Band-Aid: Bandage dispensers and packaging system that allow you to access the bandages with one hand. I drew inspiration from office supplies.
Process + Standards book: 6.25 x 8.5 inch, perfect binding, 2009
Nanna: Nanna mobile app was created privately for Roy Disney family in Los Angeles. The app was tailored for the nannies, kids and parents to communicate and exchange alerts and updates. The parents can track categories such as pickup/dropoff, calendar, medication and finding playmates. At the end of the day, nannies can summarize all the entries and send to the parents in a formatted email. As part of my research, I spent 3 days with the family to observe in their natural environment rather than in a formal research setting.
Wunderkind: Wunderkind is a woodshop for toddlers and teens in Los Angeles, California. The space was created based on the idea that "Design is the most powerful tool in the hands of mankind with which man can shape his environment and, by extension, eventually himself" by Victor Papanek.
2010-ongoing
Website for Wunderkind's 8-Week workshop: The internet browser collapses into a smaller size as each week progresses. New content is presented each week.
Senex Art: Art guide and auction for Korean Senior Citizens- The goal of this publication is to provide art guide, auction information and friendship network to the Senior Citizens so that they may have equal opportunities and benefits, and feel like a true part of the culture in which they live. iPad was chosen to be the main platform of the publication.
Prototype for monthly periodical: 10 x 16 inch, tablet app: iPad standard
Playground: If one were to trace some ways that childhood has been changing, you could go back to a single afternoon in October of 1955. The first episode of the Mickey Mouse Club, the Mattel toy company introduced a toy gun called, “Thunder Burp," and just overnight, children's play became focused on the toy- the product itself. Today, transitional playgrounds are disappearing and toys and technology are supplied to the kids. Consequently, the size of children's imaginative space began to shrink.
The book is comprised of two parts- first, I examined the interactive media culture in children's everyday lives and how these changes are reflected in their cognitive and emotional growth. I also researched the important role of transitional games and playground in their social context. In this study, I have attempted to look beyond the assumption that children use new digital media because they are taken in by the marketing of smart new gadgets and the promise of fashion status but I have tried to base my understanding on a belief that children start to use new media because they suit their current play environments better than traditional toys.
Second, archives over 100 scanned images of playgrounds and the works of its architects and designers.
The survey was conducted with a group of 36 respondents aged 8-14 in Stockholm, Sweden.
9 x 11.5 inch, 142 pages, wire binding, 2009
Thoughtless Act: Ongoing documentation of mundane acts people take thoughtlessly.
Examining our everyday interactions, we discover a lot about how we engage, adapt and make sense of our surroundings and these acts hold many secrets to great design solutions. Though, there is no definitive interpretation of the observations here in the images but the value is in looking. It is an invitation to look at our everyday environment and to provoke curiosity and encouraging the observer's own interpretation and speculation about the situation- what qualities have been recognized and exploited, what are the implied human motivations and needs?
5.5 x 8 inch, 42 pages, loop staple, 2009
We alter the purpose or context of things to meet our objects.
Parking Ticket: A fitting form; negative space can suggest how to place objects. We make use of opportunities present in our immediate surroundings.
Cupped Hand: Reflection avoided. Where else might modulating light and surface play to advantage?
Lost to Find: Both the medium and the context from the message. Here, prominent location and unexpected context convey significant information; the same garment placed on a park bench would convey a different meaning as well as perhaps be overlooked.
3 People on the Stairs: Enjoying private content in public and defining personal space. Unspoken rules protect privacy.
Washing Machines: Open lids show what's available. Like the best systems this status signal is evident from distance and invites the appropriate behavior.
Brian Pescador is a photographer based in Palm Springs, California. He mostly deals with youth and wilderness.
2010
Kings of the Canyon: Photographer Brian Pescador's artist series 1 and 2. Loose prints are folded and enclosed in the sleeves.
8 x 8 inch, 2011
Typeface 1.
- Vertical stress
- Round bowl
- Short but strong cross stroke
Display typeface 2.
2010
Charles Bukowski's LA: Sometimes poems can tell us more about street life than any history book. Charles Bukowski tablet app was designed for Esotouric, a bus tour company in Los Angeles. The app and tour bus take in the canonical locations of Bukowski's apartments, favorite liquor store, bars, and poems in Los Angeles. When a tourist reaches each location, the app plays a video footage of Bukowski in the location where the tourist has arrived. It is an alternative way to get to know the city.