NEW YORK

A late update, but worth mentioning. I am in New York City for an internship with NOOKA. Being here for almost two months now has gotten me to rethink a lot of things in my day to day life and design. As complicated and dense this city is, it has inspired me to take my design style in a completely opposite way. Graphically and physically I have taken a much more minimal approach to the designs that I am working on and future work to come. There are so many layers to this city my eyes were not prepared to compute at once. 

The reason I am able to enjoy the my longest time away from California, is because I am designing for NOOKA. I have known and admired their watches for a long time that I decided to design a watch for a school project inspired by their STRIP belt. NOOKA ZIP is a watch with a closing mechanism similar to the STRIP that follows the design philosophy. When I sent this design to the jobs email at NOOKA, I didn't expect anything from it, just did it out of impulse. Two months later I get an offer to go to New York and intern for the semester. 

NOOKA ZIZM

Being up close to every product that they have produced and not produced, it has been a big influence to simplify and keep everything minimal. Its been a great experience and a nice beginning to my design career.