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Europe Travel Course-Prototyping Shoe

February 3, 2016 by Whitney Bai

      Jan 3-29, 2016 I went for the most fruitful and unforgettable trip across Europe. With a group of talented designers with various background, I visited fashion studios, concept stores, automotive factories, beer tours, local market, leather finish company and shoe design school. Here is a peek of what this trip looks like: Being in a new environment making me motivated to sketch more,  photography more and keep all my senses heightened at all time. I became an […]

Categories: ID Projects, Softgoods, Whitney's Notes

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Design for Discourse—Leather Source Awareness

November 1, 2014 by Whitney Bai

  * Posts under ‘Whitney’s Notes’ are for me to organize my notes from conference, my research over special topics and my random work inspired by random things. Please check reference list to find the original content.*  Posters  I made for leather awareness. Where is leather from, industrially? Most popular voice: The global market for beef, and hence hides for leather production, is finely balanced. The supply is clearly based on the demand for beef, rather than the needs of the leather sector. […]

Categories: Softgoods, Whitney's Notes • Tags: 3D printed, chrome tanned, faux leather, leather, meat industry, note, vegetable tanned

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Design for Discourse—Inequality For All

November 1, 2014 by Whitney Bai

Photographed by Whitney Bai. Providence RI, Oct 2014.

Categories: Whitney's Notes • Tags: born poor, chanel, education, equalizer, forever21, grow food not lawns, inequality, ipad, job creators, middle class, new arrival, on sale, poor, rich, sale, sketch, watercolor, wealth gap

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Whitney’s Notes: Traditional Leatherwork of the Indigenous Peoples of North America

November 1, 2014 by Whitney Bai

* Posts under ‘Whitney’s Notes’ are for me to organize my notes from conference, my research over special topics and my random work inspired by random things. Please check reference list to find the original content.*  Inuit’s male outfit, 1914-1916 Inuit-Yupik Northern Caribou skin, beads, caribou fore teeth, female inner parka, 1930’s Two of many things I love about leather: 1. it is an organic material—it came with unique natural look and reacts to its environment and its users and changes over time, […]

Categories: Softgoods, Whitney's Notes • Tags: bone, craft, history, Indigenous, inuit, leather, leather craft, leather work, north america, tool

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Discursive Design—How to make the two parties in congress work better with each other.

September 30, 2014 by Whitney Bai

Categories: Whitney's Notes • Tags: congress, discursive design, expedite system, party, political ping pong, poster

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Design for Discourse–How to prevent dogs and cats from fighting

September 18, 2014 by Whitney Bai

  This semester I entered my junior year of industrial design, which means more special topics and advanced studios so I can further figure out my place as an industrial designer in this world. One of the special topic course I got (based on our lottery course selecting system) is Design for Discourse. I have never heard of it and after the first two weeks I’m still very confused in terms of the deliverables. Our first project is how to […]

Categories: Whitney's Notes • Tags: cat, design, design for discourse, discursive design, dog, fight, fight like dogs and cats, invisible friends, prevent cats and dogs from fighitng, puppy love, the getaway, the high road, trick or treat

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PechaKucha 20*20 for Gerrit Rietveld

March 30, 2014 by Whitney Bai

* Posts under ‘Whitney’s Notes’ are for me to organize my notes from conference, my research over special topics and my random work inspired by random things. Please check reference list to find the original content.*  1.Intro (jog the memory) When I was picking my PechaKucha at the beginning of this semester I did not know most of the topics and I panicked. Fortunately Gerrit Rietveld caught my eyes because I remembered seeing his name and his famous “Red-Blue” chair and Zig-zag chair […]

Categories: Graphics, ID Projects, Sketches, Whitney's Notes • Tags: architect, architecture, design, dutch, gerrit, industrialdesign, musem, netherlands, painter, pechakucha, rietveld, schroder, schroder house, truss, utrecht, van gogh

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