Design Work.
by Erica Schwartz Located in Brooklyn, NY erica@designerica.com 516-996-3228
Product Design.
Corset Chair Original chair concept. Conceived to appears as one continuous steel tube with hammock-style seat and back. The frame flexes as the sitter reclines, though the sitter never comes in contact with the metal frame. Prototype executed in Denmark.
Button Chair Modern Folding chair with furniture design icon Charles Pollack
Picnyc Table Modular Table for sustainable concept restaurant. Made from bamboo, slate, soil and fresh herbs. Planters lift out to reveal storage space for supplies.
Patterned Tableware A five-piece set of ceramic dishware including dinner plate, salad plate, bowl, saucer and mug. Each piece is accented with a different variation of an original pattern that I designed. Developed using Adobe Illustrator and Solidworks.
Arch Flatware Set Arched handles make flatware easier to grasp. Vertical knife prevents a messy table. Collection includes: dinner and salad forks, soup and tea spoons, butter knife, serving spoon, serving fork.
Mecha Tableware Collection Cast Ceramic tableware with gear-inspired edge details. Includes oversized dinner plate, salad/dessert plate and bowl. Shown with Arch Flatware.
Demitasse Set Glass and Steel Demitasse Hot Beverage Set with various tray concepts. With SM Grotell.
Hip2BSquare Coffee Service
Creamer unstacks from sugar...
Ceramic coffee service with low-gloss white and highgloss black or metallic glazes. 50 oz. coffee pot, four 12 oz. mugs, sugar, creamer, tray, and two lids. Lids feature depressed handles. Creamer stacks on sugar bowl.
off-center handles & spouts
Crinkle Tableware Formal dinnerware collection. Porcelain or bone china dinner plate, salad plate, soup bowl. Edges finished with 24K gold paint.
Queen of Clubs Flatware A modern take on traditional flatware. Collection includes salad and dinner fork, butter knife, soup and teaspoons. Stamped stainless steel, gold plated. Handles feature a sillhouette shamrock shape with interior cutouts resulting in a lightweight sophisticated modern appearance.
Mid-Century Inspired Serving Set Matching serving spoon with pour spout and serving fork in cast stainless with natural wood handles. Matching turned wood serving bowl with removable steel strainer insert. Nesting Section
Atomic Egg Vessels Collection of eight serving vessels. Each of four pairs is comprised of a footed wooden bowl and a ceramic vessel that nests on top and doubles as a lid for the bowl. Includes a small and large ceramic dish and a small and large ceramic pitcher and wood bowls in four sizes.
Nesting Section
Wrapped Dishware Set of square ceramic dishes with subtle raised detailing. Dinner plate, salad/ dessert plate, bowl.
Coasters, Trivets, & Wine Charms Various designs for laser cut bamboo coaster sets and trivets. Trivets also function as wall art.
Kitchen Tools For Trudeau
Cut & Serve Citrus Reamer Reamer attached to handle with free-spinning silicone seed catcher.
Bagel Slicer Designed to allow people to easily slice various sized bagels into accurate and thin slices using a regular knife.
Foldable Cutting board with four bowls (two with holes). Easily cut ingredients, scrape into a container, remove to rinse or leave in to serve.
Utensils Kickstand Utensils Cooking utensils with built-in kickestands to keep the mess off the counter. For Trudeau.
Metal Choplery Slide-apart silverware becomes a pair of chopsticks. Brushed Stainless with polished ends. For DesignGO
Modular Ice Cream Tool An Auger is a tool used for boring holes in the earth. When ice cream is too hard, convert your scoop to an Ice Cream Auger. For Trudeau.
Pet Products
with Peter Pracilio for DesignGO Studio
Elevated Bowls Spun aluminum with silicone edges.
Pet Crate Created 3D model, renderings and execution drawings. Above: Rendering. Left: Photograph.
Phony Bone Silicone refillable dog bone toy.
Food Dispenser Makes dogs expend physical and mental energy to obtain food.
