Lighter koozie

While scrounging around for bottle opener this weekend I grabbed my roommates lighter to pop open a few beers to quench our thirst. After popping a few tops my eyes dropped down to various leather scraps sitting around the shop. Jokingly I suggested, Lets design some lighter koozies for your bic lighter. Sketching a few ideas I realized that the leather sleeve will be ruined if the design fully enclose a lighter. A potential could quickly shorten the life span of the leather koozie if using the leather surface as leverage in opening a bottle. The next logical step was to aesthetically design in an opening to accommodate bottle popping. This is our result. Quick. Fun.

HED LYTE: Round One Prototype

Quite a few people have been asking about "HED Lyte" so I'll start posting process photos here! This is the transition from digital to physical, so the model may appear a bit rough. As we continue to sample materials and build more models it'll start to look better! You guys definitely have to see this in person! Pretty unreal!

hedlyte creativesession design elephant

hedlyte creativesession design elephant

hedlyte creativesession design elephant

hedlyte creativesession design elephant

hedlyte creativesession design elephant

hedlyte creativesession design elephant

hedlyte creativesession design elephant

Hats off to you Martin Luther King

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Shoe Molds?

This goes out to all you shoe gurus. What are these called, I mean the technical term for these. I did a simple search for "Shoe Mold" I feel like there is an industry term for them and I've probably heard it before. We're looking for a unit for the office to design some shoes.

 

2k MARK

Some instagram users really know how to work their social network feed. I'm amazed at the 10s of thousands of followers some users have. Unfortunately here at CreativeSession we aren't that amazing at these things but slowly building a small genuine following of designers and artist. Today we just hit our 2000 follower mark! WHOOOOOOO If you've got instagram check out our feed. I'd hate to admit it but it's much easier to upload a photo than writing a blog. How do you all keep up with your blogs?

 

 

Rough Cut for a friend name HENRY

A year ago my co-worker Henry started a Kickstarter Project called "Solid Watch" the watch was a departure from having the formal wrist watch by being just a solid wrist monument, celebrating the idea of a watch. The "Solid Watch" was simply cause his friend had watches with piece of shit movements and wanted to do something different. Long story short Henry ended up being funded 130k for the project and now has over 500 hundred watches 6 different styles to fulfill and send out to his buyers. This year Henry is back and hungry for more. We recently filmed him working on his latest KickStarter project the "Cable Block" here is a rough cut. Ignore my voice in the second half of the video- I added it to inspire Henry to write his own script for the rest of the video since he was too shy to do it day of shoot.

 

Thoughts in the New, Year

This article about the Dalai Lama when asked"What suprisied him most about humanity" is old. Yes, but it totally relevant. I stumbled upon it again on Instagram through a friend and it struck a nerve somewhere in the work ethic aisle. It is true we are stuck in a society were we work so hard, being busy, being overwhelmed, having your plates full or flooded is seen as such a positive connotation. This posting is somewhat a reconsideration.... This year I want to find balance. I want to work smarter not harder. Be selective where and whom i deposit my energy and efforts to. Will it be work, family , love or life?

 

LAMPFIRE

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another.  It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.  ~Henry David Thoreau

It used to be each summer a group of friends and I schedule a summer camping trip at the Oregon Coast, generally this lands mid to late August while summer is at it's best. If you're an Oregonian you know we are dark, cloudy and rainy about 85% of the year so we take advantage of the good weather when the opportunity is there.

 

Now the complications of growing up are that people move away, we become busier, we start families, our schedules and lives are based around timely factors.

 

Driving to work one morning two miles of my commute is graced with vast plains of grass and greenery. With my window down the crisp air brought back nostalgic memories of my used to be yearly camping trip. Late evenings around a campfire; yelling, joking, eating, telling stories, pure joy, fear, excitement ... insert emotions. This is natures invitation to bond, to come together, to surround ourselves with loved ones and get lost. At this very moment these memories converted into a design, a design with meaning, something to capture the essence of a campfire.

 

This is the "LampFire"

 

 

 

 

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hed lyte - updates

A quick illustration I just knocked out to get my head back into this project! We"re looking to get these Hed Lyte"s produced! Will post more details tomorrow! :)

creativesession hed lyte light design

CS GIVEAWAY

As much as our designer hearts desire to have our hands in everything creative there isn't enough Creative Session's to execute everything we'd like to do at the level we expect. Apparel is a great example of our lack of man power, we focus a large percentage of our time into industrial design that all the interesting apparel doesn't really get produced, we'd have a sample here and there but never a large enough quantity to sell.  There are a ton of you emailing inquiring about purchasing unfortunately our focus isn't fully on apparel yet!  The "Dream Catcher" is our commitment in executing our project through and through so after this contest we will!  So here is the deal, we'd like to give out 3 "Dream Catcher" sweater to 3 lucky winner after the contest we're going to drop this on kickstarter to motivate us to open our online apparel section. PEEP the VIDEO and enter to WIN

BEST THING OUT OF THE BAY AREA

Now I'm not a music expert but my ear drums do not lie when I hear good music. Our friend Adam rap name A-1 has been putting out conscious, amazing story telling hip hop that's appealing to the MASS.  Now being in the design industry we're constantly faced with heavy constructive criticism daily, heavy harsh truth that really molds and crafts a quality designer. So I'm not here to be friendly and compliment a friend! Its the TRUTH and this guy will be untouchable soon! Check out his music here:

http://www.a-1music.com/

 

His latest video " SPEAKER " produced by WOOSTAAR

 

Congrats Team Japan on Winning Cut & Paste Global Finals

Happy Monday to whom ever sets eyes on my after lunch post. The last 5 days spent in NYC has been amazing, charming and eventful to put short. The CS crew flew out east to attend the Cut&Paste Global championship. We came  to show our  friend Tom Gurka & Creative Session's Anh Nguyen support. They competed under "2d/3d" for the San Francisco chapter. Unfortunately San Francisco didn't win this round but they did an amazing job! Congrats to the guys from Japan for taking Gold. I will be posting a more detailed blog and video soon.

(to be continued....)