Time Abstracted reinvents the classic form of a watch and abstracts classic time telling, to create beautiful Jewelry-esque watches.

    Watches in their current forms have existed since the 1860s, and have since become a common household object. Through the years their purpose has moved beyond based purely on functionality, and now are also used as a status symbol. Like jewelry, watches express personal style, and wealth. This project explores watches as a form of jewelry, by abstracting their form into more traditional bracelet silhouettes. 3-D modeling softwares such as Rhino and Grasshopper were used to model two unique watch designs. The first watch resembles a classic bangle, and the second takes a more organic form, inspired by ocean corals. 

Rhinoceros Controller aims to enhance the way that the user interacts with 3D modeling software with a more direct connection though a handheld device. 

Rhinoceros Controller can inspire users to create new ways of designing in rhino and can engage them with something more interesting than a keyboard and mouse. Instead of the letter and number keys on seen on more conventional keyboards this design utilizes Rhino's aliases feature to assign commands to keys instead of letters. One of the dials on the back of the device can be used to switch between categories of commands. Combining the number of keys on the front and back of the device gives it a range up to 90 commands, more than enough for each category. The keyboard's unique shape is optimal for holding for a long period of time. Rhinoceros Keyboard is meant to be a useful device for those who want to interact with Rhino in a new, more direct way.

This final project, for me, is a final way to show the skills that I have built in rhino throughout the studio. I worked with rhino modeling to re-design a speaker that was sleek, and customizable. I spent a lot of time working to create renderings that you would see on a website. These renderings display the product with all of the different color options, along with the various handle designs I modeled. 

Magic 8 ball redesign: A product that helps with decision-making that can answer more than yes or no questions by allowing the user to create answers more specific to their situation.

This project exists because the original magic 8 ball does not help answer enough questions. It is for people who are having a hard time deciding between a few options. It works by having 3 independently spinning dodecagons with a number on each side. The user can make answers for each number, then spin the wheel, and get the results.

Controls of the Future: An exploration of abstracting past nostalgic objects into modern wearables.

As cyberspace and the internet is becoming more and more entrenched in the way humans interact with their physical environment, the push for creating innovation linked to our natural rhythms to make seamless interactions between the physical and meta-verse will drastically shift how we engage with technology. With medical regulators like the heart rate monitor and technology like Bluetooth, our body can become inputs for innovation that fuses the two (seemingly separate) worlds. The apple watch and Fitbit are two examples of products that take our symbiotics and create outputs telling us to move our bodies, contact loved ones, or address something taking place in our physical body and personal lives. But what if this could be applied to products lost to the past?

The Sony Walkman -- the first portable music listening device -- is coveted for pathing the way to mp3 players, and now streaming platforms like Spotify and iTunes music. Today, portable music exists for the most part solely on our phones. The physicality of buttons and sliders on the walkman made it both an auditory experience and an interactive experience. How can we bring this sort of physical interaction back to the present, with the popularization of minimalist design when it comes to technology?

In this series of studies, the Sony Walkman is completely abstracted from its original form and re-imagined as another common wearable: a ring. Continuing to utilize the Walkman's physical features like buttons, the staple listening device now can slide onto the finger for an even sleeker experience. Numerous construction methods were rendered; ranging from classic ring forms to more organic sculpted models, and taking geometric patterns and manipulating them into natural curvature to fit the finger.

Fibromyalgia is a disease that effects the nerves, causing deep pain throughout the body. This makes many everyday tasks difficult to accomplish. Footwear that is meant to help people with conditions that effect their feet is often ugly and doesn't address fibromyalgia symptoms like pain caused by too much pressure to certain areas of the foot. To combat this absence of adequate shoes, we interviewed someone with fibromyalgia and researched in order to find the specific symptoms to treat. We made our design flexible and supportive to the areas of most pressure on the sole. Our shoe also has cloth that is breathable and a midsole that is made of a soft silicon. All of these elements come together an ideal shoe for people with fibromyalgia.

Reflections

I would add a better way to attach the layers. I would also make a full scale model that could be tested on an actual foot. A more in-depth study of different