Teaching Location: Cuyahoga Valley Career Center
Project Type: Engineering Design
One action-packed week of middle school summer camp, repeated for three weeks of course! Daily lessons allowed students to explore hands-on topics in engineering through model making, hand sketching, 3D-model making, and 3D-printing. Engineering topics included: motor-driven airplane and rocket building, bridge design construction, as well as soldering and circuitry.
Teaching Location: Firestone Community Learning Center
Project Type: Graphic Design
Hailing from the self-proclaimed idyllic post-apocalyptic wasteland metropolis of Akron, Ohio, EarthQuaker Devices doesn’t just manufacture effects pedals, they inspire musical adventures for all sonic explorers. Insert one music lover, obsessed guitar effects pedal owning, high school graphic design teacher; poof it was a match made in heaven. Starting from scratch, spending an endless ear-splitting amount of time deep diving, crash course case studying amount of time, research began by dissecting the cavernous catalog of creative sounds prescribed by Earthquaker Devices. Next up, define your effects pedal style, knobs, switches, functions, two-tone color scheme, artist feature statement, pedal description, and most importantly graphical awesomeness. Made with fresh ingredients, one selected winner was fabricated top to bottom from power-coated goodness.
Forest Dweller and Moonmossdweller were recipients of the Ohio Scholastic Art Silver Key award for 2021 in the category of Digital Design.
Forest Dweller was the 2021 design selected by EarthQuaker Devices for fabrication (note: fabrication consisted of a non-functional effects pedal showcasing the powder-coated design only) and featured on their Instagram account