Graduate Work
Integrative Design MS
Rochester Institute of Technology
Disciplines | Project Planning, 3D Rendering, Drawing, Product Design
Duration | 2020-2021
The Integrative Design Program
The Integrative Design Masters program engages students from a variety of backgrounds (artistic, technical, engineering, and buisness) to take on meaningful leadership roles on creative developement teams. It builds on participants' skills in the theories, methods, and processes of design and their application in the delivery of everything from products to services.
Principles of Design
Discovery and exploration of ways to communicate specific abstract ideas, motions, and feelings using only design's fundamental shapes and forms. Materials limited to foam core, bristol paper, and wire.
Hand Drawings
Hand drawings and renderings were used to communicate product concepts, and communicate form, sequence, color, and materiality. Visual placement of objects was studied to achieve optimum communication of function and strategy. Materials used include: Micron pen, letter paper, Prismacolor markers and pencils, and Gelly Roll pens.
3D Modeling
Highly focused on product design, with specific user groups in mind, the 3D modeling effort combined physical sketching, using clay, cardboard, and other materials, with digital 3D modeling using: Slicer and Fusion. The products developed were all high-touch in nature ranging from drinking glasses to a dagger handle to flexible playground equipement adapted to the human experience.
Kintsugi
Concept
This project developled concepts for the branding of a hypothetical interactive experience called Kintsugi. Named after the traditional Japanese process (see reference image) for mending broken pottery and highlighting the repaired joints with powdered gold, the video game would lead a user coping with depression through a healing process in which the repaired seams become the focus.
Logo
The collectible object in the experience was a piece of crystalline gold: each successful discovery would be marked by the acquisition of an additional crystal. Many developemental sketches were carried out in the process of final logo design.
Poster
Like any product, Kintsugi would need successful branding. These sketch studies and final posters reflect certain scenes or objects that one would encounter such as: the gold crystal, the map of the experience, and the healing of the user's broken hands.
