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Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus

Student
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Undergraduate Student

Department

BID Ind Design

Focus

Industrial Design, Crafts, Product Design

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I will be graduating in May from Pratt Institute with a Bachelors of Industrial Design. Before starting at Pratt, I completed a two-year traditional boat building program at the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, RI, after which I spent six years working as a boat builder/marine carpenter.
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I will be graduating in May from Pratt Institute with a Bachelors of Industrial Design. Before starting at Pratt, I completed a two-year traditional boat building program at the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, RI, after which I spent six years working as a boat builder/marine carpenter.

As a designer I am interested in physical interactions. We live in an increasingly digital world, where more and more physical objects are being replaced by on-screen apps and services. In general I think this trend is great because it allows us to make less stuff and use fewer resources. The thing I think we need remember is that humans have more senses that just sight and hearing. We love to touch, taste and smell things. We form emotional bonds with things when we can pick them up and hold them or run our hands all over them. We love the smell of a new leather bag or the soft warmth of beautifully finished wood. We crave the visceral experience of something real. The fact that we interact with fewer and fewer physical objects increases the importance of those objects that we do interact with.

When I design an object, I ask why is this thing needed? How is it going to work? How is it going to look? How is it going to feel? Most importantly though, I ask how is the person interacting with this thing going to feel? Pleased? Amused? Fulfilled? Happy? Hopefully all of the above.
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Member Since: May 9, 2013
  • Eckto - Transportation Design
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
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    404
    Automotive Design, Drawing, Industrial Design
  • Summer Drawing Workshop
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    11
    632
    Industrial Design, Product Design
  • Lipton Sun Orb
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    13
    661
    Industrial Design, Sculpting, Set Design
  • Tentative Stool
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    161
    1748
    Crafts, Furniture Design, Industrial Design
  • Dental Mirror
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    6
    324
    Industrial Design, Product Design
  • Convexity
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    8
    446
    Industrial Design, Product Design, Sculpting
  • Drawings
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    1
    155
    Drawing, Industrial Design
  • Plant Light
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    13
    301
    Crafts, Furniture Design, Product Design
  • Laptop Case
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    20
    934
    Crafts, Industrial Design, Product Design
  • Kitchen Island / Breakfast Table
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    10
    314
    Crafts, Furniture Design, Industrial Design
  • Radio Alarm Clock
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    12
    422
    Industrial Design, Product Design
  • Cherokee
    by Robin Oglesbee-Venghaus
    20
    259
    Crafts
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