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Welcome Home Stand

December 17, 2015 by Whitney Bai

A special piece of furniture I designed inspired by my own experience. This is a welcome home stand where you can put away the things you don’t need at home into handmade leather bowls, and hang the keys or umbrella on the metal frame. Both leather and metal will document the daily usage and age beautifully.

Categories: ID Projects, Softgoods • Tags: bai, brass, coldrolledsteel, crs, furniture, handmade, home, id, industrialdesign, leather, leatherbowl, stand, welcome, whitney, whitneybai

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Foldable Tech Box

November 20, 2015 by Whitney Bai

Read the article that mentions my design: http://our.risd.edu/post/135340185579/designs-on-organization

Categories: ID Projects, Softgoods • Tags: box, button stud, cord, design, display, essentials, flet, foldable, handmade, id, industrial design, iphone, iStation, kikkerland, leather, organizer, risd, storage, tech, the container store, travel pouch, Whitney Bai

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Pixelated Body

April 10, 2015 by Whitney Bai

Work published in DesignBoom This project is for my ID & Apparel course IN ON AROUND AND BETWEEN, which explore the space and interaction in, on around the body and in between. My project started with the discussion on how technology enlarged our daily vocabulary. Words like pixel and voxel are now taken out of their original context and made their way to other aspects of our lives, like fashion–techno eccentric, is the formal name apparently. I can’t say I […]

Categories: Softgoods • Tags: apparel, button, id, leather, modular, risd, rivets, shoulder piece, transformation, vegetable tanned leather, Whitney Bai

The Lifestyle Bag

March 12, 2015 by Whitney Bai

Work in Progress… I have a bookmark folder in my browser dedicated to my online identity: google circle, facebook, twitter, linkedin…a dozen of them. I noticed a long time ago that my online communities on these websites are quite distinctive from each other—some represents my professional side as a design student, some for family and close friends, and some for public. Of course they are not completely separated. Where I choose to post certain aspect of my life depend on how […]

Categories: ID Projects, Softgoods • Tags: apparel, bag, bag pack, compositional, detachable, handmade, id, industrial design, interchangable, leather, lifestyle, magic, organizer, purse

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Handmade Leather Sleeve For Kindle Paperweight

September 21, 2014 by Whitney Bai

Categories: Freelance, Softgoods • Tags: case, craft, craftsmanship, handmade, id, kindle, kindlepaperweight, leather, leather case, leather pouch, leather sleeve, pouch, sleeve

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Model Making—Foam Core Practice

September 21, 2014 by Whitney Bai

The goal of this project is to make precise model using only foam core and glue based on an orthographic drawing. How to create accurate curve, how to hide glue lines and how to make beautiful edges are the key. p

Categories: Form and forming, ID Projects • Tags: 3D, blades, craft, craftsmanship, cut, cutting mat, foam, foamcore, glue, hobo glue, id, knife, model, modelmaking, paper cement, prototying, prototype, sketch model

Leopard Gecko Carrier

May 2, 2014 by Whitney Bai

Design Goal: a portable tank for leopard gecko owners that allow them to engage in daylong activities while providing proper care for their leopard geckos. Visiting RISD Nature Lab and interview staff member to study the behavior of leopard gecko. Interviewee: Evan Fredriksen—an employee in RISD Natural Lab who is specialized in reptile. Work shift Thursdays 1:00-10:00 Lizard in question: Mowgli, Leopard Gekko/Gecko, also known as the spotted fat-tail gecko. (Eublepharis macularius). Native to desert areas in S. Central Asia […]

Categories: ID Projects, Sketches • Tags: 3D, bai, carrier, crystalball, gecko, id, ideation, industrial design, leopard, lizard, pet, petappreciation, process, risd, showandtell, sketch, whitneybai, whitneyyubai