Kristin O'Friel is a designer, artist, urbanist, and environmentalist from Hawaii currently living in New York City. She loves to problem solve and is inspired and informed by everyday interactions. Kristin is passionate about cities, sustainable practices, and believes that things in general work better when the people who use them everyday participate in their design. She experiments with applications and physical interfaces that engage people with the world in novel ways. Her work aims to delight the heart, activate the mind, and reveal something about the world.
Like you, I have more ideas than I know what to do with. My favorite part of development is that first manifestation of a conceptual sketch into a tangible form. Here are a few projects that recently received a litmus test.
Kristin O'Friel
e: kristin.ofriel [at] gmail [dot] com
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NYC, US
Tag Your World
Ruxy Staicut, Stella Kim, Diego Rioja, Kristin O'Friel
Twitter, MakeCloud
(2009)
Social bookmarking for the world.
Pockets for the Rest of You
A hoodie with additional pockets sewn on, mapped to the hand positions of physical embraces.
Hopscotch New York City
Hopscotch is an urban
intervention that inserts play into the context of the crosswalk.
blog entry
VOTE NYC
Anaid Ortigoza / Celina Alvarado / Kristin O'Friel
Lasercut Paper Stencils, Tempura Paint, Paint Brushes, Excitement
(2004)
NYC block tags of voting poll site addresses.
The night before the 2008 election we tagged Alphabet City's curbs with the block's voting poll sites to help direct people leaving their apartments in the morning. If I were to do this again I'd go
with a more personal approach and target individual apartments - although this information should really be sent to all registered voters via email/SMS.
4-in-4 Day 1: Seagulls
4-in-4 Day 2: Pattern, Form
4-in-4 Day 3: Windows
4-in-4 Day 4: 3D Printing
5-in-5 Day 1: Food Pinwheel
5-in-5 Day 2: Molecular Tote
5-in-5 Day 3: Crocheted Plastic Bag
5-in-5 Day 4: Mesh
5-in-5 Day 5: Urban Tracings / Play Here
Cell Wall
3D printed garden wall scaffold.
A 3D printed armature that houses plant matter, converting barren wall surface into a garden wall. The pieces were designed with water channels to allow for top down watering of the entire structure.
flickr photo set
F7
Che-Wei Wang / Taylor Levy / Syed Salahuddin / Petra Farinha / Ameya Mhatre /
Alex Abreu / Kristin O'Friel
Fluorescent Ink, Acrylic Polymer, Brushes, Rubber Gloves, Electric Drill,
Blacklights, Bicycle, Skateboard
(2008)
A painted fluorescent environment to be explored under blacklight on a bike.
flickr photo
set
Weaving the City
Ribbon weavings around urban structures in New York City.
Inspired by
Knitta, a crew of bombers that tag the city with colorful knit, I
got a group of friends together to do a series of ad hoc woven installations. The installation technique is inspired by the maypole dance and requires a lot of
giggling.
