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Monday, September 21, 2009

Nick Bajzek

Delta’s Design Challenge

Sep 21 2009 8:50AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (175) |
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By Nick Bajzek

Last month I attended a reception at the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Oak Park, IL for the Delta Design Challenge. Details from the contest, which was conducted in conjunction with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s design students, can be found here.

One of the winners of the design challenge, Garrett E.B. Smith, was kind enough to give me a few minutes of his time to talk about his winner: the Delta Dreidel. In his statement of intent, Garrett wrote:

“Delta's Dreidel repurposes a ball valve by taking advantage of its formal and material characteristics. The punched holes, necessary for the ball valve's original purpose, act as symbols during play that coordinate with letters from the Hebrew alphabet: nun (a player does nothing), gimmel (a player takes the whole pot), hey (a player takes half of the pot) and shin (a player puts one piece into the pot). During each round a player puts one piece, traditionally coins, into the pot as one player spins at a time until the whole pot is won and a new round begins. It spins beautifully as a top, and with its augmented flat surfaces on the ball and spindle it lands perfectly in place to reveal the player's next move.”

“The first time I spun a ball valve it was fast, loud and beautiful. I knew something special was there and I had to keep going with it. I decided to base my project on a ball valve before I even knew what I was going to do with it,” says Smith. Working with the constraint of such a specifically engineered object was a challenge, he says, but that’s "What made it so fun.”

As for his plans after school? Garrett’s not sure, but if any designers are reading this, pay attention: “I’m torn between entering the professional world or going to graduate school,” he says, adding, “I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface, but I’m very excited to see where I will take my career in design.”

Delta's Dreidel can be seen at its best, in motion, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettebsmith/ or on this very attractive PDF

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