China, like woah

So, dear blog, I went to China for 2 weeks but that was almost a month ago and I haven't told you anything about it.

Well, here are some things I saw in China:



Snake wine, yum! Even though that snake wine is, in fact, partaken of in China, there is still lots of good food to be had. Really, really good food.


"Push your finger into the gears!"

new addition to the Wilderness

I've been wanting to make more plywood animals for a while now, and finally I made a doe. Next I'm going to make a deer with the same body but with antlers that will enter the head in a perpendicular plane. Eventually I might make some of these to sell but at the moment I'm still behind on making Cacti.

Vail lamp

I really, really love seeing an idea come into reality. Well, really, I only love seeing the idea come to life when the idea is one that I think is good. Anyway, here is a lamp I designed for work- from CAD, to finished sample, to photography for the catalog/website its sold on.

my life is composed of weekends

Here are some things that I finished this weekend. I made lots of beads a couple of years ago while I was interning at a bent-plywood furniture manufacturer. I would save boxes and boxes of wood scraps and stay after work to make wooden goods. I first started making my jewelry displays while I was there.

Anyway, here are some necklaces that I put together this weekend:





And I painted more cacti for a custom order:

ORION

My favorite of my new designs for work is ORION. Below are some of my initial sketches, then photos of the actual samples that are being introduced at the Dallas Market Center in just a few days. The cool thing about these fixtures is that the lights rotate up or down, depending on the look/functionality that you want.

Cermics and dinosaurs?

Well, I've been doing lots of things but not telling the blog about any of them.
I finished up another ceramics class and below are my favorite legged items (on a chair I made, of course). I have some fun mugs that I couldn't bare to give away, so I'll post pictures of those soon.


I'm working on some custom colored wooden goods. I'm using a lot of mustard yellow spraypaint. Here is a SAURUS in my very advanced outdoor spraybooth:

I love lamp?

Here are my favorite lamps that I designed that were introduced last month at the High Point Market. These fellows are all "lifestyle contemporary", I'd say. You know, for the modern person who doesn't want their friends to think they are too weird...


QUADRATIC

DECA

PLANAR

The 2-light DECA table lamp is my favorite. But, I do take great pride in the incredibly small boxes that both QUADRATIC lamps fit in. You'll notice that there are some large-ish finials at the connection points of PLANAR... those got revised, but I don't have updated images.