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Charlie Grisham is an artist and designer currently based between New York City and Austin, Texas.

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Shadow Puppet

Shadow Puppet is a desk lamp with an anatomical form. Made from 3D printed PLA and a vacuum-formed transparent PETG gobo containing a small steel ball bearing, an LED projects the shape of the puppet’s insides onto the surface below. The ball bearing rolls through the interior of the gobo, outlining its cavities and altering the shadow that it produces. The projected shadows place us directly inside of the puppet, externalizing the internal corporeality of its body like peering through an x-ray. The lamp is interacted with by gently pulling the limbs, which directs the ball bearing toward the different spaces inside, taking advantage of a fully analog interface, and mimicking the control of a marionette puppet.

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Ballerina (Work in Progress)

Work in progress stool made during the DIS Furniture Design program in Copenhagen. Ballerina is comprised of three parts that interlock without any hardware or glue, suitable for flat packing. This stool is 100% handmade in solid white ash, no CNCs or laser cutting. Further modifications coming soon...

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The Fortune Teller

The Fortune Teller is a small table that transforms familiar childhood iconography into furniture that packs into a flat, 2’x2’ square. The result is a fully diagrammatic object decorated with glyphs that subvert the traditional furniture assembly process. The need for instructions is bypassed as the table becomes a manual for itself, and building it becomes a puzzle... just like an origami fortune teller.

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Hydrant

Hydrant is a water bottle that can attach to fire hydrants. Comprised of hard ABS plastic and an internal flexible silicone adapter that can fit onto any fire hydrant spray cap in New York City, Hydrant utilizes the already-existing infrastructure of the city's 170,000 fire hydrants to create public access points for water.

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Steam House

A proposal for my Thesis Formulation class, where my goal was to create new functionalities using the untapped potential of byproduct steam from a tea kettle. My plan was to design an interconnected system for making tea that boils the water, waters the tea tree, grinds the leaves, and more. The system is connected with a series of valves, which allow for modular connection points so the user can rearrange components at their discretion, while also giving them a degree of control over the amount of steam at each point along the line.

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Spinal Alembic

Spinal Alembic is a functional lightning rod that combines structural utilities of the Ancient Egyptian djed pillar, the alchemical furnace of Hermetic origin, and the modern-day electrical insulator.

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Nitelvs cover art

A facade designed as cover art for producer Nitelvs, composed of plasticized acanthus leaves and baroque foliage ornamentation.

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First Blush

In an attempt to simulate and interact with imagery of the collective unconscious, five 3D printed sculptures were produced using artificial intelligence trained on thousands of artifact images divided into five categories: the Cup, the Scale, the Instrument, the Wheel, and the Weapon. Each object is embedded with a USB containing the First Blush software, which you can plug into your computer to view research, data, and other media content associated with the sculpture.

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Ish Couture 3D scan hologram

Hologram animation made from a 3D scan of rapper Ish Couture.

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Ish Couture logo animation

A performance VJ loop made for rapper Ish Couture, animating his logo in different materials.

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Jordana Iero 3D printed chestplate prototype

A prototype chestplate created for fashion designer Jordana Iero.

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Spectra

An editorial for my 3rd year undergraduate project TACT Magazine, photos are turned into sounds and then those sounds are recorded and turned back into photos, demonstrating a method to store image data within music and vice versa.

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Blah Blah Blah

An editorial for my 3rd year undergraduate project TACT Magazine, following a message between friends as it is lost in translation.

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Refract

An editorial for my 3rd year undergraduate project TACT Magazine, interviews and documentation of three fashion designers reconstructing garments from identical jackets.

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Delivery subscription ad for The Austin Chronicle

Advertisement optimized in 13 different sizes for print and web for The Austin Chronicle's newspaper delivery subscription service.

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Any Port in a Storm poster

Poster with image generated by AI trained on origami for Stefano Perrone's exhibition of oil paintings titled Any Port in a Storm at Jason Shin Gallery in Seoul, South Korea.

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Galatea campaign

Photoshoot for fashion brand Galatea.

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Panorizon

Second place prize-winning Panorizon theme in a Huawei/HONOR Global Design Competition, for the SmartWatch ES. The graphic is a 180 degree panoramic view of the sky flanked by the East and West horizons at either end, using a model of the Sun in linear movement to tell the time from bottom to top. When the Sun passes behind each horizon, it turns into the Moon and day turns into night.

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Sam Dubin business card

Mockups of a business card designed for singer Sam Dubin.

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A Haunted Evening poster

Poster and graphic illustration for a Syd and Associates Halloween party.

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The Beggar's Banquet by Sam Lewis

Photoshoot for fashion designer Sam Lewis's undergraduate collection "The Beggar's Banquet".

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Syrma

An editorial for my 2nd year undergraduate project Syrma, where we worked with fashion designer Stella Bergadano to illuminate the concept of anasyrma that inspired her collection.

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Under the Baton

An article for my 3rd year undergraduate project TACT Magazine, putting together a chronology of the interconnected key figures in the history of musical synthesis.

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Getlitenol poster

Pharmaceutical-themed poster and 3D art for a party at Cornell University's Redbud Cooperative.

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Muu Eppu ring 3D model

Rendering of a 3D model made for Muu's Eppu ring.

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Blood Rave poster

Poster made for the vampire-themed Blood Rave at Cornell University's Redbud Cooperative.

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Pearl St. Snow-op poster

Poster for a winter-themed party at the University of Texas's Pearl Street Cooperative.

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