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from core77:
To celebrate this year's NYCxDesign, MakerBot hand-picked 17 New York City designers and put them to the test of designing and prototyping an object to improve daily life. The 13 individual designers and 2 design duos were each given a MakerBot Replicator and a few rolls of filament to bring their objects to life in about five weeks. Needless to say, the broad brief yielded extremely diverse results.
I partnered with JungSoo Park to create what we called ‘Primitive Keychains.’
Primitive Keychains are designed to solve the perennial problem of "where did I put my keys?" Instead of solving this problem with a bowl or battery-powered-smart-thing, we added a ‘primitive’ solution by pausing each print and placing a strong magnet inside each keychain. This enables the keychains to be hung from any magnetic surface: especially useful in NYC where most apartments have metal doors. Now you can hang your keys where you can't miss them on your way out.
The keychains are a series of 6 shapes, modeled off of geometric primitives as well as a simplified human skull. Because skulls are cool.
skills: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, CAD, 3D Printing
year: 2018