My perfect bag (or the closest i've come to it)

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Footwear Midterm: Design for Dominatrixes

I am pretty pleased with these two. Originally I had three designs draw up during the test, but two out of the three aint bad. Right now it's all about: colorblocking, bold/chunky/statement, and dominatrixes. It's funny though, beside the colorblocking, none of that is very typical style inspiration for me. Or at least its never in the front of my mind. Just sharing the shoe-love, enjoy! (click to see bigger images)

Part II: Eindhoven and Dutch Design Week

The next installment of my fall break adventures, dutch design week in Eindhoven (WARNING: super image heavy post):

Sunday School of Madness, this was a great exhibit.

Penguin will stop the death of print media

On my way home from class this afternoon I subconsciously decided to procrastinate by going to the bookstore. I say subconscious because I was fully aware that I had work to do, but hadn't the vaguest idea of its expanse. In other words, I really was planning on making a quick stop, churning out a paper and getting to sleep. Well the bookstore was more than just a quick stop, of course. I went in with a purpose, to buy a design book I have been thinking about since I first saw it three weeks ago (see, a thoroughly considered purchase, also it's italy-specific, so therefore counts as a souvenir). After finding the intended book I decided to wander up a level, just-because-you-know I had never been up there. Hello Penguin 'Great Ideas,' goodbye homework. Whoops. Please click through to the link. It's beautiful. What the Penguin publishing housing is doing with graphic design will save books. There is no circumstance that would make me choose an ebook version of any other these over their hard copies. They are a pleasure to hold, look at, and of course read. Judge the book. Judge the cover. They are beautiful. The great ideas series, which of course is not available in the states, brilliantly packages classic essays and works on philosophy in clean, fresh, unintimidating paper backs. I want to own (and read) them all. Too bad the collection in entirety will set you back over seven hundred dollars. Whoops.

Green Packaging Design

This is what I should be learning about in that class. Too damn cool. Replacing styrofoam with mushrooms.

things i have learned in my life so far

Inspired by mr. sagmeister himself (please click on it to view large):

and here, more directly:

via-ish, http://www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/

My Collection

The only class I try/enjoy: Footwear

Here's my collection for class last week. The design student in me got all digital with the assignment.

shoe collection

As i've mentioned before, one of the few classes here that I really enjoy is my footwear design class. This past week we got the wonderful opportunity to visit the 'last' factory, where they manufacture the lasts, which are models used in the construction of shoes. They kind of serve as a hard plastic model of the foot. Being the industrial design nerd that I am, this trip just made me giddy. I love getting a sneak peak into manufacturing. Here are some photos from the visit:

Shaping the first wooden prototypes for production.

Wooden prototypes, they use both additive and reductive methods.

Lots of lasts, mid production

golden.

 

Mmmm, highly recommended you watch this. That is all, goodnight.