I've been photographing their work and cleaning up for their site. I hope to get their site more advanced than what it is. But the work speaks for itself, its beautiful.
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JL Custom Works
I've been helping my sister and her husband on their website. Jeff and Jeanna Linenkugel are both very talented and I'm so glad I could be a part of everything they've done in the last few months.
Architect Desk Review
I've been working on the Architect desk a bit more recently, so I decided to post it here for review and any comments. Everything is a redesign after the surveys and feedback I received.
What is missing from the image: filing, drawers, maybe a reference wall or shelf, the keyboard and mouse tray, the hotkeys on both sides of the Cintiq and all of its user interface. Underneath the desk's metal frame will be screw in levels for those uneven floors.
The chair I'm reference is the Aeron Work Stool.
The computer is a flat layout beneath the Cintiq screen. The metal wrap is the case for the unit which is supported by the frame underneath. Also, the desk is symmetrical, so the shelving will be on both sides.
Tea House
After a lot of brainstorming today with and without the group I wanted to begin sketching what I picture this design to be. Obviously from the renders below I'm not taking the industrial designers route.
Not just a tea project
So for this current project I'm going to focus on the design of the entire environment surrounding the tea ceremony. The New Way of Tea is a design exhibition directed at bringing the tea ceremony into the current world.
For example, With extensive use of a modern material (Plexiglas), artist Jae Eun Choi devised a tearoom with a visually continuous interior and exterior. This gravity-defying design embodies the image of water in a constant flow. The walls are arranged at asymmetrical angles to convey forms of eddying water. In the midst of this imaginary movement, a water-filled vase sits quietly in the center of the tearoom. Representing the ever-reciprocal movement between yin and yang, Choi’s tearoom evokes Lao-tzu’s image of a vase filled with water:
Treat the fullest vase as empty, and it will not run dry in use.
- Lao-tzu, The Book of Change
The New Way of Tea | Design Brief
The New Way of Tea | About
Focus | Design a Tearoom and tea utensils that follow these criteria
-Must be in sync with The New Way of Tea in following the philosophy of chanoyu
-Follows Masakazu Izumi’s guidelines for principles, process, and continuity
-Uses at least one of the four principles of chanoyu as the starting point to gain the sphere of all four principles.
-Brings modern design into a traditional ceremony. Culture is the reference, not the design.
-The design needs to be simple, nothing extraneous.
-Supply various themes, upon critique, follow the chosen theme
Take into consideration
-Tea pots are only part of the design; the holistic tearoom environment is the design.
-A tearoom does not stand by itself. It is defined by the environment and is inseparable from the myriad of meanings embodied within various elements that surround it.
What I'm reading. February 16, 2010
I have been reading some older comics and some ImagineFX magazines recently. Also, my dad brings home Healthcare Packaging for me and I go straight to the New Materials section, there is usually one gem in there that relates to product design.
I'm currently reading Spawn / Batman from Image Comics and simultaneously reading Batman / Spawn War Devil from DC. Pretty cool to see these 2 together. The art from 94 was so colorful and the KRAK! KRAK! CHOK! SKRAKK TUNCH KRAKK! 's are hilarious
On the back burner | various freelance books
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