"Cool" outdoor seating/lighting. Ideal for the pool-side or an outdoor bar,
this bench can be pulled apart for people to find a more engaging position.

What to eat today?

Last night I went to see FOOD, INC with my amigos. It is a shocking and one-sided documentary exposing the darkness of food production for a capitalistic society. I never thought that raising and slaughtering animals was an appealing process to watch, but mass raising and slaughtering.......uck, I am sure glad that I was in a movie theatre so I could close my eyes and smell popcorn not cow excrement and amonia.

I thought that I might become vegetarian after watching the movie; however, they also featured a segment on the monopoly of soybean production and how one seed company is blacklisting and filing suits against certain farmers for not complying exactly to their seed patent. They send out a team of 75 investigators all over the country to make sure that farmers are not keeping seed for the next year and they also have a hotline that farmers to call to report other farmers for violating seed patents. Sounds a little fascist to me. Like I said earlier, the movie was a little one-sided. So now after being frustrated with the whole American food system, I can no longer just peacefully eat my cereal in the morning. I am sure I will be over it in a few weeks.
I think one of the most sad parts of the movie documented a mother who lost her 2 year-old child from eating a hamburger infected with a strain of e-coli bacteria, and now she can not even say a negative thing about meat because of Veggie-liable laws that prevent people from degrading the name cattle farms and slaughter houses even if it is just a personal opinion. Legislation also prevents any photographs to be published of the industrial slaughtering process. I am not exactly sure how the movie is not racked with lawsuits.

Applying infographics to Human Factors

Redesign wheel that proportionally, documents time to task performed.

beauty sketches

How I interpreted travel beauty round 1

chair studio update

Currently I am trying to make the ice cubes more mobile with in the seating a arrangement and create more of a cohesive story about them. I hope to make the trapezoidal forms from molded wax. That will be a trick.

Mood Board

This is my contribution to our groups mood/ image boards for Travel related beauty products.
The goal of this board is to inspire active adventure related beauty products for extreme conditions with functionality being the key form determinate.

Summer time Goals

So its a little late, but now that the quarter has started I feel like I have a better perspective of realistic goals for summer quarter. Here we go!

1. Assert my Opinion: Because group projects are the theme of this quarter, I need to make sure that the rest of my group understands visually and conceptually the ideas in my head.
2. Do not concede- synthesize and cultivate: Going along with the group project theme, I think often when working in a group, one person concedes to another group mate's idea. Perhaps another designers initial idea may be chosen, but this does not mean it can not be further cultivated and brought to another level.
3. Have fun, Breathe, and Win the street salsa competition( haha): While the workload may be almost unmanageable, I need to find time to be human and enjoy the opportunities that I happen to have this summer.

Teaser page and portfolio

You can view my portfolio as well. http://www.daapspace.daap.uc.edu/files/download/meyermg/-LCX1GyQC2lJglmHdQ4_W8a3oKRZ4K0ZC7PN0Oc3EnYoFO8OfSyXOfPcaYb2E6_r
I have a few questions about transparency and color mode. I am trying to fix it, but many of the pages are not as crisp. It seems like when I save as a pdf the document color mode is changing.

Inspiration

Our only planned stop while traveling through Europe was April 25 th to 27th for the Milan Furniture Fair. An unexpected surprise; however, was the Public Design Festival that was taking place near the Superstudio Museum. The festival was called Zona Tortona, I took in a lot from this festival, and mainly that their are millions of chairs out there. If you want to check out the website for the festival and organization....here you go...zonatortona.com

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