Uni snow concepts

I started some of these concepts during my demos at the Swinburne open day exploring some configurations. after seeing more snow mobiles after heavy snow showers I could see a definite advantage to a closed in unit.

Natures speedforms

The freezing conditions and wind swept snow has created the most amazing ice sculptures I have seen on the mountain.

Freeeeezing

Its been very Icy up on the mountain

Swinburne Industrial Design Open Day

Yesterday I spent the day at Swinburnes Hawthorn campus for open day where I demonstrated all day digital sketching using a Wacom HD tablet with sketchbook and sketchbook designer as well as the use of the Wacom Inkling to prospective students and their parents and was surprised how many students had or were thinking of geting some sort of drawing tablet.

Snowjourn

Took a few days off from Mt Buller to ride with my son Darragh Walsh at Perisher near his home town Jindabyne Daz being sponsored by Nitro Snowboards I got to try out a new board and new outerwear.Check out Darraghs cool mancave.

Uni snow mobile

After viewing the current snowmobile design on Mt Buller which need to be de-snowed and de-iced I did some very quick concepts of totaly enclosed single person upright snow mobile concepts.

Wheel concept sketch

I did this quickly to demonstrate the use of sketchbook designer and sketch book pro for quick speed concept sketching...After 4-5 minutes I had an idea for a concept using sketchbook designer where I was able to use the symmetry tool to get the spoke spacing correct ...then I exported it as a tif into sketchbook which saved all the layers so I could play with it..... 15 minutes later I have an image I can paste on to a previous image to view the design concept