Nike Moby Sling Cannon
The “Sling Cannon” was a bag with clever pockets on the shoulder strap. One of the pockets held your mp3 player which connected to the speaker that came out of the top of the pack so you could play music out loud while wearing the pack.
Nike Moby Duff
Part of the Moby collection, this was the basketball bag: oversized to fit a ball, sneakers, clothes and integrated with a built-in mp3 player and LOUD speaker.
Nike Moby Sk8
This bag was designed to hold your gear and a skateboard. An mp3 player could be plugged inside the bag and music could be heard via the stand-collar at the top of the bag that held speakers that were about the size of a quarter. We had something like two weeks to build three “Moby” bags ... more
Maria Sharapova 2006 French Open Bag
All of the outer parts of this leather bag were laser-etched at Nike with Dunny Bunnies (see www.kidrobot.com) and the custom printed lining was little clusters of green camo-colored Dunny Bunnies. Nike’s a prototyper’s playground: so many machines to sample all kinds of materials and products.
Centaur Puppet
Cowboy boots and undershirt My friend Jeff, asked me to make a little ribbed undershirt and red cowboy boots for his puppet “Tata”. I enjoyed the process of building the boots and the tiny undershirt and was pleased with the way they turned out. The boots are about 4 inches tall, the outer is made of ... more
Apple iPod Case 2002
Apple kept me busy for a while and I built all kinds of different prototypes that are still secret. Maybe a year later, during a meeting at another design consultancy, one designer was praising the iPod case and how perfectly it had been made. What a nice compliment. This designer wasn’t aware I’d developed the ... more
Interactive Siamese Fighting Fish Display 1995
This was one of my first “soft goods” (non-fashion) projects for an animal husbandry exhibit by the name of “Mating Games” at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Later it traveled to the Aquarium of The Americas in New Orleans, Louisiana.