Tag: Cai Board

  • three stacked copies of the "Designing with Waste: open source collaboration in experimental design" hardcover book

    Criteria for Planet-Centric Design, MDes Thesis pt 4

    The formal written part of thesis projects at the UIC School of Design is a thesis documentation book. See excerpts from my documentation book, including criteria for planet-centric design, as well as my full bibliography below. This is the fourth part of my Master of Design thesis project. If you have not already, go see…

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    Designing With Waste, MDes Thesis pt 3

    DesigningWithWaste.com grew out of frustrations with seeing awesome experimental design projects never go beyond a classroom because of a lack of infrastructure. Making matters worse, students often have to reinvent the wheel when they have an experimental design project since the industrial design community lacks a collaborative hub where people can improve upon each others’…

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    Pasta Water for Designers, MDes Thesis pt 2

    In order to help get the Cai Modeling Materials out into the world so that students and professionals can work more sustainably, I wrote a 48 page book that teaches people how to make the materials while encouraging them to experiment with the recipes.

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  • white models on a white background, from left to right: speaker, drawer pull, speaker, lamp, chess piece, speaker, door handle

    The Cai Modeling Materials, MDes Thesis pt. 1

    For my industrial design masters thesis at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I developed plastic-free modeling materials. Cai Board can serve as a replacement for extruded polystyrene foam. Cai Clay is an air-drying clay that is an alternative to plastic-based clays.

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  • Gif of Mari standing then kneeling with a fist pumping into the air in front of her panels

    A Haptic Blank

    With the texture of water as inspiration, I created acoustic panels that not only absorb sound, but play sound when touched. 

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