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Earbud
Hygienic Travel Earbuds
This project began by deconstructing and analyzing a pair of Apple速 earbuds to understand standard construction. I moved beyond the initial assignment to analyze the existing earbud market and develop an appropriate design response. 2 // Hutker
Existing Part Analysis
The main housing is injection molded in a four part tool; knockthroughs shell out the complex interior, which sandwiches the speaker with the lower casing. The gray injection molded insert in the back of the main casing hides the gate, while the speaker wire is threaded through the back of the main casing and is tied in a knot to act as a strain relief for the contacts. Hutker // 3
Earbuds in Transit
User Experience
Earbuds appeal to commuters or casual listeners as they are discreate and portable. I encountered multiple ‘fixes’ users developed to protect their earbuds from dirt and damage while in transit.
Target users are commuters on public transportation and people who use their earbuds in public places. Every weekday 35 million people board public transportation in the US. There aren’t many current products that address this issue directly.
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Current Earbud Market
Market Development
Fashion
Audiophile
Ergonomics
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Earbuds have become more and more specialized to distinguish themselves from competitors. Mature markets have become saturated with a wide variety of designs. For example, the ‘fashion’ market has already been saturated with competitors, leaving little room for products to distinguish themselves.
SPECIFIC
This is an area of potential opportunity as there are few solutions for keeping earbuds clean and hygienic in travel or storage situations. Hutker // 5
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My concept began to focus around an elastomer cover that would protect the tip of the bud, the part that is inserted into the ear, while not in use. This ‘hood’ can flip back and reveal the tip allowing it to be inserted into the ear canal.
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Earbud In use
Protected Eartips
Elastomer Cover Casing Cap Speaker Tension Relief Knot Contacts
Control Drawing 8 // Hutker
The rubber tips protect the speakers and ear canal from damage and dirt. They can be molded in a variety of colors and textured patterns for users who are interested in the ‘fashion’ aspect of listening in public.
Design Solution Hutker // 9
Paring Knife
Redesign of the Traditional Pairing Knife
PAIN POINTS This knife is a submission for the Syracuse University Junior Prize Design Competition. Traditional paring knives are not designed to perform the rolls that contemporary users need them for.
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If the blade and handle are flush with each other, the user’s hand will hit the counter before finishing the cut.
Thin paring knife blades do not allow condiments to be scooped or spread well.
Wet cuts or ones that require a lot of force can be dangerous if the user’s hand is not protected from the blade.
Bob, a professional blade sharpener, uses only one knife in his kitchen.
Existing Knife Market
User goals
There is a wide range of paring knife designs for a variety of specific tasks. There are few contemporary-looking designs. I drew inspiration from the elegant offset handles of the Christofle Recto Verso tableware.
“Sometimes I just use one knife to make a sandwich; I don’t want to keep switching knives.” -Carla
“I don’t like to keep on switching between knives. You end up having to clean too many of them.” -Bob
Contemporary cooks are using paring knives as omni-knives, they are no longer confined to their intended purposes. When using only one knife there’s less for the user to and deal with; it’s a smaller cognitive commitment to use and clean.
Brief
“A simple knife that is easy to use, quick to clean, and can make almost any cut.” Hutker // 11
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The offset blade to the inside of the handle emphasizes the simplicity of the knife being composed of only a blade and a handle.
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The angle between the user’s hand and the cutting edge allows a more powerful cut, while also preventing the user’s knuckles from hitting the cutting surface.
Form Development
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Further Development
I continued to develop two of my designs further: the conservative blue version and the bolder orange one with a handle long bevel that carried through the blade.
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Gray Anodized Stainless Steel
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Design Solution
The design is a direct response to the users’ pain points of paring knives in contemporary kitchens. The thick blade scoops and spreads condiments easily, while the back curve of the blade prevents the user’s fingers from sliding down the handle onto the cutting edge. Hutker // 15
RETREAT HOUSE Sustainable Summer Retreat
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The retreat house is a competition entry for Hutker Architects in the Progressive Architecture Design Awards. This was a ‘concept 3’ pitch to a client that was never developed. I took the concept, developed it, and created a submission from it. We won one of the four top awards.
