This Blog's First Industrial Design Post Is An Anti-Theft Lunch Bag... What Are *You* Thinking?

Sherwood Forlee is another scientist –turned-designer among apparently well camouflaged other closet-scientists out there (check this post on Ainley to see what I meant). He’s one of my favorite finds in industrial design, and has both his professional and independent work displayed at his website, skforlee.com

When I call out favorites it’s usually a combination of more than just talent and ‘good work’, there’s a dime a dozen of talented and hardworking designers out there, the ‘favorite’ factor also comes from character and being able to not compromise one’s true self creatively. On a an interesting topic, here’s a little on the designer quoted from his about part.

“Sherwood Forlee is a designer with no design or art education. Instead, he studied fluid dynamics and partial differential equations, and then barely managed to graduate. But graduate he did, and with a high-falutin' sounding title to boot: "Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer". Despite this, Sherwood calls himself a designer because it sounds hip and no one likes hanging around a nerd at a party.

Following graduation, Sherwood went to work as a product design engineer. After cutting his teeth at a few firms, Sherwood decided to see more of the world and set out on adventures that would lead him to Tokyo (where he was accosted by the yakuza for trying to sell homemade T-shirts on their territory), the Azores (where inclement weather stranded him for a few days without food in the wild), Zurich (where he was forced to climb a perilous mountain with two massive rental bikes atop his shoulders), and many other places. Today, Sherwood enjoys a more peaceful life in New York City working once again as a product designer.”

Also, this is the clever and humorous anti-theft lunchbag from his independent work. Forlee has a lot more impressive work you can check out, but this has gotten the most brownie points with peeps around me that I’ve shared his work with, so I’ve chosen it as the main pick from his work… Let’s just hope he never reads this. ☺
















































**photos via skforlee.com