Single Strap Backpack Original handbag concept with adjustable strap, unique closure method, and interior detailing.
Desk and Mantle Clock Concepts with SM Grotell for Chelsea Clock
Art Deco “Floating” Clock Concepts with SM Grotell for Betteridge Jewelers. Metal with a variety of inlay options.
Clock Concept Sketches
Accessory Design.
DESiGN ERiCA Original 3D printed Jewelry more at: designerica.com
DESiGN ERiCA Original 3D printed Jewelry more at: designerica.com
Watches for Tiffany & Co.
Bracelets for Betteridge.
Jewelry, Watches, and Clocks with SM Grotell Modern Dial Collections for Chelsea Clock
5K Kite Diamond Ring for FD Gallery
Grotell Collection One-of-a-kind platinum, diamond, and stone lidded watches with handmade lids by various artists. With SM Grotell, sold through FD Gallery
Wintour Watches Customer approached us to design a watch with a container of loose diamonds. Original Watch design including case, bracelet, caseback, crown, clasp. With SM Grotell
Ring Watch with SM Grotell for The Grotell Collection sold through FD Gallery. Left: Actual product Below: Drawings
Clocs A line of watches made from a foam similar to crocs shoes, designed to work with jibbitz. Crocodile-inspired packaging. With SM Grotell Design for a private label client.
Lapidary Bracelet with SM Grotell for Betteridge Jewelers Below Left: Actual Products Below Right: Renderings from 3D Model.
Diamond & Lapidary Bracelet Design With SM Grotell for Betteridge Jewelers. Above: actual product. Below: rendering from 3D model.
Lapis Sugarloaf Bracelet Concepts For SM Grotell Design for Raymond Yard.
Ring and Watch Concept Sketches
Bracelet Digital Concept Sketches for SM Grotell for Private Client
Patterns & Graphics.
Original Pattern, colorway study.
Original Pattern in four colorways.
Original Pattern in five colorways.
Original Pattern in five colorways.
A family of four original patterns in a single colorways.
The same four patterns in an alternate colorway.
Graphics and Branding for DESiGNERiCA Jewelry logo, tag line, signage, business card, promotional postcard.
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Acupuncture of Greenlawn LLC Logo Design based on 5 Elements Graphic (below)
Below: a few logo concepts Right: Final Business Card Below Right: Business Opening Announcement
Acupuncture of Greenlawn PLLC Matthew E. Greenberg, M.S, L.Ac. 10 Naples Lane Greenlawn, NY 11740 516-987-4158 matthew.greenberg@yahoo.com www.acupunctureofgreenlawn.com
Brooklyn Above, Paris Below
AN UNDERGROUND DINNER CLUB
Friday 10.12.12 7:45pm
Brooklyn Above, Paris Below
AN UNDERGROUND DINNER CLUB
Friday 10.12.12 7:45pm
un apéritif... french 75
un apéritif... french 75
le pain... bouquets of baguettes
le pain... bouquets of baguettes
le fromage et terrine de lapin... boards of brie de maeux and tomme de savoie with rabbit and cornichon terrine
le fromage et terrine de lapin... boards of brie de maeux and tomme de savoie with rabbit and cornichon terrine
les verts.... autumn greens with apples, beets and pears in champagne vinaigrette
les verts.... autumn greens with apples, beets and pears in champagne vinaigrette
le plat principal... bordeaux des st. emilion boeuf de bourguignon root vegetable bechamel gratin, oven-dried tomatoes
le plat principal... bordeaux des st. emilion boeuf de bourguignon root vegetable bechamel gratin, oven-dried tomatoes
le dessert... profiteroles- - ganache - concord grape whipped cream
le dessert... profiteroles- - ganache - concord grape whipped cream
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Logos, Signage and Promotional Graphics for The 119 Society, 119 Underground, and 119 Upstairs.
Promotional Infographic for Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Created using Adobe Illustrator.
Contact Me. Erica Schwartz 119 Jewel St. 2R Brooklyn, NY 11222 erica@designerica.com 516-996-3228