Will Krause - Product Designer for playful and educational experiences

Yearly Archives: 2009

Silent Library – Dizzy Machine

Posted: November 4, 2009-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, Silent Library-Tags: Props, willkrause, silent library

This machine was made out of a giant turntable with a truck hub inside, and some bike parts. All of the smooth bearings make it pretty easy to turn fast enough to make a contestant barf. Becky Holmes painted the machine with some pretty amazing paints and made the whole thing look like it was [...]

Silent Library – Wedgie Machine

Posted: October 26, 2009-Likes: 1-Comments: 1-Categories: Propmaking, Silent Library

I built this machine starting with a crane that I'd built for a different challenge. A pulley was added in the place of the crane's arm at the top of the machine. A rocking and platform was fastened to the base of the machine (made out of some bicycle hubs and gears, and a home-made [...]

Whitest Kids U’Know – Great Wall of China puppet

Posted: October 7, 2009-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, Whitest Kids U'Know-Tags: puppet, great wall of china, Props

I went to Chinatown and picked up some pyjamas from a bargain rack to get some fabric for this puppet. The head is made from foam and cardboard (with googly eyes) and the mouth is opened and closed with a piece of clotheshanger wire.

Whitest Kids U’Know – World Trade Center puppets

Posted: September 29, 2009-Likes: 0-Comments: 1-Categories: Propmaking, Whitest Kids U'Know-Tags: foam, wtc, world trade center

With googly eyes.

ASIFA-East – Award Certificate

Posted: April 25, 2009-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: ASIFA Award Certificate, Illustration-Tags: Animation, certificate, asifa

ASIFA-East had been using the same design for their award certificate for almost 40 years, so I volunteered to produce some new certificates for their 40th anniversary. The red ink was printed on by letterpress using tiny bits of lead type and big wood block numerals. The yellow part was silkscreened onto the paper, and [...]

Mystery Closet

Posted: March 2, 2009-Likes: 0-Comments: 1-Categories: Comics, Mystery Closet-Tags: willkrause, drawings, Comics

This is a true story about what I found in a walled-off closet inside my bedroom when I lived at 57 Kent Avenue. I started drawing the panels on big sheets of paper, cutting out the good ones and keeping them in an envelope. I liked the little booklet format since it works well to [...]