OKAYRESOLUTION: 2010

8.12.10

OkAYMEMPHIS

TESTING 1..2...3.

Okay Resolution. OKAYRESOLUTION.

OKAY RESOLUTION.

HUMdesign.

UPPERCASE.

lowercase.

"Memphis" is a slab-serif designed by Rudolf Wolf in 1930,

intended to compliment the geometric typeface, "Futura".

FUTURAFuturafuturamemphisihpmemsihpmeMSIHPMEM.

1.12.10

Noam Toran

Desire Management (2005) from Moving Image Group on Vimeo.

29.11.10

23.11.10

Wood Veneer Arch Wrapped In Leather

It is a simple stool that provides an active resting position.

The stool must rely on the use of it or rest on another structure in order for it to stand.

This creates a sensitive relationship that brings awareness to the space and human presence.

The stool is a thin wood veneer arch rapped in leather.

21.11.10

A chair conceived through both reductional and additive processes. The goal was to reinterpret the common mono-block lawn chair. The 'Forest' Lawn Chair presents to us a situational object that unlike a classic lawn chair, its purpose is to stay grounded in one spot.

Created out of a coloured plaster mold the trapezoid base will degrade over time due to extreme weather changes that will occur during Chicago's Fall and Winter months. The chair will be revisited in order to observe the degradation process that will happen through Spring's advent.

Will the weather create a better chair to sit in, will it allow the chair to be used different ways? The temporality of the base and the fact that it is the base itself that keeps the chair grounded makes for an interesting juxtaposition.

+Video

How to dress like an architect | Understanding Architecture, pt.10

19.11.10

Sorry, But....

This has to be the most unimaginative design, or lack there of, ever to contain my morning roast.

That being said...I'm kind of enamored with it.

In a brilliantly dismal way, it's entirely to the point.

Just sayin'.

MB

17.11.10

Something to Think About

DIY

16.11.10

Work in Progress

Some beginning computer sketches from a cup and saucer project I’m working on. The idea is to really accentuate the process of using a tea strainer. From the first step, which is filling the tea strainer, the last step being disposing of the strainer. These were some ideas of different layouts. The circles represent the holes for the strainer, the squares being the place for a teacup.

- Melissa C.

15.11.10

John's Phone

14.11.10

NONOBJECT

Check out the preview of the book. It covers a lot of what we have been talking about.
nonobjectbook

NONOBJECT iPad Book Demo from NONOBJECT on Vimeo.

11.11.10

Dancing Skins

This project had to be a continuation of a past concept (which shaped the project before this.) Then we had to take that idea and amalgamate it with a newer idea (which was based off an image that we had to choose and formally analyze).

My project focused on creating an phenomenological (experiential) space which would interact with the environment around it as you moved through it. The top bar on the pages is a diagram showing how the double skin would create a very dramatic blurring as you moved through it (the picture in the background is a horse.) It's a simple double skin placed t a strange angle.

The space is program-less, and site-less. Taking this rare opportunity, I created a visual connection between the earth and the sky through use of an oculus, to create a meditative space.

Because the sky is always beautiful :p

-Franklin Romero Jr.

Ps. Don't read too much into the text. on the pages. It was rushed through last minute typing before the presentation.

10.11.10

CLAMP Lamp

CALAMP Lamp is designed from the idea of recreating an old hobby that seems “tacky” or “old-fashioned”. After buying a book from the 1980’s about the art of egg decorating, I wanted to create a lamp that made this seem a little more modern. I took the shape of the egg and vacufromed it into a clear plastic version. I used that as the shade for the LED’s inside, being clamped by the laser cut plastic pieces which were glued together.

7x2” clear plastic and cut black acrylic

8.11.10

Magnetic "Record Player" Of Sorts...

Recently, I've been focusing on the idea of reinstating the necessity of human effort into objects- to create something finalized in form, yet more primitive in use, while maintaining some amount of practicality. This lent itself well to a recent graphic design assignment, which was to create an object that through manipulation of hand, would reveal the numbers zero through nine which until that point of revelation, are never to be whole in form. After one too many wildly profligate and ultimately failed attempts to design a ferrofluid zoetrope, I pursued the much simpler, modern record player form. I began by building slow and inconvenient motors, and circuits that utilized a compression button that the user would have to hold down quite firmly as long as they wished to hear music...I'm rambling. Long story short, I ditched the motors. Here now is the resulting prototype which hasn't been photographed properly as of yet:

+Goes without saying that there isn't much to the form. This was really my first encounter with materializing an object, and have little to no experience with constructing in such a way.

+The piece is accompanied by a rather unassuming white petal box.

+The inside reveals a screen printed pattern made from record groove micrographs.

+A gradient of "record sleeves".

+The numbers were designed to form abstracted shapes inside of the cut outs.

+Blah, blah, blah, a section of a number, in this case "3", blah, blah blah.

+Missing From Photo: The all important glove element. The glove utilized in this piece, which has been lost during my recent move, has magnets sewn into the finger tips. This then establishes the user as a power source, as they must move their hands over the "vinyls" to engage the magnets and advance the disks in order to reveal the number at some point. And, obviously, there is no stylus involved here. So many run on sentences, so little time.

+A visible number "3".

Additionally, here is a rather crude image of the number set designed for the records, all of which maintain an element of the circular shape of a 7" record label.

//MORGAN.

7.11.10

Wire Lamp

I've been working on a wire lamp that uses inner and outer laser cut inserts to give it vertical rigidity. A lot of trial and error went into just getting it to stand and not explode. It's definitely a work in progress but the concept of the main structure is working quite well so far.

As it sits now:

Progress:

-Michael Pappas

Maze

The Chicago CornMaze

A little rendering of a three week study of labyrinths from my Beans Labyrinths and Euclidian Geometry class.

What do you see?

Want the Sketch up Model?

-Zeke

6.11.10

The Yolk

Three Months in one picture, one week till the show, one day to wrap it up.

Come on by

November 13th 2010

6 o'clock

849 W Sheridan Rd Apt #1

-Zeke

MARS Project

Architectural intervention on Mars.

Matthew Keeshin

4.11.10

ONKALO

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world's first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

Once the waste has been deposited and the repository is full, the facility is to be sealed off and never opened again. Or so we hope, but can we ensure that? And how is it possible to warn our descendants of the deadly waste we left behind? How do we prevent them from thinking they have found the pyramids of our time, mystical burial grounds, hidden treasures? Which languages and signs will they understand? And if they understand, will they respect our instructions? While gigantic monster machines dig deeper and deeper into the dark, experts above ground strive to find solutions to this crucially important radioactive waste issue to secure mankind and all species on planet Earth now and in the near and very distant future.

3.11.10

Lloyd Kahn

SHELTER from jason sussberg on Vimeo.

29.10.10

Last Wednesday

Tape Dispenser

Exercise in disregarding archetype for a better object.
Allon Kapeller-L

22.10.10

Object Design League | New Space

Object Design League

16.10.10

Moral Geometry.

"I was told the room of a person's appearance on behalf of his heart, so heart is messy. Chairs simple."

Minneapolis based landscape architecture firm ROLU recently ventured into developing a series of Ply and OSB furniture pieces that for them are representational field recordings made from wood.

Enjoy.