In a previous post, I wrote about a new focus of embedded technologies but today I got to see the work first hand in action.  My colleague Dr. Juhong Park who leads the digital design initiatives at the school invited me to take part in his upper level studio's final review.  The goal of the... View full entry

Final reviews began this week here at the SoA.  Mine just finished, and here is the evidence, or I should say "Aftermath" of a long, but successful semester.  More photos to come later.   View full entry

You may have wondered what our background image in our blog page might have been. Obviously the topography and material give away that it is clearly a model of some kind.  This photograph is just a sample of one of the several models students here at the UMSoA have been constructing for an... View full entry

For those that have been following the story so far, this blog was meant to chronicle just one first year graduate student class. Originally, the purpose was to highlight ways of communication and problem solving in a visual media.  It has expanded to this professor's take on life at the School... View full entry

(This is only a fraction of the work from the semester long project)This semester has drawn to a close, with the final review happening yesterday afternoon.  Over the course of the semester, the students were engaged in masqueraded mini-design exercises that secretly showed them how to draw... View full entry

With only a few weeks left in the semester, the students are hard at work developing their proposals.  Below are a few small scale mockups that we are using to figure out where the designs need to be calibrated, trimmed, and re-worked before putting them through the CNC machine.  (Above, Version... View full entry

An early rendering for one of the abstracted motion forms.  This seat is an abstraction of the of a wine opener's movements.  A small scale mock-up model done in MDF for Monday awaits.  Rendering and model completed in Rhino. View full entry