Some new junk

The Umeå Institute of Design is taking its toll on me... Anyway, I scanned and photographed some of my newer works on the last day of my first semester there.
I would have scanned more drawings, but I hadn't slept for a few days, so oh well.







Oh yeah, http://www.christianhagg.com is operational as well.

That looks like a lot of work and fun at the same time. Fuckin' sweet.

Portable mouse?

That looks like a lot of work and fun at the same time. Fuckin' sweet.

It is. Design school is slowly killing my "art" though, but I'm getting better at technique. Not sure if it's really worth it in the end...

Portable mouse?

Sure, it was mostly a form/technique exercise though. Creating polished, complex surfaces is incredibly annoying.

Those are great, Chruser, and I'm glad you got that site up.

I especially like the mouse, it looks very ergonomic - and aerodynamic. XD

And some more!

The second thing is nice. Futuristic transportation device?

Looks like a razor and/or taser.

It's the 3030 batmobile.

Awesome work, Chruser. You are an inspiration to those of me with no artistic talent to speak of.

Thanks for your input guys. Everyone has artistic talent, it's just a matter of deciding what medium to express it with. Improvement is a by-product of trial and error (mainly error).

I currently have an internal battle going on regarding whether I want to become a fine artist or an illustrator/designer. Perhaps the question can be extended to "Do I ask questions, or do I answer them?" Thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Draw, photograph and do 3D to post:

I really love the egg photo.

I think you're a great artist, illustrator, and designer - my answer is whatever you think you'd have the most fun doing.

Personally I would pick Illustrator or fine artist, as those two appeal to me the most out of the two. You might like design better, I don't know. Whatever you pick, I'm sure you'll be successful.

And you can always, you know, switch.

[QUOTE=Chruser]Everyone has artistic talent, it's just a matter of deciding what medium to express it with. Improvement is a by-product of trial and error (mainly error).[QUOTE]

That makes me feel so much better about myself.
This is about the best i could do. It was on the back of a piece of paper in 8th grade computer ed.
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why won't it just let me post the pic? It is making me post a link.....

Everyone has artistic talent, it's just a matter of deciding what medium to express it with. Improvement is a by-product of trial and error (mainly error).

Quite true. I suppose I misspoke earlier. I have no graphically-oriented artistic talent to speak of. My talent seems to lie in manipulation of the written word.

My talent involves the art of music. I play around 10 instruments and can read all of the clefts easily.

I just completed a Magnetite-related project for the Kiruna municipality in Sweden. Basically, it involved doing something with their refined sources of iron ore. So I built a train track out of it and designed a free-floating maglev train for it. My project teacher had a 10-minute fit with me and told everyone that my design process is "too logical", uncreative and bad. Oh well.














I'll post some animations later (and re-render the last image with a higher amount of rays to remove some grain; it was part of an animation. With a render time of around 1h30m per frame with even a low radiosity setting, I was running out of time before the presentation).

If everyone train was as beautiful as that, the world would be a better place! It's a brilliant design!

I don't get what's so bad about your design process being "too logical". Surely the most logical designs are better than illogical ones?

you using lightwave i am buying one since student edition is cheap and if you buy comercial upgrade is only 95 dollar good deal. Anyway nice train.

That is one insain train! I would love to see some animations.

You know, it's getting harder and harder to tell if these things are photographs or just renders. Stop being so good!

I like the design of the lighter. Reminds me of the train somewhat - are you experimenting with different variations of that design in different products, or is it just co-incidence?

And I must ask, if you weren't at that school, would you be creating things like the train, the mouse, the egg in the cup, or the lighter above? Because I for one think they're "seriously cool", to use a phrase I never would use normally.