https://quincrumb.com Quin Crumb Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:03:34 +0000 https://quincrumb.com en https://quincrumb.com/5-months-in-44-days-1 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:12:07 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/5-months-in-44-days-1 5 months in 44 days Collection of Daily Poems and Collages <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19508de75bb5d88a04504d09ba6f6c77a92299dc36bcaa7d5d68b3f2d962818e/5months44days.png" data-mid="222060921" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19508de75bb5d88a04504d09ba6f6c77a92299dc36bcaa7d5d68b3f2d962818e/5months44days.png" /> This series of 44 poems paired with collages is a result of a routine based art practice of “daily collages” which ended up being more sporadic than ritualistic. The work within ranges in themes but finds cohesion in humor, honesty, and curiosity. You can purchase a physical copy of the book on the shop page here. Or read and download a digital copy here. https://quincrumb.com/Design-Thinking-1 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:06:15 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/Design-Thinking-1 Design Thinking BFA of Graphic Design Honors Thesis Design exists in a unique position among disciplines. It lives as an intersection between a variety of fields which are all involved in the process of producing things. Because of its intersectionality, design is a constantly evolving field. Or rather design should be constantly evolving. A critical inspection of design history will quickly reveal the stagnant nature of the principles that design has championed since the turn of the 20th century. Pragmatism, utility, economy, and efficiency have guided designers’ hands for a very long time. Design has become known as a field which solves problems. Designers are equipped to look at the whole picture of any given situation and arrive at the simplest most elegant solution. Design has been refined beyond the point of diminishing returns. So one would assume that after a hundred years of refinement designers would produce only the highest quality, most sustainable, useful objects. However a quick look around reveals that not to be the case. We live in a world full of planned obsolescence, environmentally damaging machines, and useless junk. In order to understand the shortcomings of design… (read more) https://quincrumb.com/Bosco-Saves-Christmas Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:49:51 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/Bosco-Saves-Christmas Bosco Saves Christmas Short Story for Art-a-Nooga 2nite Holiday Special <img width="1153" height="1153" width_o="1153" height_o="1153" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c53b25d9bc1fece2c08d5ecaf185899de160388b3f5459c714d989480a5aa9d6/Bosco.png" data-mid="208393497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c53b25d9bc1fece2c08d5ecaf185899de160388b3f5459c714d989480a5aa9d6/Bosco.png" /> Bosco was a squirrel. He lived on the side of the highway and huffed a crapload of gas fumes. His other squirrel friends had all been run over by cars during poorly timed attempts to cross the highway. So Bosco was pretty depressed. Being a squirrel he had been born with a small and rather smooth brain. His brain resembled a walnut without its shell when he was born; which is hardly a compliment. Though now his brain shared more resemblance with a walnut that had been deshelled using a sledge hammer. On the rare occasion in which Bosco moved one could audibly hear the bits of his brain rattling around in his head like a maraca filled with small gummy worms… (read more) https://quincrumb.com/Recent-Works Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:03:34 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/Recent-Works Woodfire Winter 2024 <img width="562" height="375" width_o="562" height_o="375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b6db4632afbd38a89e99a37c8725581de038b53bef7fd2d02953af8d05b06d4/Thumbnailadd_woodfire_ceramics-5.png" data-mid="228773333" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/562/i/1b6db4632afbd38a89e99a37c8725581de038b53bef7fd2d02953af8d05b06d4/Thumbnailadd_woodfire_ceramics-5.png" /> NYC Parking Ticket Project <img width="1080" height="669" width_o="1080" height_o="669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a811d274188b01a1e07810343dec7c0b0e22ee2a5eb2f19a7ee99338cc4e7d60/NYCParkingTicket8-1-24.png" data-mid="228774384" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a811d274188b01a1e07810343dec7c0b0e22ee2a5eb2f19a7ee99338cc4e7d60/NYCParkingTicket8-1-24.png" /> River Chair (broken(fixed))&nbsp; <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa01edcc0224767a529493ca0c8da6dbd62d812533c71bd22c54679df50416a3/RiverChair.png" data-mid="236416184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa01edcc0224767a529493ca0c8da6dbd62d812533c71bd22c54679df50416a3/RiverChair.png" /> https://quincrumb.com/Header-The-Way-Things-wink Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:29:02 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/Header-The-Way-Things-wink The Way Things Wink&nbsp;The ICA at UTC| Chattanooga, TN | 2021 Design has long championed practicality, efficiency, and clarity. Pragmatism has become naturalized to the point that it seems to be the only reasonable approach to design. Things around us work as they should: quickly and effectively. We rarely, if ever, take the time to acknowledge our relationship with these objects because they are designed to be invisible. They disappear. However, objects mediate human existence and define our perception of reality. Developing an approach to design that deviates from pragmatism and ventures into nonsense and absurdity allows me to leverage intuition, material experimentation, irony, and chance to inspect and reveal our relationships with the things around us. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0ee98aad962500ff4d7c1129ad3479350ece3646044f275248299faff12b27c/TheWayThingsWink-1.jpg" data-mid="180452710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0ee98aad962500ff4d7c1129ad3479350ece3646044f275248299faff12b27c/TheWayThingsWink-1.jpg" /> <img width="818" height="1000" width_o="818" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c75589976ee1fcdaa8523546fb25f3ab1f1c9321202c32fd4d038257be40509/GB_Splash-6.png" data-mid="183509912" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/818/i/1c75589976ee1fcdaa8523546fb25f3ab1f1c9321202c32fd4d038257be40509/GB_Splash-6.png" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89aec6a75acd86bbbf29abf3619140d95e5e0af395d846ed0e54dc2be7550b0b/TWT-5.jpg" data-mid="180452715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89aec6a75acd86bbbf29abf3619140d95e5e0af395d846ed0e54dc2be7550b0b/TWT-5.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b414273ed6704813d12a272fafe2678e6ffbbb10e2e72d0278753ba637009f6f/GB_Splash-4.png" data-mid="183509910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b414273ed6704813d12a272fafe2678e6ffbbb10e2e72d0278753ba637009f6f/GB_Splash-4.png" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c060f99bb0dea639fa18d1d5ef48734bde19297c8b2fac35b0eb6ac22abf810/GB_Splash-5.png" data-mid="183509911" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c060f99bb0dea639fa18d1d5ef48734bde19297c8b2fac35b0eb6ac22abf810/GB_Splash-5.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24587a920983da3aebfc0d8647e2e0be7eb00904c70f5c14dbc8bc1c818406e3/TWT-3.jpg" data-mid="180452713" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24587a920983da3aebfc0d8647e2e0be7eb00904c70f5c14dbc8bc1c818406e3/TWT-3.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/380c6c6d039ca50fc341f24edd048e55c5d577a7dbb4c0552e494dc2ae74d1fb/TWT-8.jpg" data-mid="180452718" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/380c6c6d039ca50fc341f24edd048e55c5d577a7dbb4c0552e494dc2ae74d1fb/TWT-8.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1011071e6c1c7876f3c03df4e2c3e0bc45d29530438dc0326bc5137671f2ac0e/IMG_8383.jpg" data-mid="183512586" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1011071e6c1c7876f3c03df4e2c3e0bc45d29530438dc0326bc5137671f2ac0e/IMG_8383.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13acbb38049d163f6577e85654e0e5fc56a415b8d6c858b75ec06c173b0586bf/GB_Splash-3.png" data-mid="183509909" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13acbb38049d163f6577e85654e0e5fc56a415b8d6c858b75ec06c173b0586bf/GB_Splash-3.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27ca47b61172f1463e20e2356c229ec85e730047ff8050d4b013f3e49ace46a7/TWT-6.jpg" data-mid="180452716" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27ca47b61172f1463e20e2356c229ec85e730047ff8050d4b013f3e49ace46a7/TWT-6.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d653548b295827ae5c2eefbb1811a64292b259492439680b666cecdc5496a65/TWT-1.jpg" data-mid="180452711" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d653548b295827ae5c2eefbb1811a64292b259492439680b666cecdc5496a65/TWT-1.jpg" /> https://quincrumb.com/IKEA-Nightstand Tue, 24 May 2022 17:14:48 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/IKEA-Nightstand HANDCRAFTED TARVA NIGHTSTAND FROM IKEAWhat allows IKEA to maintain authorship over object which they do not fully realize? Is it the mechanized fabrication of the materials, the exchange of money for the materials, the brand and deals IKEA promotes, or the idea alone? I have created my own copy of one of IKEA’s designs while removing all other points of contact with the company. The handmade copy becomes in itself unique and common; a copy which seems more original than what it is mimicking. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fdddea4a795b421f5acbe9f51d905e82360c9fad98168f4148ef14e2519bcb1/nightstand-4.jpg" data-mid="143538642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fdddea4a795b421f5acbe9f51d905e82360c9fad98168f4148ef14e2519bcb1/nightstand-4.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d49ec0c22cf73ea2461fdb1dbd9d19fb62d580f6f5e1220b8416bdf11ff3b0d/IMG_8810.png" data-mid="143538641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d49ec0c22cf73ea2461fdb1dbd9d19fb62d580f6f5e1220b8416bdf11ff3b0d/IMG_8810.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5121b04d86039de54fca44f9feacf7acfa96c0b9458872a5b52a55e4255553a/1nightstand-1.jpg" data-mid="143538640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5121b04d86039de54fca44f9feacf7acfa96c0b9458872a5b52a55e4255553a/1nightstand-1.jpg" /> <img width="2198" height="1614" width_o="2198" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db474947836095ddd9dc0a79426b0239daab8d6fda7f61d527470ac0a140d2e4/Screen-Shot-2020-09-16-at-10.24.38-AM.png" data-mid="143538643" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db474947836095ddd9dc0a79426b0239daab8d6fda7f61d527470ac0a140d2e4/Screen-Shot-2020-09-16-at-10.24.38-AM.png" /> https://quincrumb.com/SK8-LAMP Tue, 08 Feb 2022 03:45:41 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/SK8-LAMP Sk8 lamp The relationship between routine and ritual can seem tenuous at times while at other times they share an almost synonymic quality. I decided to explore this relationship through something that personally resonants with me simultaneously as a routine and a ritual. Skateboarding provided me a lens to create an object which exists as a contradiction to the routine action of turning on a lamp, while creating a ritual which is guided by a mundane task rather than religion or spirituality. I used materials related to skateboarding in order to construct the lamp and&nbsp; box such as steel, rubber, skateboard decks, and skate hardware. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1d7b29314908a7715f6762e6c5e76fd43d5a3d98869f8c76ce2c9fa0f3b7fed/Sk8Lamp-18.jpg" data-mid="132787592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1d7b29314908a7715f6762e6c5e76fd43d5a3d98869f8c76ce2c9fa0f3b7fed/Sk8Lamp-18.jpg" /> <img width="4038" height="2693" width_o="4038" height_o="2693" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7580b099b4ccff7f54370fae4503d858f72ae10d3725b782ee46669643a977f9/Crumb_Quin_Sk8-Lamp_Fall2020.png" data-mid="183510340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7580b099b4ccff7f54370fae4503d858f72ae10d3725b782ee46669643a977f9/Crumb_Quin_Sk8-Lamp_Fall2020.png" /> <img width="5680" height="3787" width_o="5680" height_o="3787" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9825617db82c59cb97632d9c163ba2fa323f59e1b3109fd26303aab49bc11f20/Sk8Lamp-17.jpg" data-mid="132787591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9825617db82c59cb97632d9c163ba2fa323f59e1b3109fd26303aab49bc11f20/Sk8Lamp-17.jpg" /> https://quincrumb.com/Love-Seat-Seesaw Tue, 24 May 2022 18:54:37 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/Love-Seat-Seesaw SEESAW LOVE SEAT Objects function as signs. When we see a love seat our brain codes it as a love seat first, relating it to all the other forms we understand as “love seat.” This allows us to move through a world of easily digestible facts. However, when we stop at this level we miss the aspects of objects which make them unique and valuable to us. I altered the functionality of my late grandfather’s loveseat in order to disrupt the objects recognition. The codes of a loveseat are still present. However rather than offering a place for to people to sit together with ease, the object challenges two people to balance in order to sit next to one another. <img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f22eef6c3fadd19d72018f34989dbe615ffefe885cf6f451f9294e8479ad0f48/twtw-11-2.png" data-mid="143544597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f22eef6c3fadd19d72018f34989dbe615ffefe885cf6f451f9294e8479ad0f48/twtw-11-2.png" /> <img