Born out of frustration with the basic home and office power strips, this concept design is aimed at making a utility object more user friendly and functional. Rather than a clunky device that's tough to install, wiggles around, and takes up a ton of space, I wanted something elegant and multi-functional. Getting power to our numerous devices should be as simple as asking Alexa or the Google Home. Borrowing ideas from both, this device is frustration free and while charging your devices can play music and light up This wall mounted power strip integrates USB and NEMA outlet ports with a bluetooth speaker and Alexa compatible voice activation. Clip and unclip the whole unit from the wall on a "French cleat" that fixes to the wall and swivel the ball bearing cord to get an elecrical extension anywhere around the house.

A more resolved sketch emerging from countless design iterations.

Preliminary sketches of additional designs.

The initial design went through many iterations before finally emerging in a kind of ovoid shape with outlets on the side and LED portion on the top.

Materials: Aluminum Casing, LIFX LED, Copper, USB ports, NEMA-5-15R Outlets, 316L Stainless Steel

THE LAST FERAL SNAKE

Vina Enoteca

Artwork pieces just emerged from the kiln

Based on project exhibition I had at San Francisco's art and design space, Minnesota Street Project that focused I created this permanent interior installation for Vina Enoteca, an Italian restaurant in Palo Alto. Collaborating with the owners and chefs of the restaurant I wanted to create a work the engaged the tonality of the space while complementing the forms, colors, and textures of the food that emerges from its kitchen.

Materials: The work is a wall of custom made ceramic slabs held up by a stainless steel armature, 12' across and 10' high to give a distinctive infusion of color and texture to the central dining area.

Pre-visualization RFP designs done with Rhino 3D and OctaneRender.

Rhino 3D Model and Octane Render Site Model with Artwork

Photography and Digitization

After completing graduate school at Mills College, I was hired on as a digitizing technician by the art museum to photograph, edit, and maintain a growing digital database of the over 10,000 piece collection. Documenting the work is part of a global push to make the world's art collections privately accessible to curators around the world. Having never been documented before, it was an amazing honor and thrill to open and digitize box after box of undocumented treasures from the collection. Highest among those were the Japanese ceramics collection, a ceramic plate by Picasso and an amazing set of drawings by Georgia O'keefe and Arnoldo Pomodoro. Additionally, before I left MCAM, I wrote and graphically illustrated a technical manual on 'best practices' museum staff and future digitizers.

Cribbage Board

Gaming and cribbage is a right of passage in my family. I've always found traditional cribbage boards convoluted as you make your way through the switchbacks up and down the board so I created a like an athletic track to allow players to always moving forward. This project was done as part of a design competition for educational games.

Materials: Sustainable bamboo laminate CNC milled with additional storage peg holes for either a 2 or 3 person game.

Model Rhino 3D and Octane Render Cinema 4D

Setting tool paths for ShopBot using RhinoCam

NETFLIX HQ: OCCAM'S RAZOR

Netflix altered an entire industry by changing the way people connect with digital media. This painting done for their head quarters, depicts a break from linear thinking represented by fractured orange and white lines. The crystalline, blue and green organic forms behind that show the responsive, algorithmic connections Netflix used to pioneer a new way delivering media. The title of the painting, "Occam's Razor" is pulled from a philosophy terms that ponders multiple was of looking at the same thing to get different results; in this case, signifying a shift in thinking when it comes to connecting people to entertainment. Netflix chose a different way to connect an audience to entertainment.

Materials: Acrylic Paint on Linen

DOODLES

As a designer, I'm constantly finding things in my surrounding that I'd like to improve. I call these doodles. Some doodles never see the light of day, some emerge into final products that I use or sell.

Wall-Mount Bedside Computer Holders

For example, I am often in bed late at night working on my laptop. When I'm done, where do I put my computer? On the bed with me? Drives my significant other crazy. On my overly crowded night stand? ...With books and full water glasses? I don't think so. To solve that I'm ruminating on economizing designing from bed (and have a reason for my guilty pleasure, woodworking) I designed and built wall-mount bedside computer holders.

AT-AT Walker Side Tables

3D Exploded Axon View Rendered with Octane Cinema 4D

Table design based on the Japanese, Shinto Torii Gate.

CERAMICS+

3D Rhino Model Rendered With Octane Cinema 4D

Porcelain, Metallic Glaze, and Chromed Steel

Stoneware Ceramics Treated With Sodium Silicate for Crackle Pattern

Stoneware Bowl With Wooden Lathe Turned Chopsticks

ANEMONE: FUTURE CITIES LAB

Known as“the daughter of the wind” in Greek, Anemone is a permanent public artwork installed in Albany CA. Inspired by California's native Anemone plant.

My role was to create 3D fabrication designs, accurate fabrication sheets, design construction materials and methods and as a certified welder, fabricate the structures. I welded the armature structures and assisted the team in milling out the Corian panels used for the flower petals. I also worked with crane operators on site to physically install the work in Albany.

Materials: Steel and Corian Panels

INSTALLING THE FINAL WORK: MYSELF (left) — INSTALLING THE FINAL WORK: MYSELF (left)

LIGHT CLOUD: FUTURE CITIES LAB

Scheduled for construction in 2019.

Lightcloud translate sounds from the highway underpass into 9 unique formations of dynamically patterned light. Slowly changing ambient effects are triggered by the sound of passing people, cyclists and cars from the two neighborhoods and I-880 above. Lightcloud animates the underpass with variable intensities of computer-controlled LED illumination and creates a meditative, interactive and playful experience for pedestrians.

Materials: Carbon Fiber, Steel, LEDs

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