Madison Lovelace
Undergraduate
As a designer, I aspire to balance user empathy and posing questions to the user for why and how we use products. I like to handle social hardships in my designs, like abstractly teaching kids to be more open-minded and designing dinnerware for a local business trying to bring great food to a community. Even with all the heavy aspects of my work, I manage to lighten it up with a sprinkle of humor or stability of style.
AUTO
Class: ID 2024 | Instructor: Lisa Marks
AUTO is a storage stool made for construction workers as a place to sit and store their personal items. By increasing organization and decreasing clutter, the stool aids
productivity in the industry and fulfills needs of rest and belongingness in the workers.
The stool is made out of a 4x4 1/4" piece of plywood and has the ability to pack flat and be assembled by the user for decreased shipping cost. The construction industry is a huge conglomeration of people from all walks of life with a lot of different backgrounds and in a lot of cases their office space is being cluttered and misused and there is not a place for the workers themselves to put their things.
FACE FORWARD
Class: ID 2024 | Instructor: Lisa Marks
For our 'purposefully lighting' project I decided to explore the speculative design process, which basically asks why instead of who, what or where. So as technology becomes more and more incorporated into our lives, FACE FORWARD asks what a world would be like where we could know each others feelings.
What do we look like when we are force to be vulnerable?
Will technology begin to feel for us?
FACE FORWARD is an interactive wearable that takes heartrate and eyebrow muscle sensor input and outputs patterns of light acting as different emotions. This project gave me the ability to explore and develop a different set of design skills while simultaneously causing myself to be vulnerable in the process.
Bag of Bugs
Class: ID 2023 | Instructor: Lisa Marks
One of the first skills taught to children is categorization. At first, this aids their ability to describe people, places, and things. But when they get older, this categorization turns into over-simplification, which can lead to kids describing people by their one obvious feature. Bag of Bugs reteaches seven-year-olds the hard and fast rules taught by binary thinking.
By recategorizing bugs, this game will break those rules to open the door for more open-minded thinking. It consists of 30 carefully chosen bugs, 15 straight forward card prompts and 15 debatable card prompts, the board that also functions as a carrying bag, and the instruction manual/bug index. This game utilizes the research that the negatives of categorical thinking can be dealt with by the recategorization of the same data. Bag of Bugs is for one or two players and hopes to insight some fun conversations and transfer some indirect entomology knowledge.
Xahar Yen
Class: ID 2023 | Instructor: Lisa Marks
Xahar Yen is a dinnerware set that includes a plate, soup bowl, sauce bowl, and cup stacked together to mimic the architectural forms of ancient Thailand. "Xahar yen" means dinnerware in Thai and the name mimics the restaurant Talat Market, where "talat" means market. Designed for a Georgia Thai fusion restaurant the dinnerware incorporates forms found in Thailand along with materials that reflect the Atlanta aesthetic, and a pattern symbolic of their fusion. Through this design, I captured the Thai street side eating atmosphere, established broadness for an ever-changing menu, and incorporated Thai cultural influences into the modern Atlanta aesthetic telling the story of the restaurant throughout the dinnerware.
Switch On
Class: ID 2101 | Instructor: Tim Purdy
Switch On is an interactive art piece that acts as a light when you're studying. It is for people with ADHD who work better at night. It hopes to provide an object that is associated with being productive to people struggling to focus. The piece sculpts to the head and hooks in and around the ear. The switch is located right at the base of the ear and houses different lighting patterns and color combinations, so the user has the freedom to choose what is the most comfortable to enhance their productivity.
Gleadic Lamp
Class: ID 1011 | Instructor: Yaling Liu
The Gleadic Lamp line provides a niche lighting experience for any room. The decorative lamps create a warm, comfortable environment. The use of clean, sustainable materials and the trueness to those materials are to evoke a feeling of comfort and act as a statement piece for any room as well as a light source. I decided to move on with this final design because I am interested in the field of lighting design and how it can interact with a product and its environment. Since this project allowed us to have the freedom to choose a product, I decided to take an opportunity to do something was interest in.
Exhibit
Group Members: Cameron Silas, Jocelyn Jagrowski, Tynan Purdy
Class: ID 1012 | Instructor: Yaling Liu
When the pandemic sent us all home in the spring of 2020, my groupmates and I were upset we didn't get to make our exhibit that featured the work of 8 designs. So, since we couldn't make our exhibit in person, we had much larger limits to this project and decided to go big, and in a location, we couldn't access on Tech's campus. We wanted to evoke the feeling of being in an art exhibit and used vector illustrations to guide the user throughout the exhibit and caused the user to linger by adding piece cards to give a little more information about the designs. The exhibit houses sustainable brands as well as sustainable sensibilities. It is made of a used shipping container, decomposable fabric walls, and recycled flip-flops as the mannequin hands.