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I'm fascinated with the new structures and textures that are possible to create with Additive Manufacturing. I've designed many small projects that test the...
The Konversation Kaleidor is a large, suspended kaleidoscope. Two people can stand on opposite ends and talk through a mirrored triangular space. As the Kaleidor...
I often go camping as a romantic way to spend a weekend with the girl I love, but when we retire to our tent to cuddle it never lasts long. Inevitably our sleeping...
In India, thousands of newborn babies are born premature in rural villages only die in transport to a district hospital. When confronted with the challenge of...
The Duo Flush is a system to retrofit an normal toilet to have dual-flush capability and save water. Through user research D2M recognized the original Fluidmaster...
The Polaroid GL20 glasses are the dream of Polaroid's creative director Lady Gaga. D2M was hired to make them a reality. The GL20 glasses can take pictures and...
This is my recreation of a famous Thomas Demand photograph, called "Archive", in which he creates the illusion of an archive of cardboard boxes by building the...
www.ijm-ent.com I was commissioned to create a flash based website to bring IJM Enterprises to web era and allow future customers to peak their interests on...
Created as a way to help add momentum to D.J. Mbenga's rising popularity and KIVA micro loans to help entrepreneurs in developing countries such as the Democratic...
After visiting Dimagi in Boston and finding out about all of the great work the company does for the developing world, I volunteered my time to create some layouts...
Rebeca Mendez Design was given the task of branding a film by Fredrik Gertten, BANANAS!*, which documents the process of a precedent setting trial over Dole's...
Side Projects and Proposals [solid state 3D display] -- only a proposal for a possible way to create a solid state 3D display which I conceived while viewing a...
The large image of a Hasidic boy created from a repeating image of Toulouse-Lautrec's head is a creation of a processing application I wrote for artist, Brian...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera was the focus for this piece. The concept is to capture through motion of the text, the lightness of being....
The dutch design group, MACHINE, came to UCLA D|MA and challenged the senior class to create material for multiple VJ shows. Each team of two students were given a...
While at USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) I have worked as a designer and developer, from planning to implementation of multiple projects. My...
WSB (like USB, but the Way it Should Be). I am currently in the process of prototyping a USB peripheral's peripheral device, which solves the problem of trying to...
Previously a member of the UCLA Dance Marathon Committee, occupying such roles as Design Media Director and Production Director overseeing a hundred person large...
When my friend David Meisenholder said he wanted to sell popsicles from a bike and call it the popsicle, I said, "brilliant!" and that night I made him a logo. ...
Recently inspired by watching The Social Network, I have decided to put more of my creative time outside of the office to use with code (still building too, but a...
I had just moved into my first apartment and found there was need for a coffee table that was more flexible than the standard static coffee table. Convert-Table is...
Embryo is a dynamic stereo cabinet created with guidance from Ilan Dei Studio. When closed, the graceful figure of Embryo hides the audio system within. But when...
While with Boeing I was chosen to work on the Solar America Initiative project. The goal of this project was to maximize the efficiency of solar cells through...
The RangeBa is an automated golf-ball collector designed to maintain a driving range. I used a iRobot Create platform and software to propel and control the...
When challenged to create an interesting product using only a 12"x12" plate of aluminum and a 3"x"3"x1" volume of ceramic pieces formed using a 3-D printer, I...
Much of my commuting at UCLA was done on via skateboard, but the campus' large hills and crowded paths necessitated a skateboard that had more control. If a...
I designed the Fore-Drill to address the need for an all-in-one tool that infrequent cordless drill users can feel comfortable with. The most noticeable improvement...
The ORB: Omnidirectional Roller Bag is a luggage piece with a radical new design built around two concentric spheres. The outer sphere is rubberized and acts as an...
When challenged to create an interesting interactive piece in a confined cube, using only one input and one output, I created this, the Beat Box. The Beat Box...
OK CODE -- the concept is that great things can happen from not stellar code. Story -- After viewing OkGo's latest music video WTF, I made a rare post to twitter...
This is my final project for an independent study workshop with Casey Reas at UCLA D|MA. It is a slit scan utilizing 4 Infrared sensors to determine my position...
An installation at the TV Of Tomorrow conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco Project Abstract: Today, T.V. is not what we once knew it...
An exercise of both political and electronic critique, the Rube Goldberg Voting Machine was a functional piece of artwork with strong concepts and collaboration. ...
This project was an exercise is using iterative processes and symbolic imagery to create a visual music for a musical composition. The composition I chose to...
During this current election year, I have never been so moved, inspired, and driven by politics that might be. The possibility of Barack Obama becoming President...
The book entitled Closer by Susan Kozel explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's definition of phenomenology. In creating a book for Kozel's work, I aimed to create a...
The animorphic cube was first rendered in maya, and then I recreated it in proper perspective in chalk to appear as a 3-Dimensional object from a single viewing...
Although this piece was made to loop, the concept was to feel as lost as these wandering clothes are. The unfamiliar deserted territory is no place for these...
