Objects: fabrication
I design things to support my work and others: exhibitions, architecture, furniture, hardware, and graphics. Making is a form of study—combining traditional techniques with new technologies to find low-cost, DIY methods that yield surprising qualities. I like artifacts that straddle boundaries: virtual/physical, analogue/digital, traditional/progressive.
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I design things to support my work and others: exhibitions, architecture, furniture, hardware, and graphics. Making is a form of study—combining traditional techniques with new technologies to find low-cost, DIY methods that yield surprising qualities. I like artifacts that straddle boundaries: virtual/physical, analogue/digital, traditional/progressive.
Lil Lamp
A small lamp designed with Taisuke Wakabayashi
Lil Table
A small console table for an amplifier. 3D printed legs on a recycled cabinet door top.
Staked Desk
A poplar standing desk built using the "baton" pattern from Christopher Schwarz's The Anarchist's Design Book. The project was an exercise in this craft philosophy, continuing my use of a simple and robust staked-leg joinery technique seen in two earlier projects. The result is a functional and heartfelt piece of workshop furniture, built around a joint that is close to my heart.
Strange Pipe
A strange waterpipe designed by Stephen Ferroni, fabricated with my assistance.
Love Bench
Revisiting a concept from the Archon Studio, the Love Bench was designed as playful, interlocking, multipurpose furniture. It solves three needs: a bench near the door for putting on shoes (with storage underneath), a sturdy weight-lifting bench that avoids the typically ugly aesthetic of exercise equipment, and extra guest seating when pulled apart into stools. The interlinked design provides 8 staked legs for support in its bench configuration, allowing it to take a significant load.
CNC Chair
A prototype chair based on the dimensions of an Eames LCW, fabricated from scrap plywood using a Shaper Origin handheld CNC. The design was modified to focus on joinery, angles, and tolerances suitable for CNC cutting and to accept a recycled foam cushion. An unproduced second pass on the design featured more rounded, friendly ergonomics; this iteration is visualized over photos of the original chair using my augmented reality app, Wikar. Justin McCallister is photographed sitting.
Staked Bench
A solid maple bench with a CNC milled and hand-refined form. This piece was a key deliverable for the Archon Studio, a funded competition where students design a house and matching furniture that embodies a particular concept of dwelling. This bench was designed for my house entry, '12 Miles a Year'. The staked furniture technique was later revisited for the 'Staked Desk' project, though it was not affiliated with the studio.
Digital Picnic
A suspended holo-deck-like structure using projectors and a USB controller to adjust the environment with various images, patterns, and colors. I contributed production, assembly, conceptualization, and created visuals and an interactive controller using Arduino and Max/MSP, working with Christian Pepper and Robert Prochaska. We ultimately repurposed the installation into permanent furniture.
Cyprus Pavilion: Seoul Biennale
A lightweight VR installation featuring a 3D-printed, stereogram-inspired VR system that loops 360-degree stereo videos of climate modeling scenarios and disasters unfolding within a virtual model of Nicosia. I designed the system while assisting the VELab at the Cyprus Institute for the Cyprus Pavilion at the Seoul Biennale.
Bezeliness Intensifies
An art and research project in which I studied the aesthetics of frames and bezels through space-filling curves, packing algorithms, and reaction-diffusion simulations. The project also served as a personal investigation into various digital production techniques, including 3D printing, furniture making, pen plotting, rendering, video production, and reactive lighting for installations.