UI/UX Design – MyStuff app Storyboard and Wireframe
I drew this storyboard and wireframe as part of a group project to help develop a design for an app which helps users keep track of all of their stuff and perform useful tasks, like keeping records for insurance reasons, looking up users manuals, and finding maintenance supplies. Storyboard: Wireframes:
Read more »UI/UX Design – Foodfriend App
I have been working on more UI/UX design projects, including “Foodfriend” – a meal sharing mobile app. I started with some research, talking with target user groups about their needs – it really helped me to focus the project! Storyboards were drawn for a user interface design project for a Coursera course, where I tried [...]
Read more »UI/UX Design – iPhone Daredevil
I’ve been working on more UI/UX designs lately – including this one for an app that lets people test the limits of their iPhones – by gauging the maximum deceleration numbers that users can achieve. (I know… it would result in lots of broken phones, but it was a fun idea for an exercise.)
Read more »The Heart, She Holler – Branding Iron, Typewriter Puppet, etc.
Glowing Branding Iron I also made this branding iron (and a larger pile of artificial coals.) The branding iron was made by using a very powerful flashlight as the handle to light a heat-formed flourescent plastic iron. Artificial Glowing Embers Figuring out how to make artificially glowing coals and a branding iron was tricky, but [...]
Read more »The Heart, She Holler – David Cross ate my hand
Edible cold-cut hand I made lots of body parts of all sorts for the second season of The Heart, She Holler, but the biggest challenge was making an edible hand that David Cross’s character needed to run through a deli-slicer – and then eat the slices. I started by fashioning a plastic cap that would [...]
Read more »The Heart, She Holler – Tumor Time!
Cigarette-smoking Tumor One of the most fun props I've ever made was a basketball-sized tumor that needed to smoke a cigarette while on camera - making the end of the cigarette ember glow red and then puff out a plume of smoke. I did this by first getting an old basketball and using some fittings [...]
Read more »The Heart, She Holler – Blood-n-Guts
Exploding Pies It seems like the second season at The Heart, She Holler involved lots of blood and guts. Gallons and gallons of blood and heaping armloads of guts. I worked with Courtland Premo when we were tasked with making pies erupt with blood and guts, eventually settling on pressurized tanks that forced fake blood [...]
Read more »Googleween – Spaceship fabric structure for DPEM
DPEM in San Francisco hired me to design and build this 30' fabric structure for a Halloween party that went on last week at Google. The Flying saucer was required as a location for an space-alien-themed "haunted house." Sketches I started with some sketches to make sure that DPEM and I were on the [...]
Read more »Sesame Street – Signs for Guests
Part of our job in the Graphics Department at Sesame Street was fashioning some dressing room door signs whenever a celebrity guest would stop by - Pete Ortiz and I would take turns drawing the signs (or call dibs if someone we liked a lot was going to be on the show!) Here is a [...]
Read more »Art Supplies – Sesame Street Season 43
One of the main concentrations of this past season at Sesame Street was Art, so I had quite a bit of art supplies to create! Grouchy Art Supplies Oscar the Grouch wanted to paint himself a big gloppy painting, so I made some fake paint squeeze bottles for Oscar and the other puppets - [...]
Read more »Museum Camp – Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
This July 10th-12th I took part in the "Museum Camp" event at the Santa Cruz MAH. This was an event where about a dozen teams of museum professionals teamed up to create an exhibit around a seldom-displayed object in the museum's collection - all over the course of three days. I was Teamed up with [...]
Read more »Meat Racks – 2013 SF Chefs Event
I designed and built a set of three racks to hold various meats for the 2013 SF Chefs event - everything from deer to fish. I designed these with some nice artificial grass on the bases so that they wouldn't be unsightly pools of meat juice. Also, I learned that no stores in the Bay [...]
Read more »I got nominated for an Emmy!
This year, I was nominated for an Emmy along with the rest of our Art Department team at Sesame Street (Bob Phillips, Pete Ortiz, Keith Olsen & Rickey Boyd) for an "Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction / Set Decoration / Scenic Design" Emmy. I got to bring my dad along to the awards ceremony and [...]
Read more »False-Bottomed Wheelchair – Inside Amy Schumer
I modified a wheelchair for a skit on Amy Schumer’s show. The actress needed to fit her legs into a box below the seat and have false skinny legs hinged onto her lap. The box below the seat is made from painted plywood and padding, and the legs are latex-skinned foam with “bones” made from [...]
Read more »Playground concept sketches – Frolic Playspace
Frolic in Brooklyn, NY. asked me to sketch out some quick ideas for a redesign that they were considering - here are a few of my super-fast ideas.
Read more »Perforated Pedestals – Kikkerland – ICFF
For this year's ICFF show, I made some new pedestals for Kikkerland so that they could be used with the long lighted counters that I had built the previous year. It was an interesting challenge to plan my cuts so that all of the perforated holes in the masonite surface would align on all of [...]
Read more »Mechanical Cupcake Dispenser for Jet Blue
I was called in to make a mechanized cupcake dispenser over a weekend for Jet Blue, to be set up in their JFK terminal. This was a challenging project because I needed to design a mechanism that would feed out the small plastic balls without accidentally crushing them. Also, the cupcake was not centered in [...]
Read more »Valentine Card – 2013
I made another Valentine in collaboration with Mirella Toncheva this year - it was so nice to have an excuse to bust out the pipe cleaners to make some arms!
Read more »Live Bonnaroo Intro – Weird Al
I was asked to help out with sets/props for a live concert introduction with Weird Al. ...even though the team had just finished a very grueling shoot, there's no way we would have missed this chance! It was fun to work on a project that was happening live, doing things like operating the number counter [...]
Read more »Padded Columns for L’Oréal
I made these padded columns for a L'Oréal event so that they would fit around existing columns at the event site. Jessie Voris and I worked together on the upholstery - there were 200 buttons to sew!
Read more »- UI/UX/Product Design
- Museum/Exhibit Design
- Propmaking
- Sesame Street
- Silent Library
- PBS – Hooper Interstitials
- Blue's Room
- Cube Fabulous
- Inside Amy Schumer
- Whitest Kids U'Know
- Storyforia
- Rob Thomas – "Someday"
- Hamish and Andy
- Godzilla puppet
- J. Viewz – Come Back Down
- Snow Cat
- Paul Taylor Dance Company
- Miscellaneous Props
- Family Circus
- Project Accessory
- The Heart She Holler
- Furniture Design
- Illustration
- Comics
- Animation