I presented tana 3 rings that I designed and 3d printed in rose gold, gold and white gold when I asked her to build our life together. She choses to wear different ring depending on her mood and style every day. After few years, I presented her a fourth ring 3d printed in platinum.
The case is CNC machined in stainless steel and mirror polished.
A superior music experience is one of the primary goals I've optimized for in my habitat. Over the years, I've assembled and refined a stereo system. With time, the hardware became complex and cluttered. When listening to music, I desired better organization and aesthetics.
I'd been thinking about this for quite some time. I had an idea of the kind of enclosure that would fit my speakers and furniture (current and future). I'd take photos anytime I ran into real-life objects that resembled my idea, and that inspired me.
Once I was confident enough about the direction, I purchased a few speaker grille cloths as that and wood were my primary elements. The speaker grille cloth and wood have to work together.
Here are some photos of building the music case. I believe it took about two months to complete.
Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.” — Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I recently moved into a newly built modern apartment in San Francisco. Since the last 3 years, I have highly customized the living room space for primarily experiencing music and have had only a couch, speakers and mood lighting. I decided to design and build a hardwood coffee table.
No one will likely ever notice many of the details in this coffee table. But these details are where I find a lot of satisfaction and joy. Creations with such details often emerge from a set of values of the creator. To let the object itself reveal those values is the success of the creator. And this is my attempt to do just that.
Coffee table in use! Listening Anjunadeep 09 album.
Among all classes offered at the D school, Advanced product design (ME312) by Bill Burnett appealed to me the most. It was most closest to the blend of industrial design and mechanical engineering. I'm grateful that he let me take this class. I was the odd and the student from the aero-astro program. I met some amazing people who went on to become great designers.
Project: Sketch shapes that exhibit opposite emotions.
Some photos documenting Brian & mine time building Ardulab. It was a cubesat form factor research lab for conducing science experiments aboard the International Space Station.