width="2306" height="1538" width_o="2306" height_o="1538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c57771462d73b02fc92d048512628ba2a1ee56d1e3a904d460e7d79525a94cd2/twtw-28-2.png" data-mid="143544598" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c57771462d73b02fc92d048512628ba2a1ee56d1e3a904d460e7d79525a94cd2/twtw-28-2.png" /> <img width="720" height="405" width_o="720" height_o="405" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b906f3865d64f50d5062c0fb3c543d4e01a54cec3b9e2dcde73b90142f328fc5/Loveseat_optim.gif" data-mid="183511034" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/b906f3865d64f50d5062c0fb3c543d4e01a54cec3b9e2dcde73b90142f328fc5/Loveseat_optim.gif" /> https://quincrumb.com/Digital-Sketchbook Tue, 24 May 2022 20:26:32 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/Digital-Sketchbook DIGITAL SKETCHBOOK This sketchbook is the culmination of 100 days of drawings done using my laptops track pad with adobe illustrator’s paint brush tool. I printed and bound these digital drawings in the form of a traditional physical sketchbook. The digital sketchbook neither seems to be a book of prints or a true sketchbook. It exists in a state of tension between digital and physical spaces. <img width="2192" height="1461" width_o="2192" height_o="1461" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/138d19a25d6feaded5c1050328bd1d55eae094eadfc9f2db2679b21c1fb35ca6/Sketchbook-2_cmp.png" data-mid="143553946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/138d19a25d6feaded5c1050328bd1d55eae094eadfc9f2db2679b21c1fb35ca6/Sketchbook-2_cmp.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af2e3b66a2770d65026748ee9e232a7caf8eb3706f2cfe6607cc2e905a7e39e4/Sketchbook-5.jpg" data-mid="143553666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af2e3b66a2770d65026748ee9e232a7caf8eb3706f2cfe6607cc2e905a7e39e4/Sketchbook-5.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d17238b54f2772c659ee1b59864c226b39e9f258c5986d1e356cf029cdfb26c3/Sketchbook-9.jpg" data-mid="143554194" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d17238b54f2772c659ee1b59864c226b39e9f258c5986d1e356cf029cdfb26c3/Sketchbook-9.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc64a77a198e49315929dad77e85ce833e16a49176a54e935bf4366dbd22579e/Sketchbook-11.jpg" data-mid="143554196" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc64a77a198e49315929dad77e85ce833e16a49176a54e935bf4366dbd22579e/Sketchbook-11.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48d14349201a4383b7e68478337d1c5c7065e337dce9f6e9005a581dceb1ea8b/Sketchbook-4.jpg" data-mid="143553664" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48d14349201a4383b7e68478337d1c5c7065e337dce9f6e9005a581dceb1ea8b/Sketchbook-4.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17155dd77773caf3bea7c32475d1fe87e533afeb9cc465481c5c36bfed70a5c3/Sketchbook-10.jpg" data-mid="143554195" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17155dd77773caf3bea7c32475d1fe87e533afeb9cc465481c5c36bfed70a5c3/Sketchbook-10.jpg" /> https://quincrumb.com/HDAARTV Tue, 24 May 2022 19:13:54 +0000 Quin Crumb https://quincrumb.com/HDAARTV H.D.A.A.R.T.V. (high definition adjustable aspect ratio television) The modern television is conceived of as a window into another world. A device to be looked through rather than examined in itself. In removing the TV’s original case and creating a new one out of plywood I have created a TV which becomes a spectacle in itself rather than simply a window through which to view spectacle. I have then placed that newly framed television within a frame which draws on a rich theatrical history. One in which the frame was celebrated and leveraged as a means to embellish the content within. The double framing of the TV is meant to create tension around what we understand as external and what we understand as essential to the TV. <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9cc133f5a2c8c6e16876dfba5732d8e07810ab3b2b3912f73db3f9d79b04bb9/TVdocumentation_compress.gif" data-mid="143551755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9cc133f5a2c8c6e16876dfba5732d8e07810ab3b2b3912f73db3f9d79b04bb9/TVdocumentation_compress.gif" /> <img width="2014" height="1343" width_o="2014" height_o="1343" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfdcab349a967b37310096d094eed8a7bc612d0448e79499cc9c3a93e0f444d8/tv-31_web.png" data-mid="143549386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfdcab349a967b37310096d094eed8a7bc612d0448e79499cc9c3a93e0f444d8/tv-31_web.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/974415198180aecd058aea0ccec306e8ce6cf07dace7d9882eb533c16558a2ab/bitii-1-6.jpg" data-mid="143548305" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/974415198180aecd058aea0ccec306e8ce6cf07dace7d9882eb533c16558a2ab/bitii-1-6.jpg" />