Retro 4-base shades with side shields and metal lens inserts.

Modeling RHINO. Rendering KEYSHOT. VDLR 2020

Exercise 2 in modeling footwear in RHINO.

Smart fitness tracker for 24/7 wear. Accessories for those intoxicating hours. Fresh little module tracker with custom bands for any occasion. 3D surfacing in RHINO. Rendered in KEYSHOT. INTEL 2017

Re-imagining a classic from the 80's, Penny’s smart book from Inspector Gadget. Modeling Rhino. Renders Keyshot.

Water bottle and brand design for Bits Of Shred, a roller skating lifestyle brand.

2020

Exercise in modeling sneakers. 3D modeling done in RHINO (total 6 hrs). Water tight surfaces ready for RP. Renderings done in KEYSHOT. VDLR 2019.

Using the same architecture as in INTEL’s Vaunt smart-glasses, Hynts are designs that addresses more feminine skews of the technology. 3D surfacing RHINO. Rendering KEYSHOT. INTEL 2018.

Sense yourself with Cibel. Stay fit and look pro. Track your heart, stay in the know, bring along your jams on runs, and track your miles with Strava. 3D modeling RHINO. Rendering in KEYSHOT. INTEL 2017

A watch for watch wearers. Classic look for style. Technology for the information when you need. Digital screens are hidden behind a special film and information only appears when information is displayed. 3D surfacing in RHINO. Rendering in KEYSHOT. Animations in ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS. INTEL 2017

Kettle is a life accessory to be worn 24/7. It’s highly effective Optical Heart Rate Monitor keeps you in check. The tiny reader’s snap feeatures allow users to swap bands in out. 3D surfacing RHINO GRASSHOPPER. Renderings in KEYSHOT. INTEL 2017.

Discreet digital craftsmanship to get the information that only you can see. The design’s team primary objective was to make smart eye-wear that didn’t look like tech. Rendering KEYSHOT. INTEL 2018.

Wacom’s Inkling allows user to sketch ideas on standard paper or sketchbooks while capturing a digital likeness of sketches in raster for use in Photoshop or vector format for use in Illustrator.

While at Alchemy Labs Veronica worked with Wacom to help establish their next generation digital sketching device, the Inkling. Inspired by the little black sketchbook, the Inkling's form factor integrates all components into a clever carrying case. Inkling merges the gap between traditional, freehand sketching and digital design by recording a digital likeness of a pen-on-paper sketch. 3D surfacing RHINO. Renderings in KEYSHOT. ALCHEMYLABS 2010. ALCHEMY LABS 2010.

In order to increase interests in the Airbus A380, the company requested the design of an intake experience (I.E.). This vessel functions as a precursive experience where student groups, investors, and designers are immersed in the branding, concept and ideas of Airbus.
The ideology of the studio was one of fluidity, where the creation of an object was regulated in terms of gaining an understanding of a vocabulary of shape, color and material. Therefore an explanation of form did not require justification by a programmatic logic but rather one of a formal relationship of difference or similarity to the plane, and to the theatrics of experience. UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY CALIFORNIA 2007

Academic design build project design in Rhino and Catia. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY 2007.

WET: “West End Terminal”  is an interactive art piece that showcased at SEAT, an outdoor chair show located at Ft. Mason in San Francisco, in  June 23rd, 2011. The show was presented by Fort Mason and Seam Studio .   Over 40 designers, artists and architects were asked to participate in creating seats that will be on display for over a year in various locations around Fort Mason and during the 2012 America’s Cup.  Nilus Designs was one of the firms chosen to participate.

WET challenges the historical context of Fort Mason by inserting an object that although foreign in form and function to its immediate surroundings, is suggestive and illustrative of the nautical ecology in which it situated.  It serves as a beacon both in that it draws people out to the pier from the pedestrian approach and it also signals to vessels out at sea much like a light house.  The piece plays with concepts of real and virtual experiences and with analog and contemporary forms of gathering information.

