Original Design Concept by Benjamin Denzinger All Rights Reserved (Company Branding Used for Example Purpose Only):
• Concept is for a modular camping bowl system consisting of a flexible bowl, rigid stand, and multi-utensil.
• Multi tool utensil consists of a spork head with a serrated edge for cutting.
• All of the parts are compactly housed into the stand for lightweight and space saving transportation.
• Flexible bowl weaves through the utensil storage area to achieve this.
Being a fan of electronic music, Ghostly International is a name that I am familiar with. One of the Ghostly founders Matthew Dear, as well as other Ghostly artists, are well known for their smooth beats and melodic melodies. Several years ago, Ghostly did a successful collaboration with Adult Swim by releasing the Ghostly Swim album.
In addition to producing polished sounds, Ghostly is dabbling in art and design with the Ghostly Store. This online design center features Dieter Rams style office accessories, audio equipment, and limited addition art prints.
The item in the store that stands out the most is the Inspiration Pad. This comes to us from Belgium Designer Marc Thomasset. The Inspiration pad re-imagines the age old sketch pad notebook by offering a variety of angles, curves, and perspective lines. I had a studio professor in design school that would start a product sketch by laying down a series of random lines and arcs. He would then begin to sculpt the form of a product out of the jumble.
The Inspiration Pad is an excellent tool for laying down the foundation of inspired sketches.
Take a look at the other well designed products and the limited art prints in the Ghostly Store.
I recently took a class at the Art Center College of Design's night program as a continuing education course. The course was titled Design Process and was taught by Stan Kong. Coming from the more technical based ID program at Georgia Tech, it was beneficial to learn a little about Art Center's approach to Industrial Design education.
During the class, I designed a travel bag for DJs and they published my sketches for it in their latest catalog.
I'd like to thank Stan Kong for recommending the sketches to be publishing.