Red By Wolves

Loving these unisex shoes with leather straps over the laces. On sale as well!

Red By Wolves also has a great supply of leather bags and carry-alls.

Paper or Plastic?

Well what about leather?

A friend mentioned this bag a few days ago and while looking at another blog I stumbled upon it, and frankly couldn't picture myself without it. It's a common good made, extravagant. The simplicity of a paper bag has been made sexy and subtle. For $112 I see this bag in my hand sometime in the near future. 

http://www.goodforall.eu/winkel/product_info.php?cPath=113&products_id=634&osCsid=

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! 

In celebration of all the food and family I'm sharing these adorable aprons, and a picture of my family which I'm so thankful for.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/62356206/yellow-flower-print-retro-apron-with

Most of the family

A couple highlights from izismile

I don't know anyone who pours their milk from a pitcher, but I think a few more households will with this adorably quirky milk pitcher.

This too is another quirky product, the T-shirt with a gauge on it to show how long you've worked out based on how far your sweat marks have spread. 

http://izismile.com/2009/11/25/creative_objects_20_pics.html

My New Calendar Obsession!

Using capillary action this calendar sucks ink through the paper and as is slowly absorbs it fills in the appropriate date on the wall marking that day. The color of ink corresponds with our perception of the seasons... Blue for winter, orange for summer... I could picture this 16"x 24" calendar  on the walls of my future home. 

http://www.oscar-diaz.net/?p=1

Todd Chilton

Todd Chilton's art is something that I really enjoy looking at and would love to have in my home some day these few pieces were some of my favorites.

http://toddchilton.com/portfolio.html

Sophomore year- Quarter 1 Fall 2010

This fall was a challenging quarter, I took Drawing for Design, Model and Prototype Development, and Survey of Western Art 2. I thought I'd post a few projects from my model shop and drawing class just to recap on the past 10 weeks.

This is the start of my lamp on the wood lathe, I'm turning the block of wood into a cylinder before I carve out the shape.

Me working on the wood lathe, covered in wood chips

The finished form!

Now I cut it in half

Vacuum form plastic around each half

Two sides cut out, bondo-ed, and sanded ready to prime and paint. Pictures coming after winter break seeing as the lamp is in Georgia.

"Golf Cart Project"

This project was a team challenge, the class was split into two groups, golf cart and motorcycle. We had one week to construct a full scale golf cart using limited materials. Foam-core, adhesive, and pink foam where necessary. This assignment was to demonstrate fast prototyping out of cheap materials and team work. 

Redesigning an electric handheld home appliance.

Out of blue Ren foam I sculpted my form, using paint and metal mesh I tried to make it look as realistic as possible.

Drawing for Design Final

Draw a toy motorcycle in perspective then edit it

A Few Projects from Freshman Year

Drawing 1 final, Charcoal on Bristol

Drawing 1- Drawing in Orleans Square- Line weight variation

Black Micron pens on Bristol

2D Design- Demonstrating the Gestalt Principals 

Black Micron pens on Bristol

3D Design- Demonstrating rhythm using 20 or more repeating objects

Popsicle sticks and epoxy

3D Design- Line, Mass, Space...

Shoe made of shoes

Shoes, Ribbon, Epoxy, Nails, Staples, Wood

3D Design

3D Design final

"Richard" the lamp

Displaying- emphasis 

Side Table, Mannequin, Lamp Shade

Elvis & Kresse

I just stumbled upon this bran Elvis and Kresse. They make products made from recycled fire hoses! Here is a sampler of what they make and what they cost. Hope they excite you as much as they excite me!

                                                                 Fire hose guitar strap

                                                                       Fire hose wallet

   Fire hose messenger bag (my personal favorite)

http://www.elvisandkresse.com/index.html

I'm saving up!

Now I'm in no way a heels and pumps kind of gal. I'd much rather be in a pair of sneakers or flats, but these shoes by United Nude make me want to run around in heels all day everyday. The shoes are expensive for myself, but not impossible with a little saving.

                                                                 http://www.unitednude.com/

BitPlay

BitPlay has this lamp here, that I find too fun to handle. This is an example of the types of products I want to design. It's fun and quirky and I can't get enough!

http://www.bitplayinc.com/

New Clothes

So recently I've noticed that every time I get dressed I'm dressed in clothes from sophomore year of high school. So my mission is to have a style... A good style, so from time and again I'll be posting items that I find interesting or what I'd like to have. Example one... 

http://us.asos.com/Asos/Asos-White-Leather-Plate-Buckle-Belt/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=1402732&cid=6992&sh=0&pge=0&pgesize=20&sort=-1&clr=Tobacco

Blows My Mind!

Theo Jansen a Dutch kinetic sculptor blows my mind. He engineers these creature like structures which function and react using movements found in nature. The structures are wind powered and outstanding! Watching them move along the beach is hypnotizing, and I highly suggest that everyone give youtube a visit and check out his work.

Theo Jansen - Animaris Rhinoceros

Home

Today's my first day home for winter break I have 6 weeks off and am planning to fill each day with as much as I can. The things I want to accomplish include finishing my sketch journal for the "sketchbook project" http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject I'll include my work from that on here as soon as I get a few more pages done.
Next order of business is to improve quality and quickness of my sketching. Winter quarter I'll be taking a class which starts us off drawing 200 sketches in 48 hours so my goal is to master ballpoint pen sketching and inking by watching videos on http://www.idsketching.com/
Also Winter I'll be in a Rhino class, so I'm jumping on Lynda.com to do the tutorials, being prepared for what's to come is my priority.
Lastly I want to make a sculpture, nothing too extravagant, just something I've been wanting to make. Right now all I can say is that I need teddy bears, and lots of em.
Other than that my break will include working at Forst Gallery http://www.forstgallery.com/ Where I help with custom framing and selling art.