were REALLY good. Maybe I’m just not used to this amount of details in the models so I just got distracted by how nicely crafted they all appeared. My favorites were the ultrasound, Lufo inhaler and the m-pad (and this last one for hardly any other reason than I want one). Check out the photos below:
Here are the bathroom radios from the studio that Will, Chet and Ben were in:
Senior show:
Kid’s hospital computer(above).
I’m still not clear on what this is other than a medical device to help with a very rare sleeping disorder.
Sadly I didn’t get too many good shots of the Lufo(above) but, in short, it’s an all-around device for kids with asthma and not just an inhaler. Apparently when the girl who made it showed the concept to a group of kids even the non-asthmatic kids responded with “I want one too!”
The above is the handheld ultrasound device.
Emergency rescue equipment for locating trapped or buried persons(above).
The man responsible for the m-pad(above) is sort of Wuppertal’s version of Aaron Rucker. He is a guru with 3D modeling programs and teaches some classes but is still, technically, in school. The m-pad is a swiveling, right or left handed, drawing and modeling tablet for designers. If I heard correctly he actually presented the idea to multiple companies (including Wacom) who turned him down.
A very important detail of this touch-sensitive fussball table.
I thinks this projects was to take things that are small or big and reverse them to be opposite such as thegiant virus, giant clothes pin made of small clothes pins.
Star Wars based form project!
P.S.- I know, I really need to start resizing my photos. I promise I’ll stop being lazy about that soon. maybe.
This place is beautiful. The buildings, the cars (the scooters), and the people. Our first design stop was the Domus Academy, a very small private institution that teaches solely design. I got the feeling a lot of thinking goes on inside their building, more thinking than drawing for sure. They have design degrees I’ve never heard of being offered before (i.e. Business Design). The man who we heard talk, I assume he’s in charge, was a very excited older guy and he came off as being much younger than he looked (and he was wearing silly bands). Then we went out to Pininfarina, a design consultancy responsible for countless car designs and there car collection was amaaaaazing. Check the photos:
Yay, we’re back to the right side of the road! But now everyone speaks German, fair trade-off? Probably, since a lot of Germans speak decent English.
Frankfurt wins the prize for most interesting hotel location, right in the middle of the red light district. Now while we stayed in Frankfurt our actual design-related stop was a little further out, at Braun’s headquarters. And let me tell you (since I’m not allowed to show you) Braun’s building, especially the atrium, and their work are all gorgeous. Their building cools itself in the summer automatically without any electricity thanks to the construction of the roof and how it can open up to let air into the offices. And their collection – especially the products from the Dieter Rams era – is fantastic. They’re all so clean and functional but beautiful. Obviously engineered but also artfully and thoughtfully designed. But you should really just look at the pictures.
England was the easiest to get acclimated to of all the countries we visited, with the exception of nearly getting hit by cars on multiple occasions due that whole driving-on-the-left idea. And maybe this is more in the country side but really, no one really seemed to have bad teeth (Except the guy we saw at the fair along the river). All in all it was a lot of fun and we saw a lot of cool things. My only regret is that I never got my fish & chips (I think I’m realizing more and more just how much I think about food, this would be more concerning if I had a weight problem. Hopefully it doesn’t get there.)
Our main stop while in London was Samsung’s main European studio. I’m not sure how much of what they told me I’m allowed to say but they basically operate like a design consultancy, separate from the main corporation. They present or are presented with projects to or from corporate (it depends on where the idea/need is coming from) and then, if approved, begin work. So you get the atmosphere and some of the freedom of a consultancy with the monstrous budget and focus of a corporation, yes please.
Here are a few photo highlights from the trip:
I’m here, and I have no idea what anyone is saying unless they say yes/no hello/goodbye or thank you/you’re welcome. Things that I’ve encountered so far are grapefruit scented cleaner, a complete lack of open wifi to “borrow,” confusing outlets that are meant only to prevent injury to children, döner(!) and a complete lack of what I was lead to believe would be a less than warm greeting. So far everyone is really nice actually, except that guy in the van last night who yelled at us. Judging by the fact that no one cared to translate what he said it must not have been very nice. Anyways, here’s a photo:
This is actually Frankfurt, not Wuppertal. But still, Germany! I’ll get some more pictures up and start updating with my work as the quarter gets rolling. In the meantime I’m just going to walk around aimlessly and stop to use the internet at Starbucks or watch Italian movies dubbed over in German (like last night).
Just watched Fistful of Dollars and decided I might as well practice faces and photoshop painting simultaneously. So here’s a simple black and white of Clint from The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
process:
#1. So many problems with this one I threw it out and restarted but it was good just to get something up and see what I should focus on
#2. Had to square the jaw some more, move the eyes and fix the nose after this one
And here’s the reference image I used:
There’s still a few issues but I’ll live, this was just a fun exercise.
Here’s my entry into the Core77 1HDC: gestural interfaces. The idea is to have remotes that respond to hand movements in order to control heavy machinery from afar, one operator could conduct the actions of multiple machines to have them work in tandem without any risk of danger. Yes, I kind of just wanted to draw a heavy machinery robot.
once again, it’s been a while and this time I’ve only got two little pages worth showing. Alex’s robot thread and my nephew combined to inspire this idea for an alphabet book called “Alphabots.” Each robot is a letter and is acting out an adjective that starts with their letter and that they’re designed to carry out.
Any bright ideas on a child-appropriate action that starts with E?
