Metaproject , the student challenge created by designer and Rochester Institute of Technology professor Josh Owen, is back again for another round. Last year’s focus was on using glass in partnership  with the  Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) , but this year, Owen partnered up with hip New York-based company Areaware to present the students with the challenge of working primarily with wood and creating contemporary wooden toys geared toward adults. Areaware, who distributes some of Owen’s own designs , has had great success with its wooden products, like David Weeks’ jointed toys . Throughout the semester, students researched wood and examples of culturally specific historical and contemporary toys to define the meaning of Universal Toy.

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Metaproject 03: Areaware Wooden Toys

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I thought it might be fun to follow around a student designer to get a better idea of what it’s like to be a design student these days (or a student in general!). Pratt Institute Industrial Design student Casey Daurio, who graduates in 2013, gladly offered us the opportunity to peek inside his everyday world. Let’s follow him around on the exciting occasion of Pratt Institute’s 125th anniversary celebration: I start my morning by having a cup of tea on my balcony in Willoughby Hall on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus. The view is great and it makes for a good start to the day. Before leaving the residence hall, I grab my essentials and make note of my scheduled daily meetings.

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Designer Dailies Student Edition: Casey Daurio from Pratt

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Asterisk is a puzzle stool created for children by Canadian industrial design student, Christina Sicoli . Made from 17 interlocking pieces, the stool assembles with no tools making it easy for kid’s to put together and take apart.

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Asterisk: A Children’s Puzzle Stool

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The thesis project of Swedish student Eddi Törnberg heads in a direction that should be noted. Unplugged is an office that facilitates producing the energy needed to run all of our office electronics through doing everyday activities. Based on the quote “Human nature is above all things lazy” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Törnberg’s thesis came from the belief that society as a whole lacks “the will, interest and energy to struggle to achieve a sustainable society.” So instead, Törnberg created a way around it by deriving energy from things we already do and, since we spend so much of our time working, it’s kind of brilliant.

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Energy-Producing Workspace by Eddi Törnberg

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Sina Sohrab is a furniture design student at RISD and she recently finished up a project — a box comprised of two walnut square antiprisms that result in changing silhouettes. Nice work. I’d love to see this reworked into furniture or housewares.

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Antiprism Box by Sina Sohrab

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