Gray Matter Designs

End of Year Banner

Carlos — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:17:38 +0000

Here’s my presentation banner from last year’s design show.

Beautiful bike stand

Carlos — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:13:52 +0000

What a beautiful and elegant bike stand that uses the weight of the bike to pinch the back wheel between the two wooden plates. Very tricky dicky!

Thinnest tap in the world!

Carlos — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:08:02 +0000

According to Yanko, this is the thinnest tap in the world. Thank god for that! If I had a penny for every time I heard, “that tap is too damn thick! Why can’t someone design one that’s thinner!” In any case, something to get you thinking for the Reece design awards which are right around the corner! I’ll be posting my designs shortly…

Skull Chair

Carlos — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:47:20 +0000

The garden chair project is coming along nicely. Today I finally got the chairs to stack and separate from a two-piece mold. Here is a nice example of a skull chair which I came across today. I’ll be posting pics of my design as soon as I get it rendered. Stay tuned!

This totally made my day!

Carlos — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:04:05 +0000

I’m so glad the Tropfest judging panel didn’t pick another overly pretentious or politically correct submission. This is wonderful!

3rd year is here!

Carlos — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:57:34 +0000

I’m now into my 3rd and final year of Product Design. I’m glad to report that it’s mostly self driven projects. I already have a whole bunch of ideas, many of which are bike related. For Dave’s class, we have a short project to design a stackable garden chair. Here is an early shot of my work in progress. It still doesn’t stack and it still doesn’t seperate from a two part mold, but its shape is starting to come to life!

New Toaster Renders

Carlos — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:54:31 +0000

Here are a few renders from the ongoing Sunbeam project.

Design Concepts for the INDEX design challenge

Carlos — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:48:11 +0000

This brief has turned out to be a lot more challenging than I originally anticipated. I have come up with three concepts of which the first two are variations of the same concept. The first two concepts are possible solutions to the lack of resources for education in remote areas of Africa, especially with regard to the eduaction of children from nomadic tribes. Both concepts are made from recycled tractor tyres that allow the whole contraption to be rolled from location to location. The third concept is an attempt to address the problem of soap theft in African schools leading to an elevated level of dysentry among African school children.

Even more toasters…

Carlos — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:35:41 +0000

Weburbanist has just published a collection of funky toaster designs from around the world. Probably a bit too late for most of us to radically change our designs, but interesting nonetheless.

Alessitab

Carlos — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:32:07 +0000

Going back to our project from first year, it seems that Alessi is getting into the highly competitive world of tablet design. The ‘L’ shaped stand has its uses when placed on a flat surface but it doesn’ t do it any favours the moment you want to put it into a bag.