Survival Vest Prototype

Here is a great project I completed along with 2 other classmates for our Product Design class. We had 2 weeks to design and create a prototype of a survival kit.

PD370 Project 2 Survival Kit

Completed Lights! All three of them!

Here are the completed lamps I worked on my Winter 2010 term. I used compact fluorescence in all my lights. I had a blast working in the shop. I hope you enjoy my designs.

Bentwood Lamp

Table Lamp

Laser Cut Paper Lamp

Wall Lamp

Metal Lamp (welding and bending)

Hanging Lamp

Chase Kahmann

PD410

Adding to my visual library

In my Design Process class we were assigned to take a walk and capture images to help store them into our visual library. Our visual library is essential to expanding our creative thoughts. Designers through out history have designed objects that originated from a seen image. "The famous photographer Alfred Stieglits found most of his images within 60 yards of his home" (pd370 assignment sheet). My group partner Damien Menard and I captured these images.

PD370

My favorite chair to this date!

I have had my eye on this chair for a long time. The Karlstad swivel chair with accompanying footstool is an IKEA chair modeled after the infamous Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair. It comes in two colors; orange and black (shown below). At 6'2" I find this chair to be extremely comfortable and relaxing. It is made of high-resilient polyurethane foam providing the seat cushion. The chair costs $400 so I won't be purchasing it anytime soon however it is definitely on my wish list. In a few years when I graduate I will definitely be purchasing this chair. Donations anyone?

Designer: Henrik Preutz

PD370

Catching up with the term

In my Product Design: Objects and Impacts class we had the opportunity to take some tours of local manufacturing factories in the Eugene area. We were given detailed tours of three very different factories; Henry Manufacturing, Superior Steel Fabrication, and PakTech.

Henry Manufacturing, Inc.

Eugene, Oregon

This manufacturing company does it all from Aluminum Die Casting, Tool & Die, Aluminum & Steel Fabrication, CNC machining, and Irrigation Pipe Pressing. They got their start in Irrigation Pipe Pressing and it has since become their specialty.

Bars of aluminum to the right used to create the irrigation fittings on the table. The bars are melted and poured into a machine which casts the products.

Our teacher Kiersten Muenchinger providing us with explanations of each casting mold, some of which were very intricate and highly complex.

Superior Steel Fabrication

Eugene, OR

Superior Steel is a state of the art facility with numerous machines used to bend, punch, cut, and weld steel. The facility also has a powder coating center used to efficiently finish the products in-house.

An endless supply of punching bars.

PakTech

Eugene, OR

PakTech is a company that produces the handles we see everyday. You have most likely used one of their products if you have ever purchased milk, orange juice, or ketchup from Costco. PakTech is the leading handle producing company in America located down the street of the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR.

Thank you for reading. Chase.

Wood Lamp

Here are some images of my wood lamp. I have stained and glued the two pieces together.

Single Stain, I might apply another layer later.

More to come later. Thank You for viewing.

Today I successfully cut the paper lamp with the laser cutter. Pictures to come later.

Progress on wood lamp.

I had to seal the wood together with separate pieces of wood in varying sizes.

Clamped in place to assure a tight fit.

Paper Lighting Project

We were assigned a new lighting project in my product design 410 class. We have an objective to design and build a lamp (hanging/wall/desk) out of a 3x3 foot sheet of paper. With this assignment we had to do some research on lighting.

Ingo Maurer (suspension lamp)- I love the simplicity of this lamp and the ambient lighting it can create. I would love to work on a project like this however I find it wouldn't have the same affect in the use of a 3x3 foot piece of paper.

Simply awesome.

Han Koning, stretched plastic

I want to experiment with making my own paper and possibly drying it in organic forms so I can achieve the same affect.

Boadesign.

Yu Jordy Fu

This is amazing. I have access to a laser cutter where I can easily achieve such forms and cuts like this. I originally didn't want to mess with a lamp like this but I recently found that it could be extremely fun trying to create something like this that I could flat pack and easily construct with no instruction.