Polyp

Contest: Mookum Materialise Wire Challenge 2012 (not submitted).

Polyp is a form inspired by coral and used as cable organizer. Its simple form is plausible to be manufactured by laser sintering process. It simplifies (and manages) six wires into one unification. Wires are clipped in every single “tentacle” on its body.

Karma Drive

Karma drive is a one terabyte flash drive, made from combined titanium and carbon fiber, for rugged and maximum performance. It will turn red as indicator when it is full of data (80% space is used), and stays in blue when space is available (less than 80% is used).

Bulbo and Orion

Contest: Peeters and Pichal Design Challenge 2011.

Soothes the soul, when you know the egg-bulb is eatable. :)

Bulbo -3D printed egg holder-, helps you start the day with best ideas. Extra dried parsley available. :) The idea of Bulbo came from lamp fitting. Instead of fitting a bulb on it, it fits a boiled egg (and could only served perfectly boiled egg). It is made by Poly Amide plastic, with 3D printing process.

Bulbo model was completely done with Rhino, and rendered using V-Ray for Rhino.

If you’d like to have a copy of Bulbo, it is now available at Shapeways: http://www.shapeways.com/model/362786/.

Orion is an experimental design of egg holder with scan feature. It detects whether the egg is good or not. The shape was inspired by alien spaceship, and has a “stethoscope” as an examiner tool for the egg. :)

WayGo

WayGo  was an entry for T-Splines Design Contest 2011: Make the World a Better Place.

Abstract

WayGo Project was started in summer 2007, assessed as test case for product design five during schools. The theme was how to revitalize Sundanese culture in modern world.

Preliminary research indicated about ninety seven percent (97%) children aged seven to twelve had no recognition to Golek either in substance, nor general knowledge.

WayGo was designed as tools for introducing Golek Puppet for children. It was expected, with this tools, they would obtain better understanding about Indonesian local culture.

Keywords: Toys, Revitalization.

Elaboration with Contest

T-Splines 2011 Contest theme was set: “Design for a Better World”. This revitalization project, could be considered as action to conserve historic legacy for next generation.

Design Process

Within design process, strategic steps were set to adjust characteristic, system, and visual appearance. Golek is strongly influenced with its unique semiotics. Every visual aspects have their own meaning. Red color on Cepot’s face (one of Golek famous character), meant aggressive and angry character.

WayGo’s design methods were derived as compromise phase, visual simplification, and trend fusion.

Compromise phase needed to define what visual aspects will be carried over, what systems should be developed, and what semiotics would be taken into new design.

Visual simplification was a phase in reducing visual complexity within traditional Golek Puppet. Main purpose of this simplification was to let children had better understanding, without being too distracted by its visual complexity.

Trend fusion was done by melting current trends with traditional values lied within Golek.

Test Case

Based on research, most popular Golek’s character should be Cepot, for sixty four percent (64%). Gatotkaca came second with twenty two percent (22%).

Within this case, Gatotkaca was developed further, as he represents a hero (which most likely kids would love so much).

He is like Superman in traditional Golek stories.

Compromise phase within this character was done by still representing green color in his face. His heroic character was also being supported by giving him a complete set of weapons, spear with integrated shield and a bazooka-arm full with arsenals.

Visual simplification reduced ornaments in his face. As this would also simplifies production process. Simplification would give children better recognition for this character.

Trend fusion by joining kids trend now who really love heroic character. As well as Gatotkaca, weapon additions and ability to be played exactly as Golek Puppet were implementation of this tools.

Product Innovations

Some innovations within these product could be described as:

1. Could be operated as action figure, golek puppet, and diorama ;
2. Made from safe colored Polypropylene ;
3. Could be re-assembled easily, with ball-joints for free and better movements ;
4. Used as educational toys, as well as interactive culture media.

Modeling with T-Splines

Modeling was done in Rhino with T-Splines for Rhino 3.0 Plug-In.

Started with caging to define overall dimension, and created solid quad-ball primitive (new addition in 3.0 version) for body, hip, legs, and arms.

Further details were added by manipulating faces, edges, and verts, until desired shapes achieved.

After T-Splines modeling steps finished, next detailing steps were done in Rhinoceros with its native commands like project, split, surface offsetting, and surface blending.

At the end of modeling phase, files were split into two different types. First file was intended for CAD/CAM purpose, with strict geometry validation. Second file was intended for visualization-related purpose. Some surfaces were extracted to have various colors applied. As final product, visual appearance could be achieved by paintings or stickers.

