Muse Poster

Here is my entry for the Muse poster competition sponsored by our local alt-radio station here in Portland. I didn't win, but it was a good exercise to see what I could come up with in an hour. It was good getting back into some graphics.

One DPI

This was a great project I completed back in 2006 with Brendan O'Grady, Jen Sobieraj and a few other friends. It was part on an exhibition for architecture firms in Dallas and we entered this piece for RTKL. It was a great success and we got published in RTKL's publication called Works In Progress. You can check out Jen's blog here and Brendan's website here.

Graphic Designs

Here are a just a few examples of some graphic design pieces I did for KPMG back in the day. The bottom three that are stacked were proposals I designed for the different companies. For the lecture at Notre Dame I described the work I was doing with these types of products.

A Chair Fabrication

The A chair was completed last week! Took it out to Pier park for some photos on a beautiful afternoon.

A Chair Redux

After working on the mock-up I made some changes to the design: raised it up to 18" off the ground and increased the width of the seat and back to make it more comfortable. I'm planning on producing a final version this coming week in dimensional cedar and hope to come up with a prototype for a side table, bench, and an arm chair version. Stay tuned for the A-Series!

A Chair

This is a new chair I've been working on for our growing collection of patio furniture. I went through several iterations of this to reduce the bulky feel, It's easily constructed out of 2x4's and 1x's. I'm going to try and construct a mock up this week and hopefully a finished piece before heading to Texas.

Chicken Coop 101

A few weeks ago I started building the chicken coop for our backyard that my wife asked me to design. We have five little chics now and this will be their new home this year. I designed the coop in Sketchup (above) and after some rough materials estimating I began building it in the shop. The coop features two nesting boxes, a 'guillotine' doorway, covered feeding area, insulated south wall, cross ventilation, and (as far as I know) the first green roof for a chicken coop in North Portland!

Framed Sculpture Series

This is a series of three spatial studies that I did yesterday with some MDF and Hemlock that I had in the shop. I've done some past work like this but wanted to see about using it in a series. I can turn these out pretty qucikly and it has a high visual impact. Each piece is about 6"x8."

Antlers

Here's a modern interpretation of traditional sportsman mounted antlers. I've been toying around with this idea for a while and hope to produce more in the next few days. This is the largest one and I'm thinking of doing a few smaller ones to support it. Best part of this: no deer or woodland creature was harmed in the making of this!!