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Good news! After working for four months, Donn Koh, Herlinda, and I have won the Gold Award for the LiteOn Awards 2009.

Check out our hard work here!

Cake

For the past 6 weeks in our Design Communications studio, Sylvia Spencer, Michael Kandel and I have been working to create a new brand/identity for Men's Beauty products. Our design team is called "Cake," because our designs provide many sweet layers of awesome solutions. The concepts shown here are what I rendered for our last critique, where we each presented 3 brand families. We have been working around having a design language that fits the theme "Urban Raw," which is for urban men who are attracted to pure colors and materials and a stripped-down lifestyle. Through our process we have been working together a lot and have made smart decisions because of it.

For our next step, we each are taking one of our concepts and refining the form, CMF (color, material, finish), the brand's story, graphics, and the user.  I will be refining the Envoy concept.

Chair Progress

It's our chair quarter this summer, and narrowed my concepts down to a story that explains nature through geometric forms. The theme is "in the park" where anyone who sits in it can be reminded of relaxing in the park. It is a quiet form, but has many intricacies and elements of surprise.

I'm currently refining the bench (form and legs) and figuring out the most efficient way to manufacture this. As of now, the bottom of the bench will be steam-molded felt which then will be needle felted to a linkage system of multicolored felt pieces. Through the gaps of the linkage system, surprises will come through and give a taste of nature.

I've come to be really fond of this concept and I think it really speaks out my personality as someone who's crafty and cute but also has a need for mathematics and structure.

Updated Portfolio!

I'm looking for some feedback before I start sending this out! Still thinking I should add something to the Compaq project... perhaps.

Check it out!

Feature Number Dos

On Core77, Carly Hagins' work and a pic of mine... people.. I reckon the ID world might be curious about our projects, eh?

So, I will post some things on last quarter's project soon!

Featured!

Thanks to Mike Roller! Our class's work was featured on NotCot and Mike's blog. Lucky me, that's a close-up photo of my model on the NotCot tag.

Great job to everyone this quarter. I was super impressed by their stories and how everyone has upped the level of their work this year. Whoo!

Also, thank you, Mike, for setting the bar of UC design professors. Above all, it has really motivated us to push our limits and present ourselves well.

The Kicker

I just finished my first illustrated story for the UC Graphic Novels class! Whoo! Check it out! Pics of the book might be posted...later.

Syl's in the class too and posted her work here!