Flockjot Date: Spring 2011 Place: IIT Institute of Design Credits: Raph D’amico Time: 7 weeks Entice to Extend. Cheap to Expensive. Feasible to Ridiculous. We often explore insights by mapping them on two by twos. Flockjot lets distributed teams collaborate in real time to find the most meaningful axes.

Art Loop Open Date: Jun-Aug 10 Client: Chicago Loop Alliance Credits: Raph D’Amico, Joe Fleischhacker, David Kodinsky Time: 10 weeks Following in the footsteps of Art Prize, Art Loop Open is an art competition with a $50,000 purse and winners determined by public voting on over 200 pieces of art displayed around Chicago’s Loop. We [...]

Co-chair of the 2010 Design Research Conference Date: Sep 09-May 10 Place: IIT Institute of Design Credits: Raph D’Amico, Gene Young In its 9th year, the IIT Institute of Design’s Design Research Conference (DRC) is the leading professional conference on design research. DRC 2010 was the most successful yet, selling out at over 400 attendees [...]

Betacup Challenge Finalist: Champion Cup Date: May 10 Place: Independent project Credits: Raph D’Amico Time: 1 week Champion Cup was one of three runners up to the $10,000 top prize in the Betacup Challenge, out of 430 entrants. The challenge was to reduce the number of non-recyclable cups that are thrown away every year by [...]

Motorola ARMR Date: Spring 2010 Place: IIT Institute of Design Credits: Raph D’amico Time: 6 weeks Rugged phones have mastered toughness, but there is more to a construction site than a harsh environment: there is also a constant need for information and feedback. MOTO ARMR addresses this need. The assignment was to design an innovative [...]

Modular Grill Date: Spring 10 Place: IIT Institute of Design Credits: Raph D’Amico Time: 6 weeks The modular grill is a solution to the problem of small spaces, smaller kitchens and the observation that the size of grill you need depends on your situation; a college dorm-room has vastly different requirements to a dinner party [...]

Acanthus Intranet Date: Sep 07-Jun 09 Place: Acanthus Credits: Raph D’Amico, John Vaudin The Intranet allowed Acanthus to: – Track relationships with 6,000+ contacts at 1,000+ institutional investors – Track their investments in 1,000+ private equity funds – Manage our clients’ fundraising – Make it easy for nontechnical users to use and contribute to this [...]

Goose Island Scrap Yards Date: Fall 09 Place: IIT Institute of Design Supporting: Reenu John, Owen Schoppe Time: 1 day Photography to support research on the lives of scrap traders on Goose Island.