Thane Lochtie Product Design Portfolio
Thane Lochtie Designer’s Statement People love to shape their environments. Since the first stone tool use humans have been forming materials and creating objects. What does this mean to us today? With so much mass production, environmental problems, and careless consumption it’s become increasingly important to create a considered product. I’m driven by a desire for simplicity, sustainability, and minimal use of materials. Most importantly, I am interested in people. The ways in which people benefit from and interact with objects are endlessly fascinating and inspiring to me.
Outdoor Stool
Constraints: Using 24’ of wood and no metal fasteners, create a structure that will support 250 lbs.
Sketches
Materials: Douglas fir, glue, polyacrylic sealant
Slip Flask The Slip Flask solves the problem of weak flask cap attachments by reusing corks with little modification and it’s curved form allows it to be easily inserted and concealed in your waistband or pocket.
112% scale for slip casting (Polyurethane)
Final full-scale protoype (MDF)
Fiberboard prototype: foot too thin to suppport the heavy body
Second fiberboard prototype: still tippy despite thicker foot
Foam and cork prototype: uses cork to protect fragile ceramic flask
Orthographic drawings
Crutch Shot Glasses The Crutch Shotglasses encourage social interaction, increasing the connection between drinkers through dependency and the sharing of an action.
Vinyl cut logo (grey glaze).
Mood Board aesthetic
shot glass
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Inspiration was taken from natural materials like wood and white porcelain with a soft form and simple elegance.
Sketching
Problems and Redesign The first milling operation failed to complete the finishing cut (seen in the flat step over).
Packaging
Even without magnets, the bisqued shotglasses didn’t tip over while being filled. The area for the magnet is removed in the final design.
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Both pieces of plaster stock should be cast 8”x 8”x 2.75”
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Experimental Process: CNC Milling Plaster Molds ROUGHING CUT 0.5� flat bit 10,000 RPM 80 inches per minute 50% step over
FINISHING CUT 0.125� ball mill 12,000 RPM 120 inches per minute 15% step over
Spray water on plaster if milling produces dust rather than flecks.
Vacuum molds intermittently.
Change bit after roughing cut.
Manufacturing Instructions: Slip Casting Secure the mold with rubber bands or clamps. Mix slip for 20 minutes, pour into mold, and wait 40 minutes. Then flip the mold, pouring out the excess slip into a bucket. Wait another 50 minutes before opening mold. Be careful removing the pieces; if they are too wet they will tear along the parting line.
Use an xacto knife to trim the pour spouts while the pieces are still leather hard. Sponge over rough areas and round the lip.
Round the lips with scouring pads when the pieces are bone dry.
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Manufacturing Instructions: Firing & Glazing
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Glaze tests at cone 6 oxidation (left to right): Purple Colemanite Rutile Pink Steven’s Strontium
Tests at cone 10 with Blue Celadon glaze
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Load and fire piece on it’s side. 1.50 2.75
GLAZE FIRE: After bisque firing, mask the edges of shotglasses with tape. Glaze interior and lip in one of three variations.
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Lemon Soap Lemon juice has long been used for cleaning grime, deoderizing, and brightening cookware. With lemon-based cleaning as inspiration, these soaps are well-sized to fit comfortably in the palms of your hands.
Rubber Mold
Lemon drips juice under heat
Materials: GloryBee white soap with lemon extract and yellow colorant
Quotidian Collection: Altered/Discarded This sculpture was my first attempt to create a nested bookshelf. Though finger joints kept the pieces strong, the shelves were difficult to remove because they had friction and lacked a way to be pulled out.
This piece uses shelving and moldmaking to explore composition and display for a variety of consumer goods. Cast in plastic, these pieces are displayed as a collection, questioning the validity of the objects we deem worthy of collecting and calling a collection.
Niche Bookcase The Niche Bookcase system uses blue connectors that snap magnetically and provide space for fingers to pull out shelves. Parts are light and can be easily rearranged in a variety of ways.
Sketches
Final drawing
User testing of small prototypes
Prototype in use
Isometric drawings
Thank you
Thane Lochtie thane@uoregon.edu 971-409-3079