Day 7 - Keep adding 'em up Some of you out there may not know I've been leading a dual life for a while now. Yep, a Jeckyll and Hyde. I'm an Industrial Designer for Texas Instruments by day, photographer of the best clients in the world by night and on the weekends. What's an industrial designer, you ask? I think it's best described as combination of art, engineering, and psychology. The artistic part is being able to visually conceptualize and communicate those concepts via sketching/computer rendering/model making/etc. The engineering part is knowing how to manufacture the design you create. The Psychology is understanding the (sometimes unspoken) needs people have and creating the tools for them to meet those needs. Blah, blah, blah... I'll skip the rest of the boring details. Here's a calculator I designed for TI. Basically I designed what it looks like, where the keys are located, artwork, color... the physical product. Who knew there was such an exciting thing right? Who doesn't want to design a calculator? It's kinda fun, though, to walk into a store and see them using it at the cash register. Unfortunately, the local Pottery Barn hasn't figured out how to calculate a discount for me on it yet.