The site is located on the northern shore of Cape Cod; it looks out from atop a 160 foot drop to the sea. This summer house is built at the edge of the precipice. As Atlantic waves eat away at the bluff the house retreats inland.
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The program of the house is a summer retreat for a retired businessman and his large extended family. My design focuses on flexibility in living spaces, allowing both immediate family and relatives to fill the program comfortably; the built-in furniture in the reclaimed boxcars can be reconfigured as family needs change over generations.
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As the house is pulled back from the bluff by large winches, the foundation materials are recycled backward to continue support of the house. Brise soleils and shutters double as decking in the summer months, and are designed to maximize passive solar gains as well as protect the summer retreat in the harsh winter months.
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Emissions
Direction
Design Research
The Syracuse metropolitan area produces more CO2 percapita than two thirds of the nation’s largest 100 cities and is one of the 25 worst areas for transportation in America. We chose to look at this issue from a systematic approach by examining the interactions between the current economic, residential, and infrastructural systems in Syracuse.
This assignment charged our small team with creating background research and direction for a hypothetical design firm that would design a solution to reduce vehicle emissions in Syracuse, NY.
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To examine the interconnected systems of infrastructure we combined existing data, our own observations, and responses from our cultural probe to create maps of the county. We mapped solutions and precedents of communities harnessing existing infrastructures to encourage alternate forms of transportation between areas of high density (where most travel occurs).
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We interviewed members of the community, researched precedents, and took many field trips throughout the county to get a more complete understanding of the systematic issues and existing solutions. , .
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The design brief we generated for the hypothetical design firm proposed reviving the abandoned railways, canals, and factories of the area to support and challenge the county’s existing infrastructure.
“Connect Economic and residential centers by revitalizing disused infrastructure with current technology.� Design Tool
Or research and analysis was organized in a box that we would give to the hypothetical design firm. The material is organized into progressively smaller envelopes, enabling multiple designers to access it at the same time. The envelopes also allow the research to be used as a mind mapping tool; they can be pinned up, re-organized, consolidated or cross-pollinated.
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GreaseWick
Kitchen Grease Lamp
Small Scale Cooking Oil Waste
This project looked at upcycling the man-made resource of waste kitchen grease; most of it generated at a small scale is thrown out. My concept centered around creating an easily adaptable way to upcycle this waste product.
Waste oils produced at a large scale in factories or restaurants are often recycled and used to feed livestock, make soap, detergents, or bio-diesel fuel.
Domestic Uses (candles or fireplace starters) Reuse in Kitchen (lubricant or seasoning)
Waste
“I save bacon grease in a can to season my popcorn, but I end up throwing a lot of it away.� -Larry, 75
What do users do with waste kitchen greases and oils? 24 // Hutker
They throw them away. In the US alone, annual brown grease food waste is thought to be billions of gallons. In a 2009 study, the city of San Francisco found it produces 10 million gallons of grease per year. San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2009
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Current Waste System ‘Common Knowledge’ recommends collecting waste grease in a disposable container until it cools, then throwing it in the trash.
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Our simple and elegant candle will fill your home with warm light and soothing scent. The FURTHER candle base is crafted from purified waste grease and features the same signature of bergamot, olive and exotic grasses found in our hand soap.
Further soaps and candles made from upscale restaurant waste. FURTHER HAND SOAP will not only leave your hands
Design a countertop vessel, which collects waste grease that it can use as fuel for light.
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There are few standards for repurposing waste kitchen grease.
Traditional Kerosene lamps only work with fuels that are more purified than waste grease. Hutker // 25
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Kitchen grease is thicker than kerosine so the wick must be as close to the fuel as possible; a ‘boat’ that floated on the surface of the liquid sustained a flame. The original prototype was made from a Miller bottlecap. Mylar or similar semi-
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Going beyond the initial assignment, I enlisted the help of a ceramics student to help me make a mold and cast prototypes. Hutker // 29
The GreaseWick lives in the kitchen, gradually collecting waste oils and greases. A lid covers the top to prevent any smells or drops from getting out. At any point the GreaseWick can turn into a lamp, a mylar light screen rests on the outer rim. The floating wick will burn until the fuel is exhausted.
