Wing Wall

Battery Park Development

FuF

Travis Louie

Arc

Dirty Fonts Make It Fun

Playful Type from Chris LaBrooy on Vimeo.

Union Pool Feeding Frenzy

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The Union Pool Bird Feeder

The Union Pool bird feeder is a sheik contemporary spot for the cool birds in Brooklyn to hang out and feast. Based around the idea of a swimming pool and a condo balcony, the Bird Feeder features spots to perch and tweet with friends while providing an accessible food pool to literally dive-in and dine.

The Union Pool features a welded steel frame with an acrylic seed-pool. There are slots in the back of the frame to accommodate hanging. Leather straps allow you to loop the bird feeder around a tree, fence or pole. There is also, an optional mounting post that will allow you to create a free-standing unit in your lawn or patio.

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Media Center

Custom red oak timber-frame media center for private client. Slat-screened cabinet doors and a movable screen to cover TV when not in use.

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Hand Crafted Woodwork

Custom millwork that I recently completed to act as a "printer station." The 13 x 19 sits on top, while the scanner/printer sits on the slide-out tray to use when needed. The bottom drawer is suitable for all kinds of paper supplies and colorful inks. It's made from furniture-grade ply with red oak used for trim and the drawer/tray details.

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Hamilton the Hippo

Enjoy another member from the Busted Safari series. We're making slow and steady progress at bringing the whole crew to you. Keep your eyes bananas.

Justin

Float a Boat

Big Game for Materia

Sit Down

Yep.
Jaime Hayon for Fritz Hansen.

Intriguing Social Exploration

Amazing example of data gathering. Even more impressive example of visualizing that data. Crazy stuff going on.

Letting Imaginations Run Wild

Kickstart the Wedge

Leah and I have been working on the process of designing and promoting the WEDGE iPad stand on Kickstarter!
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Pewter Casting! First Edition

Well folks, it's been a slow and steady progression toward creating pewter castings of the Busted Safari series and now we have (sort of) success! Below we have the exciting results of Avington the Alligator cast in lead-free pewter.

I first attempted this last week without such a favorable outcome. Initially I tried using an oxy-acetylene torch to heat a graphite crucible to melt the pewter. This process just wasn't that efficient (especially if the goal is to pour numerous castings at a time). It wasn't possible to maintain a consistent melt temperature because I was using a cutting torch tip, so I had to keep the torch in my hand and secure the mold and test the temperature. Plus I felt like was wasting a lot of fuel and I'm sure that someone was bound to need the torch because it was a shared resource. Sorry that I didn't throw up any images of that endeavor, but I had my hands full of fire. Also, the castings didn't come out. Mrph.

As you'll see below, I transitioned to using a good 'ol pot and hot plate. You'll have one of these if you live in one of those make-shift-hip apartments here in bklyn cause you just don't have a kitchen. At any rate, the set-up I have is the melting pot, 2-part mold clamped together sitting in a tub of sand. This proved to be a lot more effective, but the castings just didn't turn out the way I intended. The first one didn't fill out entirely (he has no eyes) and they both have heavy sinking where the sprue filled. Also, the surface finish is off due to the mold and the temperature of the metal I think. It's still a work-in-progress, but I'm really excited to have gotten this far with casting the pewter models. Now it's on to more troubleshooting.

Justin

Rocking Horse of Course

Doshi Levien

Sucess: 2 part mold

Good news. We have a successful two-part silicone mold, and it's ripe for hot metal! Everything went smoothly this time around. Well, the positive form was a bit stubborn to come out, so I had to give it the chop. It's all good to go now. I will be moving on to the spectacular pewter casting very soon. Stay tuned.

Justin

Hip Hop Anonymous

Say Hello to Hamilton the Hippopotamus. This is the newest addition to the Busted Safari series. He should be arriving in his 3D printed Hippo form in a couple weeks. I'll be sure to post some images upon his arrival. Until then, I'll be moving forward on the 2nd half of the Avington mold as soon as I get some of that sweet, sweet mold release.

Justin

(re)Mold

Yarr! Here be the 2nd attempt at the 1st half of the Avington mold.

Justin