complexity = good design?

meh.

Complexity may be impressive but it does not mean it is good design.

That's been annoying me lately.

This is the interlocking system done in my materials and tools class. It was the project that coincided with the cube that my professor allowed us to redo. I added a color and extended the interlocking pieces since it no longer was required to fit in the cube and no longer required to be black and white.

materials: bristol board

This is a camera I'm working on right now. The colors I just added on for the sake of turning something in for my class.
The lens part rotates and works as the on and off switch. You just slide the bronze part. I haven't added in buttons or really finalized anything other than the basic shape. So, a work in progress.

A rendering of a faucet using solidworks.




An injection molded plastic chair. A remake of the lawn chair I guess. I'm going to redo it with arm rests and the seat part of the chair needs to be redone.

This is a measuring cup and a pitcher done on the CAD program, Solidworks.
It is plastic injection molding.

This is a children's wardrobe, the final project for my materials and tools class. It was a group project done in two weeks.
It is modular, the bottom (blue) portion has two drawers and the top two pieces (yellow, red) has a bar for hanging clothes inside.
materials: particle board

my first project in model building.

the first is to create an interlocking system using only bristol board. no adhesives are allowed.
I was heavily influenced by architectural design elements for this project and my main focus was the play on shadows.
my professor is giving the entire class more time to work on this one so this one is still in progress. the interlocking system no longer needs to fit inside the cube (second part of the project) so that will affect a lot of other students designs as well as my own. I'll be putting my finished interlocking system up once it's done.

the second is to deconstruct the cube and show different design elements within each side of the cube using only foam board.
once again, architectural influence. i treated the cube as if it was an office building of sorts. I was somewhat influenced by eric owen moss on this one. mostly because i visited culver city shortly before this project and i was feeling very 'architecturalish?'

all of the pictures were taken hastily with my camera phone. sorry for the bad shots.