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Googleween – Spaceship fabric structure for DPEM

Posted: October 29, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, DPEM Event Marketing-Tags: Event, fabrication, fabric

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 [...]

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Meat Racks – 2013 SF Chefs Event

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, DPEM Event Marketing-Tags: drawings, exhibit, design

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 [...]

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Perforated Pedestals – Kikkerland – ICFF

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Abunch LLC-Tags: fabrication, icff, exhibit

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 [...]

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Mechanical Cupcake Dispenser for Jet Blue

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Abunch LLC-Tags: mechanisms, exhibit, design

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 [...]

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