lESSON LEARNED

A designer should never be perfect, and I am far from it. I have made numerous mistakes, more than I can count on my hands. It is these mistakes that have made me the designer I am, the reflector I am, they have formed who I am. Every mess up, every fail has led me to learn more about the craft, and who I am. I embrace failure, because every time there's something new to start, I start with the new things I learned from the last experience.

VBL Project

This is my North Face pen project. While the VBL replication felt accurate. The execution of said was furthest from polished. The paint wasn't even/ precise, I didn't let it set in time, and the tolerances of the fit pieces weren't accurate. The photography here was also not admirable.

Field flare

The assignment was to create a light that was multi-purpose. The problem I observed was that in a lot of rural areas, young athletes could not play after sunset. I set out to make a source of light so that they could. On one of the final iterations. I tried to apply adhesive from a welded pole to the clamp of the light. I learned to create tight fit holes in the pole to

RIGID Sponsor

This past semester, our studio was paired with RIDGID to try and innovate on the existing wet/ dry vacuum. It required looking into existing costumer problems, pain points, and integrating solutions into the existing models.

olymp-kicks

Ancient Greece based hiking scandals. The goal was simplicity- trying to use felt and