Industrial Design

Two alumni, Michael Newton (CCAD 1996) and  Jeremy Sorrell (CCAD 2004), will exhibit their work at Rivet Gallery in downtown Columbus, OH.

Sorrell, an Industrial Design alumnus, works as a contract concept artist and designer. His clients include Marvel Entertainment, LLC, and Express, Inc. His recent work features robotic characters done in ink and watercolor.

Six distinguished Columbus College of Art & Design alumni have been nominated for the 2011 Joseph V. Canzani Alumni Award for Excellence (AAE).

The nominees are Fine Arts alumni Roy Doty (CCAD 1942), Kate Rhoades (CCAD 2010) and Robert Tavani (CCAD 1985), Industrial Design alumnus Matthew Kaser (CCAD 1984), and associate alumni Nathan Greno (CCAD 1996) and Aminah Robinson (CCAD 1960). 

An invention by Industrial Design alumnus Peter Wachtel (CCAD 1990) has made it through Quirky’s curation, evaluation, and engineering phases and is now available for pre-sale on the community-driven invention production site.

Wachtel’s invention is STAKE, an all-in-one barbeque tool that functions as tongs, a spatula, or a fork. STAKE has been in the Quirky store since June 29 and has nearly 100 pre-sale orders. Once the product’s pre-sale threshold has been met, STAKE will move into production.

Industrial Design alumnus James Markle (CCAD 1970) presented a speech about his environmental photography at the Tahoe Art League, June 8.

An article in the Tahoe Daily Tribune detailed Markle’s career. “After serving in the military, Markle moved his family to Chicago where he earned his MA in Communications at Wheaton College. Over the next two decades, his career in advertising design and publishing provided a wealth of experience working with commercial photographers.”

Alumnus Peter Wachtel's e-readers are available on Lulu.com and Amazon.com.

Photo courtesy of The Springfield News-Sun.

Remember Industrial Design alumna Anousone Panyanouvong (2007) and her quest to win Microsoft’s “Make It Great” competition? Well, all her hard work (and your many votes) paid off in a big way this week when she was awarded $10,000 to make the New Year great.

Alumnus Tim Friar (CCAD 1988), owner of Grid Furnishings in Columbus’s Short North, was recently interviewed in the Columbus Dispatch’s weekly section Shop Talk.

Philip Foster (CCAD, '01), is the lead industrial designer for Callaway Golf in Carlsbad, CA.

Foster has first inventor patents on the FT-iQ driver, Legacy driver, the X-20 Tour irons, FT wide sole irons and X-22 Tour irons, which currently are available in the marketplace. He also is the lead designer for the next generation "X" irons, Diablo/Big Bertha irons, Diablo and FT hybrids, Diablo driver, FT driver, and some putters that will release over the next two years.