I’m a product designer focused on balls and new projects. This website is mostly a dump of assets in my /projects/ folder.
I have trouble staying focused on 1 thing which has lead to a long list of side projects.
This timelapse captures a very silly mistake that wasted almost a full week. I'm working on a ball inspired by a classic Man United shirt, and in my quest to match the pattern on the kit I spent a few days figuring out how to screen print. After a few false starts, I individually screen printed a blue gradient on each of the 160+ panels. Only after that was complete did I realize the pattern wasn't going to work and the ball construction needed a completely different approach. 😅
A week condensed into ~20 seconds. This is the 'cube ball' which has 30 identical rhombus shaped panels that happen to look like little cubes.
A still pulled from a timelapse stitching up my “idea ball”. It's a ball made from dry erase board material so I can draw all over it to explore new ball ideas. It's a tool. Not meant to be played with.
Apple TV asked me to make a ball for MLS goalkeeper of the year: Roman Burki. It was an intense week to get it done before the deadline, but I really enjoyed it. The construction is based on the lines on the new away kit with Burki’s number 1 running through the water.
The first of man 'ball drops'. Every ball I've made (that I'm not embarassed by) was dropped onto 2 reluctant but willing participants. It's 'marketing' for 12 Pentagons, but also something that I really wanted to do and was a lot of fun. You can view the full slow motion video on 12p.com.
About half way through my 'truchet tile' ball. One of my personal favorites. A new path is created for every rotation of the panels on the ball. If we ever did a run of these, each balls would be completely unique!
A tetris inspired ball made for the first person to beat the game: 'Blue Scuti'.
A preview of the first ball that we will be dropping through 12 Pentagons. My favorite ball of all time (so far). 92 individual Italian leather panels hand stitched together.
This picture shows the crazy panel shapes for my (unintentional) sausage ball. The panels make 1 continuous path all around the ball to create the sphere.