Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 07:38AM Come see Linea at the Wilsonart booth at this year's ICFF, May 19-22, at the Javits Center in New York City. It's still two months away, but I'm already looking forward to the wonderful mayhem of Design Week in my favorite city in the world.
On set at the Wilsonart photo shoot, December 17, 2011
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 01:21AM For thesis, the CCA ID senior class has been exploring games and the concept of gaming since last September. The research and prototyping culminated this past week in a Game Night intended to be something of a dry run for the big end-of-year show in May. The event was held at Submission Gallery in the Mission, which, as we hoped, provided just the sort of casual ambiance for a semi-chaotic jumble of gameplay.
I brought Matchmaker, the strategy-based pattern game that might be described as a mash-up between Scrabble and Dominoes, with a dash of Tetris thrown in. In truth, I had apprehensions as to how well it would capture attention in a raucous environment, but I was pleasantly surprised that people actually waited to play ("oh, can I jump in the next round?"). All in all, I probably played four rounds with as many as 16 people over the course of the night. (These were sustained, 15-20 minute rounds.) The feedback was quite positive overall, and I'm looking forward to moving some of Matchmaker's underlying concepts into new games for the remainder of the term. Read more about Matchmaker here.
Keeping score. Good idea for next time: a wall-mounted white board for better visibility.
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 01:59PM I'm proud to unveil my latest furniture piece, Linea, which yesterday was named a runner-up in the 2012 Wilsonart Chair Competition. Judges included two Wilsonart associates, the L.A. Times design critic and a curator from New York's Museum of Art and Design. Read all about Linea here. ICFF here we come!
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:54AM Less than two weeks until the final presentation...
Monday, October 24, 2011 at 06:38PM This past weekend was one to remember: Our Wilsonart Chair class traveled down to L.A. en masse to take in LACMA's "California Design" show...and along the way were fed, housed and entertained by the gracious Hillis family, introduced to glam interior design star Kelly Wearstler and taken on an impromptu tour of a private Frank Lloyd Wright House. Memorable would be an understatement.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Storer House
Inside the Storer House, the sweetest little desk and chair