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solidThinking Inspire

solidThinking Inspire is concept generation and inspiration for better products. Inspire helps design engineers create parts right the first time, reducing costs, development time, material consumption, and product weight. Inspire helps create dramatically lighter structures and allows users to understand the effect of material placement in whatever they’re developing. Inspire is designed to be as simple to use as possible utilizing large and visual contextual icons to perform hundreds of functions. Similar applications can take months to fully master where Inspire takes at most four hours.

TOMO branding & interface design

TOMO is a friend and full-time passenger. I designed the branding concept for the TOMO interface system, a project sponsored by Toyota and Fujutsu Sen. Each letter in the TOMO logo is derived from the iconic Toyota logo, and in combination, the letters reform the original Toyota logo, subtly preserving Toyota's brand equity.The name is an abbreviation of the iconic Tomoguchi virtual pets of the 1990's. Now, TOMO is grown up and has evolved into a fully interactive, intuitive vehicle interface system. TOMO is the interface of the future, and we're developing a product that can be implemented by 2020.

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Tangible Data

Design and Information Technology have changed the way we live our everyday lives. Development of effective 3D Printing techniques have inspired me to think about a creative methodology for Information Design. My selected projects aim to explore a tangible communication through data-driven fabrication. I hope these practices foster the way we perceive data and eventually create new experiences which allow users to be more engaged with data.

Surface

The ethereal nature of the piece gives rise to something tangible. The idea comes from the use of water as an element to convey the concept of surfacing and being a surface. The designer has a fascination for bringing into being our identities and the role those around us have in that process. For him, we "surface" when we show something of ourselves.

Dominus plus

Dominus plus expresses time in an original way. Like dots on dominoe pieces three groups of dots represent: hours, tens of minutes and minutes. The time of day can be read from the color of the dots: green for AM; yellow for PM. The application contains a timer, an alarm clock and chimes. All functions are navigable by touching discrete corner dots. It is had an original and artistic design presenting the actual 21st century Face of Time. It is designed in a beautiful symbiosis with Apple portable devices' cases. It has a simple interface with only a few necessary words to operate it.