tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9915879159780003882009-02-21T08:03:03.433-06:00The design and news blog of Michael McDaniel. Michael a designer based in Austin, Texas.mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-46853592173081137162008-11-12T17:53:00.001-06:002008-11-12T17:53:56.889-06:00

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mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-10798995390479147042008-10-23T13:13:00.002-05:002008-10-23T18:18:24.243-05:00

Frog Design entered a charity event this past weekend called Barkiecture here in Austin. Each team had to design and build a dog house. The houses were placed on 2nd street here in Austin and auctioned off for charity through a silent auction. Our dog house sold for $200 to a nice older couple but the Barkitecture judges gave our house "best in show". I built our dog house in my garage last

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-11465898970727327202008-09-12T20:52:00.003-05:002008-09-12T20:55:57.330-05:00

A friend sent me a link to this site, www.stormpulse.com, since we have all been tracking Hurricane Ike here in Texas. It is a great site for hurricane tracking for sure.

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Looks like my shelter prototype is going to get a soft test as Hurricane Ike makes a beeline for us here in Austin. Galveston is already getting pounded by massive waves and landfall is still around 24 hours away.Just to let you know. The entire population of Galveston could be relocated to higher ground and housed in Exo shelter units for around 71 million dollars. That is no amount to sneeze at

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Another major hurricane is now entering the gulf. This time however it seems to be headed directly at Texas. Looks like the Exo prototype may get a soft test after all. I guess the media will not be too interested in this hurricane because it appears that it will miss New Orleans. The media abandoned the story of Hurricane Gustav after the landfall since New Orleans' levies held. Never mind all

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-51314561030067711642008-09-05T20:56:00.004-05:002008-09-08T21:25:41.536-05:00

The reaction housing system got dugg today! Please head on over to digg and digg it too. Let's get it noticed.

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-85884411226211018412008-09-01T02:46:00.004-05:002008-09-08T21:26:59.586-05:00

As you all know another massive hurricane is making landfall along the gulf coast almost exactly 3 years after Katrina hit the same area. Most of you also know that for 3 years now I have been hammering away in my spare time with my own designs for an emergency housing system to eliminate the mass population displacement and poor aid response we saw after Katrina. I have spent a lot of blood,

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-8764009048849563542008-04-19T15:20:00.007-05:002008-04-19T15:35:19.680-05:00

After almost 5 great years at fd2s, I will be joining frog design in May as a Senior Designer. I am very excited by the opportunity to learn new skills and face new design challenges.About frog design, inc.frog design, inc. is one of the world’s leading strategic-creative consulting firms. By identifying emerging market opportunities and transforming ideas into compelling product and service

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-61289961930555938572008-04-01T12:21:00.007-05:002008-09-08T21:29:51.630-05:00

After Hurricane Katrina couple of years ago I designed a rapid response, emergency housing system that can be reused over and over again that I named the Reaction Housing System. I thought it was a strong enough solution to actually pursue instead of leaving it to my sketchbook and computer. So for several years I have chased numerous politicians and disaster relief organizations in an effort to

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-71074798375575909652008-03-24T13:05:00.006-05:002008-03-27T20:50:40.681-05:00

I was doing a few updates to my portfolio pages this weekend when I realized that I never uploaded any video of my Otto driving system. So here is the YouTube upload of the DVD I made for that competition. You can see just the portion about the user interface on heads up display here.I designed/developed the Otto driving system concept for a Cooper Union competition almost two years ago called

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-78911310955936995092008-03-19T12:40:00.006-05:002008-03-24T14:51:08.989-05:00

The M. D. Anderson Donor Kiosk is finally nearing completion. The fabricator is wrapping up construction of the unit and the software developers have almost finished building the back end system to power the unit. Here are a few images of the physical portion of the kiosk coming together in the fabricator's shop along with a screen shot of the actual application up and running.

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-78595977072701476072008-02-26T15:52:00.006-06:002008-03-24T14:52:26.237-05:00

I just received my copy of the 2008 Step Inside 100. A poster I designed quickly one afternoon made it as Number 74 this year. I was a little disappointed that no shadowing was added to my image like the other posters so readers could see the die cut eyes and mouth of the jack-o-lantern on the poster. It’s OK though. I am once again in good company.

