Ryan Beckman

Undergraduate

As a designer, I strive to create products that are aesthetically distinct, of quality, and affordable to a wide range of consumers. I use an iterative design process, trend reports, digital manufacture for rapid prototyping and design-for-manufacture principals to create plans to transform raw materials to products that excite. Moving forward in my career, It is becoming more and more apparent to me to choose raw materials and manufacturing processes that allow for products to be reused or recycled.

Several renders of a standing lamp.

The Butterfly Lamp

The Butterfly Lamp

Class: ID 2024  | Instructor: Steve Chininis

The butterfly lamp is for business who want to create a sophisticated environment to host their clients. The entire 6’ tall body is made from 6061 aluminum and milled to .001” tolerance. The form is inspired by the bumbling grace of a butterfly in wind. As of today's date, 70% of the lamp is completed. For this project, I opted to machine the 51 aluminum parts myself on a CNC router. I plan on completing the lamp during the Summer of 2020.

Several renders of a organizational board.

The Student Organizer

The Student Organizer

Class: ID 2024  | Instructor: Steve Chininis

The Student Organizer is designed for students to organize their time in a visual and tangible way. Using the provided colored dry erase markers and the semester long calendar on the right side of the board, students can plan their time in a familiar, linear fashion. By using the other half of the board, students can make sense of the tasks they are presented by categorizing them into an Eisenhower matrix. This forces them to consider time, importance, and urgency when planning on what to do at a specific time. The board uses sticky notes, a thumb tack board, and threaded inserts for organizing activities on the left side of the board. The organizer is intended to be mounted in a dorm room and serve as a constant reminder of upcoming tasks.

Several images of a simple geometric toy set.

Shapes

Shapes

Class: ID 1011 | Instructor: Kimberly Snyder

"Shapes" is a toy intended to engage children with geometry through a combination of directed and undirected play. A tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, and dodecahedron disassemble and turn into building blocks for children to explore and play with.