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Manufactured Stories
Senior Thesis
My research explores the value created in the relationship between object stories and their users.
How can we design unique, meaningful, and personal stories into manufactured products? can these stories affect the way users interact with products? 32 // Hutker
Substances can be duplicated but history can not. We will always value and desire to be in contact with the essence of an original. The stories and provenance of an object create its essence, which consumes the physical nature of the object embodying those intangible concepts.
There are several spectra that can describe an object story; an object story can exist anywhere on these three axes. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m interested in exploring how we can encourage, preserve, and celebrate these rich narratives through design. Hutker // 33
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Object Stories are about Relationships
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I’ve collected personal stories about possessions with sentimental value; the kind of objects that give users joy when they use them or look at them. Although there has been a wide range of responses, all of these stories seem to describe a relationship with ourselves or another person. These possessions connect us to who we were and who we want ourselves to be. They embody the bond we share with another person through the provenance of that object. The provenance of a possession consumes its physical properties and existence.
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Everyday Souvenirs
This design experiment is based on my thesis. While looking to give stories to objects, I decided create objects from experiences.
1 These objects are be generated from stories and relationships, becoming souvenirs of everyday happenings. An array of sensors are attached to various objects, surfaces, and people; they record sound, vibration, movement, temperature, light, or any other data.
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The collected data is wirelessly transferred to a computer, which runs it through an algorithm, which generates a 3D shape.
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This model can be sent away to be printed or milled from a variety of materials. The examples below have been sent in and milled from a piece of Chestnut that the user found on a hiking trip.
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Raking leaves Pizza party Rainy day by the fire First game of the season
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EVAN HUTKER I want to create things
that people care about.
eahutker@gmail.com 508.274.4445
I’m a driven designer who loves the process of collaborating with others to create pure, elegant and meaningful designs. I come from a family of designers and I’m fueled by a desire to surround myself with good things and good people. 16 Sippewissett Rd. Falmouth, MA 02540
Education Work EXPERIENCE
Syracuse University Honors Program Tool. Inc. // Design Co-Op
Bachelors of Industrial and Interaction Design, 2012 (expected) Minor in Entrepreneurship GPA: 3.9
Practical Skills
Adobe Creative Suite Microsoft Office Suite Solidworks Photoview 360 Rhino Google Sketchup
Hand sketching Model making Woodworking Wacom Tablet Sketchbook Pro Corel Painter
About Me
Art & Design College Scholar (highest academic honor 2012) Dean’s List (2007-2011) 2 time winner of the Golden Gnome Design Award Outstanding Designer in Industrial Design (2009) Syracuse University Abroad London Program (2011) BSA Unbuilt Architecture Award (2010) SU IDSA student chapter treasurer (2008-2012) Peer advisor (2009-2010) 4th place international ROV competition (2007) Recovering Lego addict Born on Martha’s Vineyard 1 kg steak challenge (26 mins) Cheese fanatic Avid snow and water skier
Summer 2011: Product Design Consultancy, Marblehead, MA Designed a wide range of consumer products and point of purchase displays in a small team of designers for firms such as Staples and Wilson. Worked mainly on a Wacom tablet to generate concepts and develop them into final renderings.
Mechtronics Corp. // Design Co-Op
Summer 2010: Point of Purchase Display Design Consultancy, White Plains, NY Generated concepts and renderings for point of purchase displays for products made by Gillette, Duracell, Dr. Scholls, and P&G.
Rylaxing LCC // Design Consultant
2009 - 2011: Consumer Product Development, Syracuse, NY Redesigned the Rylaxing bed cushion to improve comfort and reduce production and shipping costs.
Hutker Architects // Design Co-Op
Summer 2009: Residential Architects, Falmouth, MA Developed content for HA’s book as well as designed and submitted a project to the BSA national design competition, and won one of four top awards.
Entrepreneurship in South // Consultant Summer 2009: Syracuse University Business Program, Capetown, South Africa Consulted disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the townships of South Africa with other students by developing bookkeeping, operational, marketing, and business strategies.