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Here are some examples of industrial design and fabrication, with a focus on process. This is all about problem solving. You need a part that functions in a specific way, but no such part exists. What do you do? Some of these are simple solutions to basic problems, others are weirdly specific multi-function parts that address some of the more complex issues that arise from building unique vehicles. Subtlety, elegance, and simplicity of design are always my goals.
Design for a brake bracket to adapt a three piston Buell brake caliper to a ¾ axle Harley wheel for more stopping power.
Buell three piston brake caliper mount for ¾ Harley wheel (with stay). Works a million times better than the chunky/ineffective stock setup.
Building a jig to heat form bends for a custom sissy bar.
The basic sissy bar, prior to decorative elements being added. I love building sissy bars. They are a simple solution to a simple problem, but one that can be addressed in a million different ways. There are no limitations but your own creativity.
This weird looking little item serves several purposes. It’s a chain guard, an exhaust mount, and it has a NPT brass oil fitting for the crankcase oil breather, oiling the chain with any oil mist from the case.
Here is what the chain guard/chain oiler/exhaust mount from the previous photo looks like installed. An important detail that will all but disappear once the exhaust is mounted.
Custom headlight bracket for a Sportster.
Ignition switch and starter button box built into the top motor mount on a chopper frame. A small detail, but one that serves several functions while keeping a low profile. A subtle element on a not-so-subtle bike.
Tail light/license plate side mount bracket. I’ve made a bunch of these for different applications.
Custom oil tank build for a super skinny Ironhead frame. This photo shows the mockup/pattern drafting part of the process, where I use cardstock and tape to rough out my design. You can see there are a number of elements here to work around. There is also a start on a seat pan mockup. You often have to think about multiple parts when designing, so that they all fit together in the end. Nothing drives me crazier than a design that solves one problem, only to create a larger one somewhere else.
Top view of the Ironhead frame with the frame mounts tacked in. You can see how skinny that frame is. The holes are for rubber isolator mounts that will thread into bungs in the top of the oil tank. Not a lot of wiggle room here.
Side view of the oil tank mocked up. There are still a couple of spots that need to be trimmed before it is welded up, but the main thing is that it fits the lines of the bike.
Another mockup photo with the exhaust added.
Combination motor mount/coil side mount bracket. If there’s an option that includes heat bending steel, that’s always my go-to.
Drawings for a Mikuni HSR42 choke cable relocation bracket. There are a number of products on the market that do something similar, but none of them work exactly the way I want, and I prefer to solve problems in my own manner.
The choke bracket with bungs fitted and installed on the carburetor.
Machining the choke knob out of aluminum round stock.
Exhaust bracket for a custom rubber-mount Sportster exhaust.
Custom brake stay designed to match the style of the frame. A small detail, but one I found particularly pleasing.
During Covid, we were playing board games to pass the time, and the miniature figures were so beautiful that I started making little houses and scenic elements so they had a place to live. There was no real purpose behind making these things. The quality of the tiny sculpts just made me want to create environments for them. For some reason (maybe the general “end of the world” mood surrounding Covid) I made them all ruined and dilapidated, or covered with skulls. These are largely made of Sculpy, Aves ApoxieSculpt, balsa wood, and epoxy putty. The observatory is based around an exhaust section from a 1981 Suzuki SP500 motorcycle.
The Fallen Tower
All of these pieces are designed so that their interior spaces are functional.
The Fisherman’s Shack at Shipwreck Rock
The Mud Hut and the Hanging Tree
The Ancient Pyramid, with 25mm miniature for scale.
The Observatory
The Altar and the Hill of Bones
The Poison Pool and various odd rocks
Some experiments with stop-motion armature design and casting resin with one and two part silicone molds.
Stop motion armature designs.
More stop motion armature designs.
One part silicone mold from two part Apoxy Sculpt master.
One part silicone mold from carved wood master.
Pair of two part silicone molds for two part resin cast from clay master.
I have written and illustrated various comics and graphic novels, including The Chicken Leg Bone Boy, Blood Will Out, and ParanoiaCritical 333. The following is “The deserters”, an unpublished sequence from Blood Will Out (Darkslinger Comics, 2020)
I contributed sculpting, set and prop making, and puppetry to this Japanther music video by Nightshade Productions. It was a super fun project and a super fun group of people to work with.
Short film shot on Super 8 in Seattle, WA in the summer of 1997. Hand held camera, hand spliced edits. All analog, no AI, just a bunch of kids trying to make something with meaning.
Title animation for ParanoiaCritical website. Made in CS3 Photoshop from scanned vintage materials and hand lettering.
Fetus? They hardly know us! Short animation (works better as a loop) made for no reason other than and idea I had of an electric baby representing the seed of inspiration. Made in CS3 Photoshop from scanned analog drawings.
When I was stationed at Aumundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica in 2005/2006, I shot what is to my knowledge the first and only stop motion film made at the South Pole. It was two minutes long and shot on a digital still camera with a wire-armature puppet built from whatever scraps and supplies were available. It was an official entry in the first annual South Pole International Film Festival.
Furniture and fixtures. Some are commission pieces, some are just things I made because I wanted to see them. I use CNC/plasma cutting, TIG welding, oxy-acetylene welding and heat forming, powder coating, and various other techniques and processes to deign and build these pieces.
Railing and gate built for a home in Portland. The owners removed the existing walls, but then had a safety hazard. This was welded and heat formed with an oxy-acetylene setup, which is a little unusual in this modern age. There is also a railing not visible in this photo.
With the gate open.
With the gate open and the railing visible.
The Saint Petersburg tables. I made four different variations of these, and designed (but never produced) a coffee table version. The steel base patterns and inserts were originally hand drawn, then tweaked in a CAD drafting program and cut on a CNC/plasma table. The table tops shown here are made from Douglas fir with multicolored leather inlay.
Custom motorcycle builds. Most of these started life as a pile of parts. I adapt from various years/models where I can and design and build parts when there is no existing part that does what I want it to, or does what I want in the way I want it to.
When I first built this bike, I was around a 1980 cone Shovelhead motor, a ratchet-top four speed, and an open belt primary. It has evolved over the years to include an Evo primary and five speed, (and eventually an Evo motor as well, before reverting back to the a Shovelhead in its current iteration), a Mikuni HSR 42, a ton of different custom parts (including the exhaust and nacelle), a remote oil filter and oil cooler, a Buell three piston rear brake, etc. This bike is always in motion, in every sense of that term. You can read about it in a piece I wrote for Gnarly Magazine by hitting the blog link.
1986 Suzuki Savage. These little bikes are pretty amazing once you get them tuned correctly. A real street ripper. I believe this one is currently in pieces in my brother’s garage in Alaska.
Evo chopper built for ARon Moxley. ARon brought me the (already painted by Matt Stanger) tank and fender along with a big pile of parts (some that matched, some that did not) and this is what we came up with. Can be seen ripping around Portland, OR.
A collection of designs commissioned for shirts, albums, packaging, brand imaging, and posters.
Shirt design for Gas & Grit.
Album art for Vox Hex.
Poster design for Pasadena Motorcycle Club’s annual Greenhorn Ride.
Library card designs for Cooper Landing Community Library in Cooper Landing, Alaska.
Shirt design for Darkslinger Comics.
Poster design for a Show Class Magazine release party.
Covid 19 commemorative tour shirt. I sold way too many of these.
Shirt design and branding for Ride 1K In A Day.
Shirt/Logo/Branding for Bridge City Cycles in Portland Oregon
Logo and shirt design for Iron Serpent.
