Home Again: Part One

As promised, I'm going to be posting an eclectic selection of random trinkets as I uncover them in my mess of a closet. I may eventually include more than one in a post, but for now I'll just start slow.

This may be the single greatest tool for adventuring the the world has ever seen. This is important, because I can't tell you how many hours I spent exploring the woods south of my neighborhood with my friends back in elementary school. Every good adventurer knows that it's essential to have the right tools, and this thing had them all. Magnifying glass, compass, signal mirror, backup magnifying glass, and it even opened up into a pair of adjustable-focus binoculars. All this in a high-quality rugged plastic enclosure.
It took a little bit of searching because there's no branding on the product itself, but eventually I found the source. Apparently it's called the Optic Wonder(awesome!), and it's made by an Italian company called Navir. I guarantee you will want your kids to have one of these some day. It will be absolutely essential to their survival in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the future.

Optic Wonder

Home Again

Not having been able to obtain a co-op this quarter, I find myself back home in good old Neenah, WI. The weather is great and I am actually doing some real industrial design work for my parents' new start-up design business but I can't help feeling incredibly disappointed in myself. I realize that the economy is bad and that we're competing against every other school in the country for summer jobs, but at the same time I'm a better designer than ever before and I've never felt better about my portfolio of work. I suppose at least part of the problem was me being too picky about where I apply this time around, so I can't get too worked up about this whole thing. All there is to do is get better and try harder next time.

It's not all depressing though. I've never been home for more than a week or so at a time in the past 3 years and I've never been able to just sit around and bask in the nostalgia of this place. There's so much old stuff to go through. Lots of it is just junk, but there are some precious jems hidden about with a ton of memories attached that I'd almost forgotten about. Since I can't exactly blog about my adventures in some new city I've never been to, I'll instead give you guys a taste of my childhood once a week, just to keep this blog going.

Let's make the best of this summer.

Chair Done?

So the chair critique has come and gone, I'm moderately satisfied with the result but there are some definite improvements that I can make to my chair. I did the upholstery about an hour before crit so that area is obviously lacking. Also, the back of the chair isn't bolted to the frame because the holes didn't line up. Other than that I was pretty happy with the result. I'll post some pictures soon but for now, watch a time-lapse video I made of the last couple days in studio.