Henry Lee
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Industrial Design
  1. Gravel Travel
  2. Wiley Wi-Fi Phone
  3. Switchpod Tripod
  4. Noctive Sleep Aid
  5. Zenith Air Pollution
  6. Breger Birdhouse
  7. Walnut Ice Cream Scoop

UX & Graphic Design
  1. Atlas A.I. Chatbot
  2. Creative A.I. Site
  3. Isla Porter Site
  4. The Plains Identity / Site
  5. Zenith Air Pollution
  6. Myna Bird Media App
  7. Academic Abstractions Site
  8. Conserve Utah Valley Branding
  9. Owlet App Exercise

Design Research + Writing
  1. Gravel Travel
  2. Zenith Air Pollution
  3. Design Research Methods
  4. The Academy (MFA Thesis)
  5. MemoryFull? Conference
  6. LearnxDesign Paper
  7. Shrink Wrap Zine

Speculative Design
  1. Interspecies Knowledge
  2. The Academy (MFA Thesis)
  3. Academic Poetry Zine
  4. Product Ritual Circles
  5. Medicine Cube
  6. Bee-Hive-Way

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Walnut Ice Cream Scoop (Industrial Design)

For a personal project to improve my general design skills I focused on rapid prototyping, quick sketching, form creation, 3D modeling, 3D printing, and CNC milling. Because I felt that ice cream scoops often lack beauty I designed an ice cream scoop focused on both beauty and utility. I began with sketching forms:



After going through a few rounds of sketching I then moved into sculpting by hand using foam. The goal was to find something that fit in the hand well and then translated into a scoop:


3D odeling and 3D printing:

After sculpting twenty or so forms I decided to move into the digital. I used Solidworks to draft numerous 3D designs, translating the sculpted designs into CAD versions. After such I 3D printed a number of these in order to both practice 3D printing but also to size and use the scoop:





Finally, I used a CNC mill to mill the final piece. I decided to use a block of walnut because it is sturdy and elegant. Here is the finalized product:


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