Saturday, July 11, 2009

30 Days of Not Designing...

So a couple months ago, I set out on a self imposed challenge of "30 Days of Design". The plan being to force myself to create outside the confines of my work. It was a LOT of work. On the days that I chose to do renderings, it could easily consume the entire day. I got to day 19.

I hate not achieving goals, but this one was not to be -- bigger things happened.

On May 26th, I accepted an offer with the innovation startup Bulbstorm. It is chock full of exciting possibilities, including the design of an iphone app, a Facebook app, as well as all of the other web work and cool stuff that is part of the day to day.

Actually, just this week, we launched a contest that we have designed: There is $1,500 up for grabs -- so check it out! It will introduce you to bulbstorm.com beta as well, so you can see where that is headed. We are working every day to brainstorm its impovements.


Oh, and back to that 30 Days of Design. Was it not for that -- I would not have the entry that I submitted to Corel's International Design Competition -- so look forward to seeing what happens with that!

Here are the final layouts I submitted, as well as a link to see it as it should be seen: as a PDF.



Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Day 19: The Really, Really, Really Green Desk Lamp...


Yeah.  I just might build this one!  Especially since both of my companies (mine and the new career) both have lightbulb logos...

Day 18: The Steel Mailbox Post

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Day 17: Porsche Design Inspired Cell Phone, Refined.


Well, I don't have to compromise if I just make it a smartphone... so now it's a smartphone.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Day 16: The Porsche Design Influenced Cell Phone


When I started sketching this one, I had no criteria other than "cell phone", but as I scribbled, I realized that there are few cell phones that could be classified as "high design".

As I continued to subtract unneccesary knobs and dials and buttons -- and minimized the ones that were absolutely required, I found that I had ended up designing something straight out of the Porsche Design school of minimalism.  Which basically means that I want this phone... if only I thought I could live without a smartphone...