Menges Lamp ONE

Check out one of my latest projects The Menges Lamp ONE! this fun upright reading lamp was designed to go in the same space as the Menges Table. It is a fun design with simple lines and uses the contrast of wood and metal in a balanced way.

more pictures at www.ONE84.com

 Its all about the details like how the plug in cord is designed to go through where the knot in the wood used to be.

The Menges Table

Here is a coffee table I just finished using a old iron window grate as the backbone to the design. the wood is walnut and most of the steel is 3x1 inch tube steel

7 DEGREE table

Menil Cafe is being built!

Hey everyone,

I was in the Rice Building Workshop studio last spring and we worked on a cafe design for the Menil Collection in Houston. The press release just came out that they are moving forward with the cafe, and it will be constructed in 2012. Check it out in the Houston Chronicle link below.

http://www.chron.com/default/article/Students-designing-Menil-cafe-2164588.php

Portfolio Updated

Open publication - Free publishing - More 2011

After reviewing the first test print from Blurb, there were a few things I needed to change:

_Solid color blocks, like the previous cover show slight imperfections when printed
_Images that bleed across two pages are pinched in the middle, so you don't see the whole image very well. To counter I tried duplicating and separating the images to account for this gap.
_Rearranged the order of projects and edited/deleted a few things

Portfolio & other news

Been a while since I have posted anything. Recently I was featured on SuckerPunchDaily.com (http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/tag/jon-martin/) as well as Urukia Architecture and Design Magazine (http://www.urukia.com/hybrid-tower-jon-martin/) for my Hybrid Tower project in Steve's studio.

Kind of cool; I wasn't trying to get featured on Urukia (never heard of them), but they must have found my images from SuckerPunch and I got featured right next to Zaha.

I received my first copy of my portfolio today from Blurb. I like the quality of the book. There are a few things to change, but overall not bad.

Studio project

This was a 2.5 week urbanism project that will hopefully be shown during an exhibition highlighting our professors work along with some of our studio work as well. He is the current guest professor here. There will also be a lecture this Wednesday which I will post the link once it is put up online.