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Adam Huth

Designer Across Scales


Digital Product Design
UX/UI | Graphics
  1. Let’s Eat!
  2. Flipout
  3. Fungi on Foot
  4. Hondezvous
  5. Exclusion in Design
  6. Social Media Profile Redesign
  7. Digital Art & Other Fun Stuff

Experimental Design
Provocation | Speculation
  1. Design for Uncomfortable Consumption
  2. Fruit Face
  3. Vitals
  4. STAR & ARTS
  5. MUTO-21
  6. Fungi on Foot
  7. Smiles by Mail

Industrial Design
3D Modeling | Furniture
  1. Alka-Seltzer Academy
  2. Table I
  3. Table II
  4. Bar
  5. Bed 
  6. Electronics Mounts for Rocket

Art
Interventions | Sculpture
  1. Picnic
  2. Projection
  3. Handing Off: Art in Pandemic Times (A Virtual Mail Art Exhibition) 

About Me
  1. A designer across scales with experience in digital product design, speculative design, entrepreneurship, and art, with a unifying passion of creating unique experiences that spark joy, provoke questions, and make the world a more accessible place.
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1. Picnic


The sculpture, “Picnic”, casually sitting on the grass facing towards the waters of Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA


2021
Individual Installation
Public Art; Sculpture; Interventionist Art

Picnic was a pop-up art installation that explored the making and exhibiting of art during pandemic times. During the early stages of the pandemic, our longing for human connection grew even stronger, and the distance between us even greater. My goal for this project was to create a human-like proxy for social interaction. The project itself is a plaster of paris sculpture of a headless woman lounging on the grass. The work is titled “Picnic”, and a small placard with the name was placed next to the sculpture to provide context and an artistic lens for viewers. The sculpture provided the public a Covid-safe stranger with which they could spend their time and interact with, or, a place in which to interact with other strangers in public. The idealized version of this would be someone literally picnicking with the sculpture. While I did not witness anybody picnic with the sculpture, I saw people take photos of and touch the piece. I also witnessed a person sit close to the statue at night while smoking a cigarette, seemingly enjoying the presence of the body. This piece was my first public installation.

A park-goer stopping to take a picture of the sculpture while others around the lake picnic and relax themselves
My partner, Alexis, acting as the model for the form of the sculpture; She stayed still for nearly three hours as I wrapped her first with plastic wrap followed by multiple rolls of duct-tape
The “skin” of the sculpture after it was cut and peeled off of Alexis; as the “skin” was filled the form was filled with paper scraps, cardboard, and other clean “trash”
The form after being completely filled and mended
The form after being wrapped with multiple layers of plaster of paris soaked crinoline
Signage for the sculputure, placed in the grass next to the piece to provide context and an artistic lens through which to view the piece

Mark