Colin the male dominatrix

Today me and Jerry were ripped apart by Colin during a early morning grump-fest.  This was a typical colin thrashing, nothing to get all hurt about.  Unfortunately, my slide deck was set up somewhere in the middle of a ligit presentation and the required "up to date outline of your progess" hitting neither on the head and receiving criticism on a lot of useless points.  Never the less Got a few good snippets of infomation.

Then thank god, we left early to go over to North Face with Mike Caroselli to meet Gabriel Phillips- a CCA alum and designer in the shoe department at Northface.

Talking to Gabriel was most helpful.  It was great to see the behind the scenes design work at Northface and to get a sense of his process.  

Gabriel has a real passion for sustainable design (although limited to its application) and suggested I look into some shoes that have been produced in Portugal using coconut fiber.   These shoes supposedly use natural Latex or water-based rubber that comes straight from a "rubber tree."

More research suggests that rubber trees can be found going in tropical climates like western africa.  It is unknown as to whether rubber is exported to eastern Kenya but I think Ill try some experiments with coconut rubber soles anyways.

Budget Development for WAZO

Today me and James finished the final Budget scenario for WAZO.  This template was sent to me by Think Impact and revised by me and James to fit the parameters of the WAZO Institute.

Timeline WAZO

Developed a timeline for the WAZO project based off of the same graphical elements as the overall system graphics.

WAZO structure

Worked with Konina and the rest of the team on what the overall process of WAZO will be like.  We created a infographic showing the virtuous cycle of design thinking and production expected from WAZO.

All of the previous iterations and ideation around the overall structure of the WAZO project were evaluated and refined so we could get a simple graphic for the application on the 11th.

Konina drafted up this graphic in Illustrator and sent it around for thoughts and revisions.  

WAZO Brand

Working with Konina on creating a Brand for the WAZO Design Institute.  The Brand is based off of the earlier ideas with Ben Ilka on creating a visual language based off of the Swahili village.

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Nikki, Mike, and I sat down and tried to write out certain design criteria for which we would make decisions later down the road.  I mapped out several different attributes found in a variety of shoe types and linked that information with criteria that I found compelling from my trip to Kenya.
As I pull different aspects of shoe types and learned experiences from Kenya I think that some interesting results may occur.

It's at this point that Colin has instructed me to move forward with "making" but I wanted to at least attempt to clarify why I am making what I am making.

IMPACT APPLICATION Proposal

Been working with our advisor Amina Horozic, the team, and Nathan Shedroff on the overall narrative and proposal for the IMPACT application.  
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime"