Photo-documentation of various fieldwork undertaken across Ontario from 2014 through 2018. Renewable energy projects I was involved in constructing were typically flush-mount and ballasted rooftop PV systems undertaken for commercial and institutional applications within the GTA and across Ontario. Carpenters became instrumental to Ontario’s nascent […]
Author: tron carpenter
isometric sketch
Unlike the massive form and matter of built-up objects any geometric tessellation uses what a design school professor of mine opined on as ‘impossible shapes.’ I was to realize the inexorable constraint upon what’s actually possible to manufacture or otherwise fabricate in encounters later on […]
substrate-independent ambient goods
This painting, developed using a CAD file and illustrator software to colour each facet of a simulated product assembly, was inspired through mental sketches of prospective interactive objects. It is a wallet-size carrier of keys but the hypothesis of the product is that its communications, sensing […]
children’s record player
This device can be integrated with a turntable to enable manually-operated playback of records. The design intent is for adults and young children to engage in a tactile play experience involving a turntable and speaker system. Designed and fabricated in winter and spring of 2013 […]
softworlds
“I’ve almost stopped reading with the exception of the news, but I’m deep into screen-art and pixel pushing this past few months. I want to do a few products so I’ve been drawing and modelling a good deal. I have all the makings, I need […]
ambient goods
Through the process of conceptualizing a carrier for small objects, I realized that a dual-entity product could potentially exist as both an informational presence and physical good, affording compound utilities informed by the duality of the physical and virtual embodiments of what the product is […]
keyp imaginating
What began as a technical drawing developed into a 2D design visualization for a soft good, at which point the visualization began to feel like a contained universe. It is in this ambient domain that the product concept itself may be understood as having more […]