Material decision-making was based on emphasizing the elements at Fort Mason.  Constructed of 208 vertical topographical sections of clear twin wall poly-carbonate, the seat’s cellular surface acts as a test tube accumulating salt deposits and other site debris.  Mirrored acrylic is used around the base of the seat, reflecting the site’s unpredictable sky and also giving the illusion of an underwater inhabitable topography eluding to the maritime features of the site.

 In addition to these two materials, WET is internally wired with LEDs that glow when activated by visitors. By stepping on the inscribed dot and dash “buttons” of the seat’s mirrored platform, WET glows in pulses, allowing visitors to “write” in Morse code and send messages to those in their visual vicinity. 

W.E.T’s mirrored surface is also embedded with a newer form of communication.  The surrounding acrylic functions as a contemporary billboard where visitors can use their smart phones to read inscribed QR codes that will navigate their phones to websites with relevant information of Fort Mason, WET, donors and the America's Cup.

3D surfacing RHINO. CNC machined. NILUS DESIGNS 2011

Developments in technology and communications have created for a field of flux that has greatly affected the ideals and standards of people and the manner in which society operates. Such conditions require for an architecture just as transient as the lives of the people it houses. Pneumatics can offer such devices. This in combination with the steady growth of the world population requires the rethinking of the role of the skyscraper in the 21st century. It is these parameters that have formulated the concept of Pneumatic Heights, a tower constructed of a flexible system of pneumatic P. Schwarz surfaces. Group Project: Benjamin Moore 

Architecture can be flexible. It can let go of its grip of time and place, and thrust itself into a world of fluctuating identities. As a means for a testing ground for the thesis, the project consist of a floating vessel that once barged inflates and conforms to an event space for fashion week to later reinvent itself into a landscape. Using air as a means of activation and mediation, the vessel’s form inflates, expands, deflates and appropriates surfaces, transforming from the spatial dimension of shelter to non-shelter. By requiring the project to perform at these two extreme topological dimensions, the thesis tests the different degrees of robustness of the designed system.  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY [Thesis] 2008

“The traditional Ames Room is a room that appears uniform and square, yet in actuality is an asymmetrically framed distortion of space. This typology was invented by Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1934, who made contributions to physics, physiology, ophthalmology, psychology, and philosophy. When viewed from the frontal plane, the typical walls in an Ames Room will appear parallel and perpendicular to a level floor and ceiling. However, the room’s singular perspective view optically conceals the true shape of the architecture. As a result of a translational ‘glitch’ between perception and reality, two people of similar size will appear diametrically smaller and larger depending on their position in the space. “ Thom Faulders

3D surfacing RHINO. FAULDERS STUDIO 2009

“_BAMscape is a free-form seating environment commissioned by the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. 

Installed for a 2 ½ year duration, BAMscapeprovides a new centerpiece within the museum’s large 6,692 square foot central atrium gallery, and merges disciplines of art, architecture, and furniture. As an open site for lounging, film screenings, live performance and multimedia events, BAMscape fosters the museum’s direction for providing diverse event programming amidst its gallery spaces.

BAMscape hosts wireless Internet and integrated outlets for powering laptops, and allows visitors to enjoy the space as a site for study and social networking. To achieve a maximum of volumetric presence within the budget limitations, the pre-fab system deploys CNC large-scale laser cutting processes to custom manufacture 150 individual curved modules. Lightweight and comprised of 93% air, the rigid foam structural substrate is laminated with thin layers of painted plywood. “ - Tho Faulders. 3D surfacing RHINO. FAULDERS STUDIO 2010

Design for an interior renovation for a client in Mill Valley California. Particular attention was given to the main living room and kitchen. Photographs: Jason Madara for The Wall Street Journal. 3D surfacing RHINO. Rendering MAXWELL. NILUS DESIGNS 2013

Concept models for Wacom’s Inkling packaging. ALCHEMY LABS 2010.

Propierty Wacom Software design for exporting layered drawings from the Inkling pen to your computer. The software was designed to help users save time by quickly preparing their files for email distribution or for further development in other creative software, such as Adobe Photoshop. In addition to file prepping, the software manager features a time scrubber so users can see stroke by stroke the execution of their drawings and isolate certain vectors to create new layers. PHOTOSHOP. ALCHEMYLABS 2010