Worked on a variety of projects for Disney Parks and Resorts along side a collaboration of designers, engineers, artists and management leaders. Projects range from environmental graphics, concept art and development, on-site research, logo development, blue-sky project developments and other various graphics and conceptual needs.
Ikanos, meaning able in Greek, is a magnetic mobile stability device that provides finger-free stability to smart phones by magnetically mounting the phone to a wearable wrist band. Designed with manual dexterity impairments in mind, Ikanos has features that provide strength, flexibility, adjustability and comfort for people to more easily use their smart phones throughout their daily lives.
Erin Rice BFA 2017
Lead was designed over the course of a semester in my 5th year at the University of Notre Dame for the 2016 Housewares Competition as a crate to aid in the transportation of stray dogs off the street to move them to animal shelters. While working with local animal control officers I discovered that due to a lack of other available equipment, officers will use an animal control stick to lift the dog by its neck or physically lift the dog by its body into the control vehicle. This can be dangerous for the control officer dealing with a viscous animal and potentially harmful for the animal as well. My design, Lead, has a hole at the top of the crate allowing officers to walk stray dogs directly into the cage while still on the animal control stick. This makes the dog easier to control, gives the officer more time to get the dog into the van and establishes a distance between the officer and the dog make the situation more safe for both.
I worked through the stages of design, development, prototyping, testing, modeling and rendering. All research, illustration, photography (unless otherwise marked) and design work is mine.
Placed second in the 2017 - 26th annual Walt Disney Imaginations competition. The top 6 teams of 336 submissions presented to Walt Disney Executives over a week in Glendale, CA. I was a member of a multi-disciplinary team of engineering and design students that designed a new outdoor space for Notre Dame students and faculty using human-centered design and research. We created digital concepts, storyboards, animation and user experience videos using Solidworks, Keyshot, Adobe Creative Suite and After Effects. I accepted a position as a professional design Imagineering intern in Orlando for the summer of 2017.
Concept, research, sketching, design and final illustrator file work for the Swiss Alp Kiosk used during the Epcot Food and Wine Festival. I also painted, illustrated and created custom type for the marquee sign using Photoshop. Art Direction by Emily Davis and production design by Ian Jones.
I worked on a variety of projects for Disney Parks and Resorts in collaboration with designers, engineers, artists and management leaders. Projects range from environmental graphics, concept art and development, on-site research, logo development, blue-sky project developments and other various graphics and conceptual needs.
Concept and sketch used as inspiration for wood carvers.
I worked on a variety of projects for Disney Parks and Resorts in collaboration with designers, engineers, artists and management leaders. Projects range from environmental graphics, concept art and development, on-site research, logo development, blue-sky project developments and other various graphics and conceptual needs.
Hue-Go is a toy inspired by volunteering in a low-income school in South Bend. It is designed to teach children color theory through the use of light shining through layers of different colored clear acrylic sheets. There are slot on the back of his body for the colored plates to be inserted. A small led flashlight is held inside his form. The button of the flashlight is exposed as an easy off and on switch for the toy. There is a flap secured by velcro to open and close Hue-Go to change the flashlight batteries. This prototype was laser cut from plywood and fits together like a puzzle, using minimal glue.
I worked on a variety of projects for Disney Parks and Resorts in collaboration with designers, engineers, artists and management leaders. Projects range from environmental graphics, concept art and development, on-site research, logo development, blue-sky project developments and other various graphics and conceptual needs.
London topographic inspired clock design