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-66473700647875571412008-01-07T11:57:00.000-06:002008-01-07T13:49:04.799-06:00

We received two early Christmas presents on Monday, December 17. Ruby Sinclair was born first at 2:35 PM and Charlotte Reeves followed 1 minute later at 2:36 PM. Ruby weighed 4 lbs. 15 oz. and Charlotte weighted 4 lbs. 5 oz. Sylvia is doing fine and the twins continue to get stronger. The girls will be in the NICU until they are able to take all their feedings by bottle. Thanks for all the

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-25865037522690727872007-12-03T12:36:00.000-06:002007-12-03T13:40:51.610-06:00

Work has been moving along on the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center donor kiosk since this summer, but now things are starting to wrap up. The kiosk should go live at M. D. Anderson in Houston, Texas sometime early next year. I designed the kiosk from conceptual sketches of the physical unit right down to the user interfaces. The kiosk is intended to engage visitors of the cancer center with various

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-1674776086744389472007-11-06T09:14:00.001-06:002007-12-03T13:22:35.245-06:00

I haven't been entering competitions for a while now mainly becuase my work is hard to catorgize with the traditional competition categories. I decided to enter the Step Inside 100 for the first time in a few years and actually got some work in! I entered two logos and a poster I designed this year. Two of three pieces are in the 100 for this year. Well, the poster is for sure and hopefully

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-35953557606963658052007-10-24T22:19:00.000-05:002007-10-24T23:21:24.683-05:00

Working at fd2s, I have done a lot work for Capital Metro over the years. 99% of that work was never implemented by Cap Metro. We (the fd2s Cap Metro team) literally redesigned the entire rider experience for the transit authority. We devised an experience lens by which Capital Metro could evaluate every project, operation and service they had. We created guidelines on what bus stops should be

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-18999257668351731992007-08-19T22:02:00.000-05:002007-08-19T23:24:23.791-05:00

The U.S. may get lucky with Hurricane Dean as its current projected path takes it into the heart of Mexico after ransacking the Caribbean. What would happen if it turned northward towards Texas and hit the U.S. directly? Would we be prepared now? It has been almost two years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall, but is our disaster response infrastructure any better? Would FEMA still respond to

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-1451520187382757152007-08-10T23:08:00.000-05:002007-08-12T18:51:43.644-05:00

The Butterfly Wall is a new interactive donor wall at the new Dell Children's Hospital in Austin, Texas that was designed by a team at fd2s. The clip below shows children playing with one of three animations I designed as part of that fd2s team. The wall is made by a company that makes interactive dance floors for night clubs and has a super low resolution. This is entire wall runs animations

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-83131413454772977322007-08-02T22:38:00.000-05:002007-08-23T20:25:24.249-05:00

Austin, Texas finally got it's own Pecha Kucha Night and I was flattered to be asked to present at the first show. If you are not familiar with Pecha Kucha, it is an event that was started in Toyko as a way for up and coming architects, artist, and designers to show their work. PK Night now spans the globe in cities such as London and Hong Kong. PK works like this: each presenter is allowed 20

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-80349653429578107612007-07-07T02:40:00.000-05:002007-07-07T03:11:12.781-05:00

Michael McDaniel has designed an identity for the disaster housing company, Refugia LLC of Austin, Texas. Refugia designs and manufactures rapid response, mass housing systems for disaster relief. The bold graphic symbol was designed by McDaniel to intentionally play up off of the first aid symbol. The grey background represents the bleakness of disasters. This dark square becomes the foundation

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Michael McDaniel's latest poster work has been selected to be included in the Graphis Poster Annual 2007. Not only will the poster be included in the hard back Poster Annual but it has won a Gold Award. Michael's poster was to remind fd2s staff of the upcoming Halloween costume contest and was part of larger internal company poster series at fd2s. The series was convienced and art directed by

mcdanyelnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-991587915978000388.post-37741706486095631872007-07-06T02:08:00.000-05:002007-07-07T02:18:34.995-05:00

Michael McDaniel and PJ Nidecker have designed a new identity for Twofish Inc. of Redwood City, California. Twofish is an electronic currency exchange company serving the video and online gaming communities. The new identity is now complete and being raidly adopted by Twofish.The new mark is a bold graphic symbol that quickly allows a viewer to verbalize the Two Fish name. The abstracted fish are

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