Nathan D. Paoletta. Portfolio of Selected Work. Object, Graphic & Game Designer + Maker

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1 ndpdesign Nathan D. Paoletta Object, Graphic & Game Designer + Maker n.d.paoletta@gmail.com ndpdesign.com Portfolio of Selected Work Contents Taylor/White Chandelier Play With Your Food More Than It s Worth + LOADED CTA Station: Division Five Minute Clocks Z Room Divider Next Page

2 Taylor/White Chandelier A bright centerpiece for an eclectic home. Work In Progress Custom Lighting Fixture Initial ideation, hand sketches, models and current prototype. Design goal is a unique chandelier with a hand-made aesthetic that also responds to existing woodwork in the client s American Restoration home. Foam Model Digital Model 1 Example of existing detail Hand sketches Digital Model 2 Current MDF Prototype

3 Play With Your Food Three Games About What You Eat Spring 2011 Exhibition Prototypes This series of three analog games educates players about issues surrounding food while providing entertaining platforms for real-world interaction with others. Each game in the series focuses on a different selection of issues surrounding how players get and consume what they eat. Video Videos demonstrating how each game works in play can be found at: Food Court Frenzy Dinner Winner Play With Your Food in Exhibition All images of physical, playable prototypes in exhibition at the Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, June Feed Them! A strategic resource-management game that models the complex factors surrounding the journey of food from production to retail outlets. 2-4 Players, Ages 12+ Laser-cut chipboard, laser printing, dyed wood A tongue-in-cheek traditional board game focused on overeating and the relationship between how much food costs and how healthy it is. Players interact with expandable silicone pants, making the experience of overeating a visual and tactile one. 2-4 Players, Ages 6+, Vacuformed ABS plastic, cast silicone, cast polyurethane plastic, laser-cut acrylic, inkjet printing An experimental game that uses the kitchen refrigerator as a board. Players use fridge magnet pieces to represent the food that goes in and out of the fridge. The game tracks time-untilspoilage and incentivizes healthier consumption through point values and self-assigned bonuses. Any number of players, All ages, Magnet sheet, inkjet printing

4 Play With Your Food Spring 2011 Ideation Process The prototyping process for these games concerned both physical iteration and game rule platesting/iteration, with both cycles feeding the other. Food Court Frenzy Physical prototyping included the board concept & layout, player stand form and usability, rubber pants material and usability, and food piece material and form. Feed Them! Rules iteration drove component design, with an intuitive leap bridging the playmat form to the interlocking puzzle piece form.

5 More Than It s Worth Spring 2011 Exhibition Piece: LOADED Nathan s work investigates physical expressions of value, reconfiguring familiar metrics by which we understand worth. The bowl shape provides a familiar lens through which we can compare the physical aspects of $20 worth of sugar to $20 worth of DVDs. - Core77 Description Exhibition Pieces Additional Info The physical totems of value are being left behind as currency becomes digital and abstract. This series of decorative bowls was made by melting and drip-casting objects of consumer value in order to reveal their material value if any remains at all. Each piece is made of $20 worth of material. Part of LOADED. Exhibited at Spazia Rossana Orlandi, Milan and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. More Than It s Worth has been featured by online magazine Domus and blog Core77. The website for LOADED is Images: (clockwise from top center) $20 Worth Quarter Bowl, $20 Worth Sugar Bowl, $20 DVD Bowl, $20 Nickel Bowl, More Than It s Worth on display in Milan

6 More Than It s Worth Spring 2011 Exhibition Piece: LOADED Nathan s work investigates physical expressions of value, reconfiguring familiar metrics by which we understand worth. The bowl shape provides a familiar lens through which we can compare the physical aspects of $20 worth of sugar to $20 worth of DVDs. - Core77 Initial Sketches & Modeling Description Exhibition Pieces Prototyping Fabrication The physical totems of value are being left behind as currency becomes digital and abstract. This series of decorative bowls was made by melting and drip-casting objects of consumer value in order to reveal their material value if any remains at all. Each piece is made of $20 worth of material. Part of LOADED. Exhibited at Spazia Rossana Orlandi, Milan and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. More Than It s Worth has been featured by online magazine Domus and blog Core77. Prototyping in wax, plastic, and sugar done by hand. Prototyping in metal and DVDs done in partnership with Chicago Crucible LLC. The final die form was machined out of Medex via 3-axis CNC router. This wooden pattern was both used to sandcast the final die out of cast iron, and as the die for drip-casting the sugar bowl. Prototype Development Prototyping was done in quick-setting EasyFlo 120 plastic and foundry wax in order to simulate drip-casting molten metals. Final Pieces in Exhibition Drip-Cast Prototyping Each quantity of coins was melted with an oxyacetylene torch and drip-cast by hand over a cast-iron die.

7 LOADED Structural Design Tabletop Ideation CAD Drawings Spring 2011 Collaborative Exhibition Design Description The LOADED exhibition needed to be capable of being broken down, packed into crates, flown overseas and reassembled on site. Collaboration The final table was a collaborative effort among designers Daniel Whiteneck, Jordan Morrell, Stephen Gulau, Ryan Chorbagian, Brian Anderson, myself, and the instructors Jim Termeer and Helen-Maria Nugent. Individual My role was to design and construct the structural components of the table, as well as the shape and nature of the final table surface. CAD A digital model of the table elements was created in Rhino 3D. Rhino was used to lay out the tabletop and framing plan. Adobe Illustrator was used to create build and assembly drawings. Assembly Drawing Fabrication & Test Fitting Exhibition at Spazia Rossana Orlandi, Milan

8 CTA Station: Division Station Touchpoints Fall 2010 Multidisciplinary Speculative Project Description Objects CAD The CTA was seeking proposals for a redesigned station at the current site of the Division Blue Line station, which would serve as a transfer point for a new proposed Circle Line. Ticketing/Wayfinding Kiosks and modular Turnstiles designed to be simple, adaptive to user needs and easy to understand. Digital models created with Rhino 3D. Renderings created with Maxwell. Final renderings and drawings created with Adobe Creative Suite. Context Station Entrance (top), Circle Line Platform (bottom) - Architectural Renderings by Françoise Schmid and Lindy McAra

9 CTA Station: Division Station Touchpoints Fall 2010 Multidisciplinary Speculative Project Progression of the Touchless Kiosk design through 4 deliverable presentations. Stage 1 Scale model, matboard Stage 3 Rhino model, screenshot Final Stage Rhino model, Maxwell render, Photoshop composite Features Freestanding Design can be installed at any location in and around the station. Physical Currency Apertures to accommodate those who cannot or choose not to use touch-and-go RFID technology Touchscreen incorporates motion sensing and RFID technology to automatically respond to patrons approach with an appropriate screen based on their use history. Ticketing and Wayfinding services are both incorporated into the user interface Stage 2 Rhino model, Maxwell render

10 Five Minute Clocks Spring 2010 Giving Thoughtful People Time To Think Ideation and development of timepieces that measure time in 5-minute increments. Hand sketches, paper and cardboard models, looks-like models, digital renderings. The Essential uses a batterypowered analog mechanism to only show what you need to know. The Modern combines analog hands with a digital display, combining tradition with technology in a nod to the development of the time The Abstract features an all-digital color display that shows you the time with shapes, not words. It cycles through a rainbow of six vibrant colors (Violet, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange & Red) 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15

11 Z Room Divider A modular, dynamic & customizable room divider Spring 2010 Knockdown Furniture Initial ideation, hand sketches, cardboard models and final digital deliverables. Rhino model Last Page Home Rhino model, Maxwell render