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change | final state

July 13th, 2009 · No comments

MATRAH– Part-time Urban Nomad In the future we won’t be travelling less, rather the frequency will increase whilst we will learn to waive certain luxury. By combining a backpack with a cot ‘Matrah’ brings back adventure, independence and spontaneity into city travelling. The 6 glass fibre shells hold a capacity of 60l and can be [...]

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Shopping cart | ISY

July 6th, 2009 · No comments

This project for a design contest was in cooperation with two classmates: Thomas Hribar and Roman Mraz. A combination of a trolley for the bike and a shopping cart for the supermarket. Contest by Country of Styria and Spar. ‚ISY’ is a bike trolley that combines high variability with high usability. Our goal was to [...]

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Change | last steps

May 10th, 2009 · No comments

I have to finish this project May 27 … so I’ll have to work hard, as always. Not really seeing forward to nights at the university  sanding or sewing to get it done. Long, long nights coming. But I’m positiv I can make it in time. Here my latest stuff – some done before my [...]

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Change | Premodels

April 20th, 2009 · No comments

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change | new concept

April 16th, 2009 · No comments

Today the new idea hit me – why don’t I create a comfortable cot instead of this shakedown kind of thing. So far I’ve been working on a solution where you could lie on the bare plastic of the hard case of the backpack. As I said this was only meant to be a makeshift [...]

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Change | Trendboard

April 11th, 2009 · No comments

For my backpack-project ‘Part-Time Urban Nomad’ I tried to determine the style it should get by a trendboard – it should be an insperation and an incentive.

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Digital rendering | speedform

April 11th, 2009 · No comments

As a good exercise I had to render my speedform I built last year together with Ben Baum – the task was to show it in  three different angles and three different materials

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Change | Part-Time Urban Nomad

April 4th, 2009 · No comments

Time is flyin’ – the first 6 weeks of the new term rushed by, pretty stressful, many long nights and a huge progress. Here is just a rough overview of what has happened so far – I’ll structure it as soon as I have some spare time.

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Chop-Job | Canson Renderings

March 3rd, 2009 · No comments

Finally got my canson renderings scanned. The imagesstill don’t look as good as in real, nevertheless…

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Chop-Job | Model making

February 19th, 2009 · No comments

Here some photos from me working on the model and some pre-models.

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