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Hand-sewn ultralight roll-top backpack, finished
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Product Designs

Small product builds and handmade gifts — a hand-sewn backpack, a wooden pull toy, an origami-inspired chair, and jewelry.

Projects

Bag

A fully hand-sewn roll-top dry bag backpack. Constructed from a discarded dry bag and retired climbing rope, this bag is water tight, fully repurposed materials, and can haul loads of gear to the crag, up a mountain, through the canyons, or down a river.


Spider Pull Toy

A wood pull toy with articulating legs, designed from hand-drawn 1:1 scale sketches through to a painted final build.

Hand-drawn top-view design sketch for the spider pull toy
Design sketch — top view, 1:1 scale.
Hand-drawn front-view design sketch for the spider pull toy
Design sketch — front view.
Finished black spider pull toy with painted eyes, studio shot
Finished pull toy, painted and assembled.
Spider pull toy hanging from its pull string, front view
Front view, hanging from the pull string.
Back view of the spider pull toy showing the wheel mechanism
Back view, showing the internal wheel mechanism.

Origami-Inspired Chair

A faceted chair design developed from small scale cardboard models through to a full-scale plywood build.

Small cardboard concept model of an origami-inspired chair
Early cardboard concept model.
Cardboard chair model, alternate angle
Concept model, alternate angle.
Full-scale plywood origami-inspired chair
Full-scale plywood build.

Jewelry

Handmade jewelry combining dark rose wood with abalone shell inlay.

Wood and abalone shell necklace with matching mismatched earrings
Wood and abalone necklace with mismatched earrings.
A second pair of dark wood drop earrings with gold hooks
A second pair of wood drop earrings.

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