DesComm | Tea Kettle

Our latest project in DesComm is to design a tea kettle. The assignment is pretty open, and the point is really to just design an awesome thing.
My inspiration : the olympic torch.

DesComm | Prelim Storyboards

Here are 2 storyboards for my HP project. The first describes current problems with a PC's out of box experience, and the second describes my proposed solutions. Still a decent amount of kinks and details to work out, but this is my start.

Billiards, anyone?

While we were playing pool the other night, Max mentioned how he thought a glass pool table would be tremendous.

That made me think of this Core77 post from a couple of weeks ago. This Aussie designer Craig Nottage made his sweet senior project into a really sweet reality. Check out the link below.

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/materialssavvy_designer_turns_senior_project_into_a_company_12518.asp

Xiao Xiao

You might have seen this before, (I first saw it a long time ago... like when-I had-AOL-dial-up long ago) but Mike's comment about stick figures in his email about the storyboard assignment made me think of it.

Xiao Xiao is a series of stick figure action movies (and a few games) by Chinese animator Zhu Zhiqiang. They are outstanding. Pretty cool what you can do with stick figures. Check out the links below for this and more fun stick figure stuff from StickPage.com.

The Movies/Games - http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/xiaoxiao

More stick stuff - http://www.stickpage.com/

DesComm | USB

Here's my process book for a design communications USB flash drive project. Check it out, leave me some comments.

http://www.daapspace.daap.uc.edu/files/download/messerkc/8CrJmZZ3PJNO_2HZI8OmvH2sCWyeUT0sb8fld6Oyh2A

Memory Sticks.

I came across these while I was looking at flash drives. Actual sticks of memory. 2 gigs too; pretty impressive. One problem I have with them: they retail for $119.99.