CAD data for machining must pass validation process for geometries. Bad object and naked edges should be cleared, in order to make the data printable or machine able.

Further Direction

WayGo project could be widely developed, and not only ends as just a product. Games apps, and other visual campaigns could also be made as a supportive actions for culture revitalization purpose.

Diavolo: The Devil’s Chair

“Experimental approach with organic software for industrial design”

Judges Quote:

“This was an example of design taking advantage of the capabilities of T-Splines without the designer succumbing of letting TS dictate the design. A good, humorous, and completely plausible design.”

In summer 2010, T-Splines held a contest for their users with theme “Model Your Organic Design in CAD.” I had two entries for the competition. First is the Diavolo Chair, and second is Meriva Office Chair.

T-Splines held this contest to gather the community, and to see how advance the software really is.

Started with a very rough idea to design a unique chair. I sketched Diavolo Chair on a piece of paper, and strictly model them in Rhino. From the first time, I know that it is almost an impossible job to finish this design entirely with Rhino.

Of course, Rhino has a lot of surfacing commands like loft, patch, sweep 1 and 2, and blend, but this surface is so complicated, and it could take weeks to complete. And with some rhino disadvantages of surface joining, I could trap into many naked edges, so the models would not be watertight to be printed in 3D.

So, I simply pick T-Splines to make the basic surface, and mix it with Rhino for some geometric shape (of the legs and glides).

Back to the idea of the chair, devil is a representation of an “evil, bad, or anything coincide with darkness, fear, cruelty, and a lot of other nasty things. And horns are just a great semantic that precisely represent a visual meanings of a devil.

The idea is to design something that quite aesthetic, hence represent some critics in other side.  This design said that we have something bad lies within our self. So, we deserve to sit in this “devil chair”, regardless what job we have. Politicians, lawyers, designers, architects, we are a devil in some way.

Representing fun image in this design, bright and fancy colors are chosen. Basically there colors will be divided based on components. The horn, evil laugh, glide, and tensile fabric should have the same color. Combined with a single main frame color. Joining parts consist of one typed customized bolt.

Materials for the body would be Injected Polypropylene with tubular pipe to connect the seat and back. On the seat, attached high tensile stretch fabric,batyline® to hold the bodyweight.  Legs made of chromed SPCC metal, solid pipe with 12 mm diameter. 

Diavolo® Chair comes in two varies: the quad base legs (with self height adjustment), and the standard legs (look for the glides).

The chair can be functioned as a multipurpose one. Whether in a conference room, café, office, dining, or other space.  Horns can be used to hang jackets, or purse.

Several weeks after the judging, ZCorp decide to print one of the chair.

Full article available in this link.

Geonic

Geonic is not a product, it is a system of coffee table.

1. Simple system, consist of one top table and two customized legs.
2. Simple construction, used of an advanced joint, to connect top table and legs.
3. Legs are made by hand-crafted solid wood, and top table is made from honeycomb core, layered with thin fiberboard, covered with veneer.
4. Offers an unlimited options for market, by providing as many options as possible. Geonic explores user’s creativity, to develop their own design.
5. Optimal solution for every interior ambient. Just match Geonic with any interior concept, by simply changes the legs, or the veneer options.
6. Plug and play accessories, offers new function for table. Power socket and decorative algues, can be added to your table freely.
7. Well, it’s up to you.

Geonic was an entry for IFDC Award 2010, held by American Export Hardwood Council for Indonesia.

Bev

Bev was an sentry for Materialise Design Challenge 2010.

Bev-Lamp uses honeycomb structure, wrapped in a cylindrical form.

This was my first case on simple morphogenesis, using a simple “flow along surface” technique.

The idea of the lamp, as this will be printed in 3D would be taking advantage from the process itself: no limitations of shape. Bev-Lamp has a “hollow-core” which allows the thin wires to reach the LED to transmit electricity.

Since this lamp would not be prototyped, I decide to “simulate” the lighting effect with V-Ray for Rhino and Photoshop. Original render was done by V-Ray, and for the lights effect, I simply used lens-flares effect to turn on the lights.

BevLamp submitted as an entry for i-Materialise Design Challenge for Rhinoceros users worldwide.

Kitchen Visualization

In Summer 2010, ASGVis -makers of V-Ray for Rhino and V-Ray for Sketch Up- held a free-themed render contest.

Inspired by one of IKEA’s kitchen scene, I modeled every detail geometries in Rhino. It took almost four rigorous hours to complete the render, with minimum post-process.

This scene left a warm and homey ambient, with open backyard.