3 Ideas with limited Commercial Potential

For Core77

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  1/23/2010

  Mr Sketch Markers in 3D!

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  1/07/2010

  iPhone Body Mods

For Core77.

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  12/11/2009

  I turned 30 today.

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  12/02/2009

  Cog + Rockstar's Socially Responsible Holiday

My half of a collabo with Lunchbreath for Core77's Holiday Gift Guide:

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  11/30/2009

  Segway Hacks

Created for Core77.

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  10/02/2009

  Introducing: Cog + Rockstar

Introducing Cog + Rockstar, two iconic designer stereotypes "personalities" created in collaboration with Toby Lunchbreath for Core77's Hack2Work Special. Vinyl toys and graphic novels to come.



See more of my scrawlings.

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  9/15/2009

  Redefining Modern Luxury

Originally drawn for Core77 / See more drawings

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  8/14/2009

  Yeah.

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  8/06/2009

  Stick of Buttergum

Originally drawn for Core77 / See more drawings

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  7/30/2009

  Coffee Temperature Acceptability Index

Originally drawn for Core77 / See more drawings

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  7/10/2009

  The Computar

Originally drawn for Core77 / See more drawings

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  7/09/2009

  Lego Remote Control

Originally drawn for Core77 / See more drawings

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  7/09/2009

  Jai-Alai: Sport of the Future

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  4/07/2009

  VizThink 2009

Drawing has been a part of my life since as early as I can remember. I did it to escape reality, and create other worlds-- and it was fun. Years later, after discovering industrial design, it became an important part of how I explored ideas and communicated them in my chosen career path. Now after 6 years of working, and drawing more and more everyday, I've found myself at a point where I'm beginning to look at my drawing abilities as more than just a means-to-an-end in design. Part of this has manifested itself in the visual facilitation and storyboarding work I've been doing at gravitytank and part in the teaching I've been doing at SAIC. I'm beginning to better understand the power of drawing, what I can do with it, and where I will take it in the future.

The end of February found me on the West Coast for this year's VizThink conference-- an amazing conference of people who use drawing and (mostly) lo-fi visualization tools to think through complex problems from design to public policy to business consulting. This conference stood out from most of the others I have ever been to since it didn't cater to any one particular industry-- in fact quite the opposite! It was more like a cross section through a dozen industries, that revealed the rare handfuls in each one that are great with communicating with a pen on paper (and to a lesser extent Keynote/PowerPoint and Adobe Suite). Many of the speakers and participants act as group facilitators in their everyday jobs, so consequently VizThink was in many ways a workshop-for-workshop-facilitators-- the overall quality of each session was quite high. In addition to some insightful sessions, I also presented a session on "Collaboratively Storyboarding Experiences", something I've been doing a lot at work over the past few years. It was well received, and it also seemed to be a somewhat unique point-of-view for the VizThink world as well.

With all that said, here are some straight up scans from the 10 spreads of notes I took at the VizThink conference. I wouldn't normally scan these so raw, but that's kind of the spirit of the conference, so enjoy and click through for the rest:

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  3/29/2009

  The New Luxury

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  2/28/2009

  Collared shirts & coffee

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  1/17/2009

  Keep the hand moving

Some recent doodles:

Did I mention I'll be teaching a design class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago starting in January? "Object Sketching: Ideation and Illustration". Watch out.

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  12/11/2008

  Secret Pizza

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  10/15/2008

  Bike Lock 2.0

Core77.com's One Hour Design Challenge: Design a better bike lock in one hour or less. I figured that since hipsters love to post pictures of their bikes on the web, why not let them post pictures of the thieves that steal them?

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  3/19/2008

  The Mixologist

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  3/03/2008

  Packing Vertically

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  2/04/2008

  Totally

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  1/25/2008

  Magic Slippers!

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So simple it's almost stupid.

I wish for this every morning as I groggily sweep my hand around under my bed searching for my slippers (a pair of wonderfully minimal linen slippers from MUJI). Then I put the left one on my right foot and the right one on my left foot. I realize this halfway to the kitchen to make coffee. I'm not a morning person.

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  1/04/2008